(A)Futurism

a discursive archive of Asian Futurisms; submissions welcome

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https://vimeo.com/375786001

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http://peachblossomspring.art

世外桃源 The Peach Spring Beyond This World

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https://scroll.in/article/959364/the-aarogya-setu-app-endorsed-by-modi-to-track-covid-19-cases-could-ramp-up-government-surveillance

The Aarogya Setu app endorsed by Modi to track Covid-19 cases could ramp up government surveillance

A research paper details privacy right concerns related to the app.

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How Alibaba built China's 'health code' system · TechNode

An article from a Chinese engineering blog reveals details of how China's health code system was built, and how it works.

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Player’s drawing of “ahegao” in Half Life: Alyx

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/A7CrYJ15iM0WAm4Kt7Ddlg

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When maps (hisotrical ones showing different broaders) become abstraction: barcodes to survive censorship.

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Promos from the “quantum reading method” where children acquire speed reading abilities while blindfolded.

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David Beckham’s Tattoos censored on Chinese Central Television channels.

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https://idp.nature.com/transit?redirect_uri=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02937-2&code=1b6e5e41-18f3-4fd0-9a43-fc0b59f656a8

China: How science made a superpower

Shellen Wu traces the rise of the dominant force in science, in the second of a series of essays on the ways in which the past 150 years hav

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“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/

Dislocation (1986) - IMDb

Directed by Jianxin Huang. With Zifeng Liu, Hong Mu, Feihu Sun, Kun Yang. Engineer Zhao Shuxin has been promoted and clones a robot in his

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Electronic Gods and Other Folkloric Practices

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Sh4YGSA5ol61d1joUKufmA

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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.

The Future of America’s Contest with China

Washington is in an intensifying standoff with Beijing. Which one will fundamentally shape the twenty-first century?

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ancestry money adapted for the US clientele

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Comics exploring virtual emoji-masks that fully mediate human communication—culturally specific renderings from gostoryculture and Evgeny Zubkov.

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Back to kaleidoscopic futures at the 1970 Osaka Expo

Relive the glory of the 1970 Osaka Expo, complete with space frames, Metabolism, inflatables, and geodesic domes

Relive the glory of the 1970 Osaka Expo, complete with space frames, Metabolism, inflatables, and geodesic domes

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Marx, Anime, Fantasy

China's Young Marx Anime Sparks Philosophical Debate, Criticism, and Gay Fan-Fiction

"The Leader" is a creative attempt at educating future comrades, but it might need better production and dialogue to reach its target audien

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“Alibaba’s system monitors hog activity and allows farmers to track the swine in real time, the company said in a statement. It would then prescribe an exercise plan to improve their health. Its marketing video shows pigs running in the woods and playing with a ball. Alibaba said Tequ Group, a large pig farming company based in the southwestern province of Sichuan, uses the technology. Tequ didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Pig facial recognition works the same way as human facial recognition, the companies say. Scanners and software take in the bristles, the snout, the eyes and ears. The features are mapped. Pigs don’t all look alike when you know what to look for, they said.

“It’s just like how a human face is different from others,” said Mr. He, of Yingzi.

The pigs don’t always cooperate. Yingzi, which introduced its products commercially last year, uses video to capture them in motion.”

China’s Tech Firms Are Mapping Pig Faces

As a devastating disease afflicts the country’s swine, companies are scrambling to roll out facial and voice recognition and other unprove