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... The introduction historicizes the entanglement of both deepening poverty and a widely felt sense of boredom in postcommunist Romania. In the communist era, homelessness did not exist as an official social category as state guarantees assured a baseline subsistence. It was only after the fall...

... Chapter 4 looks at how Silicon Valley imperialism builds on Cold War imaginaries while disavowing its own technofascist past. It explores the role of IBM in powering Romania’s presocialist genocidal project while also looking at the company’s postsocialist incursion aimed at capitalizing...

...Techno Frictions and Fantasies Chapter 4 looks at how Silicon Valley imperialism builds on Cold War imaginaries while disavowing its own technofascist past. It explores the role of IBM in powering Romania’s presocialist genocidal project while also looking at the company’s postsocialist...

... Chapter 1 examines the forms of space-time expansion that are endemic to globalization. The chapter contextualizes the diminishing economic activity of low-skilled workers in Romania by contrasting the idleness of communist-era breadlines with the boredom of homelessness and unemployment...

... This chapter brings the intersection of precarity, aging, and affect into view by examining the prevalence of pensioners using homeless services. The chapter shows how reforms designed to integrate Romania into the global economy negatively impacted the value of government pensions, which...

... stereotype of the Ecological Indian. Using an example of a painting by Fritz Scholder that traveled to Romania in 1972, the author connects the fraught history of United States treaties with Native nations to the fresh betrayals of the Indian Termination policy, arguing that these circumstances conditioned...

... Chapter 5 explores socialist and postsocialist technoculture in Romania, focusing on both retrospective and speculative accounts of what transpired and what could have transpired beyond the purview of the state, capitalist transition, and the Siliconized present. Against a backdrop...

... While traversing landscapes of tech-induced gentrification in Cluj, Romania, Silicon Valley Imperialism begins by illustrating convergent processes of Siliconization, property reprivatization, and racial banishment. It also investigates technological predation by Western companies that seek...

... Fritz Scholder’s paintings conjured the United States’ betrayal of its treaty obligations to Native nations before diverse publics abroad in 1972. Disgusted by the US government’s propaganda, the artist defected from a tour in Romania to visit Dracula’s castle and paint a little-known Indian...