[Air-L] Hypertextes (CIS-CNRS online book club): three sessions in English, one tomorrow April 10

[Francesca Musiani]

Dear all,


Please allow me to share the announcement of the final three sessions of
the year for Hypertextes, the online book club of the Centre for Internet
and Society of CNRS. All three of them will be in English, and one is
tomorrow afternoon!


Hoping to see you there!

Francesca


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*Inscription* : https://evento.renater.fr/survey/hypertextes-7oi2n9xz


*Jeudi 10 avril 2025, 16h à 17h*

*Ya-Wen Lei* (Harvard University),  pour son ouvrage *The Gilded Cage:
Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China* (Princeton
University Press, 2023). Sa présentation sera discutée par *Séverine Arsène*,
politologue et sinologue, chercheuse associée au médialab (Sciences Po).

Since the mid-2000s, the Chinese state has increasingly shifted away from
labor-intensive, export-oriented manufacturing to a process of
socioeconomic development centered on science and technology. Ya-Wen Lei
traces the contours of this techno-developmental regime and its resulting
form of techno-state capitalism, telling the stories of those whose lives
have been transformed — for better and worse — by China’s rapid rise to
economic and technological dominance.

Drawing on groundbreaking fieldwork and a wealth of in-depth interviews
with managers, business owners, workers, software engineers, and local
government officials, Lei describes the vastly unequal values assigned to
economic sectors deemed “high-end” versus “low-end,” and the massive
expansion of technical and legal instruments used to measure and control
workers and capital. She shows how China’s rise has been uniquely shaped by
its time-compressed development, the complex relationship between the
nation’s authoritarian state and its increasingly powerful but unruly tech
companies, and an ideology that fuses nationalism with high modernism,
technological fetishism, and meritocracy.

Some have compared China’s extraordinary transformation to America’s Gilded
Age. This provocative book reveals how it is more like a gilded cage, one
in which the Chinese state and tech capital are producing rising inequality
and new forms of social exclusion.

*+ d'infos sur cette séance* : https://cis.cnrs.fr/hypertextes-ya-wen-lei/

*Lundi 28 avril 2025, 16h à 17h*

*Quinn Slobodian* (Boston University), , pour son livre *Hayek’s Bastards:
Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right* (Princeton University
Press, 2025). Sa présentation sera discutée par *Théo Bourgeron* (University
of Edinburgh) et *Apolline Taillandier* (University of Cambridge and
University of Bonn).

*+ d'infos sur cette séance* :
https://cis.cnrs.fr/hypertextes-quinn-slobodian/


*Lundi 12 mai 2025, 18h30 à 19h30*

*Thomas S. Mullaney* (Stanford University), , pour son ouvrage The Chinese
Computer. A Global History of the Information Age (MIT Press, 2024). Sa
présentation sera discutée par *Camille Paloque-Bergès* (HT2S,
Conservatoire national des arts et métiers).

*+ d'infos sur cette séance* :
https://cis.cnrs.fr/hypertextes-thomas-s-mullaney/



-- 
Francesca Musiani, Ph.D.

Directrice de recherche | Research Professor, CNRS <http://www.cnrs.fr>
Directrice | Director, Centre Internet et Société <https://cis.cnrs.fr/> (UPR
2000 CNRS)
Directrice adjointe | Deputy Director, GDR Internet, IA et Société
<https://cis.cnrs.fr/presentation-gdr/> (GDR 2091 CNRS)

I'm also associated with: i3-CSI <http://www.csi.ensmp.fr/>, MINES ParisTech
 | Internet Governance Lab <https://internetgovernancelab.org>, American
University
I co-lead projects: DIGISOV <https://digisov.org> | TIGre
<https://netgouv.hypotheses.org/projet-technologie-internet-et-gouvernance-tigre-dim-stcn>
I help co-editing: Internet Policy Review <https://policyreview.info> |
RESET <https://journals.openedition.org/reset/>
I'm an advisor for: ISOC France <https://www.isoc.fr> | ANSSI
<https://www.ssi.gouv.fr/agence/rayonnement-scientifique/conseil-scientifique-des-liens-resserres-avec-le-monde-academique/>
 | IAMCR <https://iamcr.org/governance/int-council>

I'm here on the Web (FR <https://cis.cnrs.fr/francesca-musiani/> | EN
<https://cis.cnrs.fr/en/francesca_musiani/>), including my publications.