Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. The Present Futurity 1
4. Part I Labor Reconfigurations
5. 1 Working Futures after Asians 23
6. 2 Everything Everywhere All at Once 39
7. 3 Chinese Commodities 51
8. Part II Racialization as Technology
9. 4 Plastinated Vitruvian Man, the Datafication of Race, and Transracial Transfer in Westworld and Altered Carbon 67
10. 5 Outsiders Within 83
11. 6 On Forms of the Black Box 100
12. Part III Sinofuturism
13. 7 Infrastructure and/as Mediation 121
14. 8 Techno-Orientalis tDeflections 137
15. 9Techno-Futurehistory and the Sojourners of Global China 153
16. Part IV Machinic Subjects
17. 10 Sacrificial Clones 173
18. 11 Assembling Mitski 189
19. Part V Extensions
20. 12 Asian Solarpunk 205
21. 13 Animated Bodies 219
22. 14 Settler Orientalism, Asian American Techno-Environmentalism 235
23. 15 The Alchemized Dis/abled Body as Recuperative Site in Fullmetal Alchemist 249
24. Part VI OptimisticFutures
25. 16 Recovering Asian American Futures in the Marvel Cinematic Universe 267
26. 17 Looking for Asianfuturism 281
27. 18 The Queer Techno-Orientalist Aesthetics of Disney’s Big Hero 6 298
28. Marketsof Techno-Orientalist Critique 315
29. Acknowledgments 325
30. Bibliography 327
31. Notes on Contributors 361
32. Index 367