(A)Futurism
a discursive archive of Asian Futurisms; submissions welcome
When maps (hisotrical ones showing different broaders) become abstraction: barcodes to survive censorship.
Promos from the “quantum reading method” where children acquire speed reading abilities while blindfolded.
“Engineer Zhao Shuxin has been promoted and clones a robot in his image to attend his meetings, resulting in comic situations. “
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346810/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/13/the-future-of-americas-contest-with-china
Read for some particularly illuminating passages on the fight and fear over technology.
Comics exploring virtual emoji-masks that fully mediate human communication—culturally specific renderings from gostoryculture and Evgeny Zubkov.