Grace Kwan’s Reviews > Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media > Status Update

“mathematical models of probability and investment strategies based on extrapolation are forms of speculative fiction that project finance capitalism’s visions of futurity onto the world … does techno-orientalist register anxieties about finance capitalism, or does finance capitalism use techno-orientalist as a basis for its extrapolations of futurity?

this is so good & speaks to themes ive been thinking & writing about all year. really needed this!