Liebe Kolleg*innen, hier der Registrierungslink für eine englischsprachige Buchvorstellung von Kai Strittmatter per Zoom am Mittwoch 6. April 2022 abends um 20:45 Uhr (in den USA 11:45 AM Pacific Time): https://usfca.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PieajOXTS-qwZLZo3DOu9g We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China’s Surveillance State The USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies welcomes Kai Strittmatter to discuss his book "We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China’s Surveillance State". China’s strongman Xi Jinping is the most powerful Chinese leader in decades, and he rules over a China that is stronger than it has been for centuries. China’s authoritarianism is updating itself with the tools of the 21st century. China is staking more than any other country on information technology, on big data and artificial intelligence (AI) to create steering mechanisms that will catapult its economy into the future and make its apparatus crisis-proof. The country intends to use this technology to create the most perfect surveillance state the world has ever seen. In this talk, Strittmatter will take the audience inside this digital reinvention of dictatorship—the motivations that lie behind it and the mechanisms that power it. He will discuss the now-famous social credit system, with the internalization of control as one of its main goals and how predictive policing based on Big Data and AI has turned the region of Xinjiang into a high tech laboratory for China. Beste Grüße Martin Woesler