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| Authors: | Amanda Lagerkvist: Department of Journalism, Media and Communication (JMK), Stockholm University, Sweden |
| Publication title: | Future Lost and Resumed: Media and the Spatialization of Time in Shanghai |
| Conference: | The ESF-LiU Conference Cities and Media: Cultural Perspectives on Urban Identities in a Mediatized World Vadstena, Sweden, 25–29 October, 2006 |
| Publication type: | Abstract and Fulltext |
| Issue: | 020 |
| Article No.: | 009 |
| Abstract: | The current resurgence of the Chinese mega city of Shanghai involves a radical restructuring of the urban fabric, infrastructure, economy and media culture. New Shanghai competes to become the information communication hub in the Asia-Pacific, and partly through the display of wide-ranging digitalization at the World exposition of 2010 and in the city, the municipal government has set its mind on once again detaining the future right here. In this paper I probe the question of how one place becomes continually endowed with futurity. Futurity, I argue, is in fact an essential part of a collective memory in the city: it is Shanghai’s genius loci. Moving from the Golden Age of modernity and cosmopolitanism of the 1920s and 30s, through the city under Communism, into the current global/digital city of Shanghai I inquire into they ways in which media and communication have been historically, and are at present, a backbone of the Shanghai imaginary. I further discuss how the future is both obsessively desired in Shanghai of today and at once under seizure since New Shanghai is, as much as it is a place of physical monumentality, an elusive and contradictory space of temporal co-existence as well as of hypermobility and hypermediation. |
| Language: | English |
| Year: | 2006 |
| No. of pages: | 18 |
| Pages: | 93–110 |
| Series: | Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings |
| ISSN (print): | 1650-3686 |
| ISSN (online): | 1650-3740 |
| File: | http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/020/009/ecp072009.pdf |
| Available: | 2007-03-06 |
| Publisher: | Linköping University Electronic Press, Linköpings universitet |
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