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Professor Lindtner will discuss her new book on China's shifting place in the global political economy of technology production. Drawing on more than a decade of research in experimental work spaces and in key sites of technology investment and industrial production, Prototype Nation offers a rich transnational analysis of how the promise of democratized innovation and entrepreneurial life has shaped China’s governance and global image. (Use code PNSL for 30% Prototype Nation through 12/15/20.)

Silvia Lindtner (she/her) is Associate Professor at the University of Michigan in the School of Information and Associate Director of the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing (ESC). She is a founding member of Precarity Lab, researching insecurity, vulnerability, and social and cultural exclusion that digital platforms reproduce, and a co-founder of the China research collective Hacked Matter, dedicated to critically investigating processes of technology innovation, urban design, and production cultures in China. Lindtner's research interests include cultures and politics of technology innovation and entrepreneurship as well as shifts in tech labor, industry, policy, and governance. Lindtner draws from more than ten years of multi-sited ethnographic research, with a particular focus on China's shifting role in global tech production, unpacking how enduring colonialism, racism, and sexism shape the global political economy of technology production, economic development, and science and technology policy.