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moreICCS WPS 13 From “Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier” to “Chip Foundry for the Borg”: Reflections on the U.S. – P.R.C. War and Taiwan’s Role in Technological Totalization
Author/Speaker｜Jon Douglas Solomon
Publication Date｜2019-09
Keywords｜Paul Virilio, Peter Button, Yuk Hui, translation, logistics, anthropological difference, liberalism, dual use technology, dystopia, Yellow Peril.
Abstract
This essay examines the dystopia of militarized technological totalization concealed by the competing dystopias that currently dominate the political imaginary in discussions related to East Asia. It provides a brief history of dual use technology, the outsourcing of IT production to East Asian states, and the global system of U.S. monetary imperialism, showing the links among the three. After charting out the cascade of effects due to Donald Trump’s Executive Order 13806 that sounded the beginning of the tech and trade war between the United States of America and the People’s Republic of China, the essay turns to a reading of Paul Virilio’s 1977 classic, Speed and Politics, to reconsider the role of anthropological difference in the looming catastrophe emblematized by autonomous weapons and biologistical supply chains with a life of their own. The essay ends with a reflection on the way in which the social relation called translation is being reduced to logistical imperatives that “lock in” a dystopian future.