Dear all, Please allow me to share the announcement of the final three sessions of Hypertextes, the online book club of the Centre for Internet and Society of CNRS. All three of them will be in English, and one is tomorrow afternoon! Hoping to see you there! Francesca --- *Inscription* : https://evento.renater.fr/survey/hypertextes-7oi2n9xz *Jeudi 10 avril 2025, 16h à 17h* *Ya-Wen Lei* (Harvard University), pour son ouvrage *The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China* (Princeton University Press, 2023). Sa présentation sera discutée par *Séverine Arsène*, politologue et sinologue, chercheuse associée au médialab (Sciences Po). Since the mid-2000s, the Chinese state has increasingly shifted away from labor-intensive, export-oriented manufacturing to a process of socioeconomic development centered on science and technology. Ya-Wen Lei traces the contours of this techno-developmental regime and its resulting form of techno-state capitalism, telling the stories of those whose lives have been transformed — for better and worse — by China’s rapid rise to economic and technological dominance. Drawing on groundbreaking fieldwork and a wealth of in-depth interviews with managers, business owners, workers, software engineers, and local government officials, Lei describes the vastly unequal values assigned to economic sectors deemed “high-end” versus “low-end,” and the massive expansion of technical and legal instruments used to measure and control workers and capital. She shows how China’s rise has been uniquely shaped by its time-compressed development, the complex relationship between the nation’s authoritarian state and its increasingly powerful but unruly tech companies, and an ideology that fuses nationalism with high modernism, technological fetishism, and meritocracy. Some have compared China’s extraordinary transformation to America’s Gilded Age. This provocative book reveals how it is more like a gilded cage, one in which the Chinese state and tech capital are producing rising inequality and new forms of social exclusion. *+ d'infos sur cette séance* : https://cis.cnrs.fr/hypertextes-ya-wen-lei/ *Lundi 28 avril 2025, 16h à 17h* *Quinn Slobodian* (Boston University), , pour son livre *Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right* (Princeton University Press, 2025). Sa présentation sera discutée par *Théo Bourgeron* (University of Edinburgh) et *Apolline Taillandier* (University of Cambridge and University of Bonn). *+ d'infos sur cette séance* : https://cis.cnrs.fr/hypertextes-quinn-slobodian/ *Lundi 12 mai 2025, 18h30 à 19h30* *Thomas S. Mullaney* (Stanford University), , pour son ouvrage The Chinese Computer. A Global History of the Information Age (MIT Press, 2024). Sa présentation sera discutée par *Camille Paloque-Bergès* (HT2S, Conservatoire national des arts et métiers). *+ d'infos sur cette séance* : https://cis.cnrs.fr/hypertextes-thomas-s-mullaney/ -- Francesca Musiani, Ph.D. Directrice de recherche | Research Professor, CNRS <http://www.cnrs.fr> Directrice | Director, Centre Internet et Société <https://cis.cnrs.fr/> (UPR 2000 CNRS) Directrice adjointe | Deputy Director, GDR Internet, IA et Société <https://cis.cnrs.fr/presentation-gdr/> (GDR 2091 CNRS) I'm also associated with: i3-CSI <http://www.csi.ensmp.fr/>, MINES ParisTech | Internet Governance Lab <https://internetgovernancelab.org>, American University I co-lead projects: DIGISOV <https://digisov.org> | TIGre <https://netgouv.hypotheses.org/projet-technologie-internet-et-gouvernance-ti...> I help co-editing: Internet Policy Review <https://policyreview.info> | RESET <https://journals.openedition.org/reset/> I'm an advisor for: ISOC France <https://www.isoc.fr> | ANSSI <https://www.ssi.gouv.fr/agence/rayonnement-scientifique/conseil-scientifique...> | IAMCR <https://iamcr.org/governance/int-council> I'm here on the Web (FR <https://cis.cnrs.fr/francesca-musiani/> | EN <https://cis.cnrs.fr/en/francesca_musiani/>), including my publications.