Kindly funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond

Co-organized with Zeno Leonie (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.socia) & Vassily Klimentov (University of Zurich)

Sure is! So cool you remembered the ISA talk (and mentioned it in the elevator, haha)

Check out the other articles in this great special section on "Making Sense of the US-China Tech War" with @profbode.bsky.social, @nikeretzmann.bsky.social and others

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The tech war is not just any arena of bilateral competition; it’s about how societies imagine themselves and their futures.
We need a more nuanced view of tech’s cultural, social, and political role in great power rivalry.
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I show how "sociotechnical imaginaries"—shared visions of past, present, and future and technologies' role in it—shape U.S. discourse, linking tech’s risks to rivals to justify a security-driven agenda.
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I'm going with Billy Mattern's "Why `Soft Power' Isn't So Soft: Representational Force and the Sociolinguistic Construction of Attraction in World Politics" from 2005! Brilliant article!