The mirage of China
By: Xin Liu
Series: Culture and Politics/Politics and Culture -- v. 5; Culture and politics/politics and culture -- v. 5.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780857456113
Subjects: Globalization; Economic conditions; Social change; Capitalism
Description: "Today's world is one marked by the signs of digital capitalism and global capitalist expansion, and China is increasingly being integrated into this global system of production and consumption. As a result, China's immediate material impact is now felt almost everywhere in the world; however, the significance and process of this integration is far from understood. This study shows how the a priori categories of statistical reasoning came to be reborn and relived in the People's Republic -- as essential conditions for the possiblity of a new mode of knowledge and governance. From the ruins of the Maoist revolution China has risen through a mode of quantitative self-objectification" -- Publisher's description, p. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 200 - 206) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Moral mathematics; title: 1. The mentality of governance; title: 2. The facticity of social facts; title: Pt. 2. Statistics, metaphysics, and ethics; title: 3. Discipline and punish; title: 4. The specter of Marx; title: Pt. 3. Reason and revolution; title: 5. The taming of chance; title: 6. Interiorization; title: 7. Exteriorization.