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Silvia M. Lindtner is associate professor of information at the University of Michigan. She is the cofounder of Hacked Matter and associate director of the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing (ESC). Twitter @yunnia
Lindtner provides a thought-provoking and persuasive critique of neoliberal capitalism. The author's greatest achievement is - far beyond the Chinese case - to render visible and to powerfully question highly ambivalent narratives of progress and techno-solutionism, and the (often-unfulfilled) promises of intervention and happiness that these entail. ---Lena Kaufmann, China Quarterly
