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On Social Sadism
by China Miéville | December 17, 201…China Miéville is a founding editor of Salvage. He is the author of various works of fiction and non-fiction, including The City & the City and London’s Overthrow. His latest book is October: The Story of the Russian Revolution. He is curre…
China Miéville
writer · 3 mentions across 2 readings
In this course
China Miéville is a novelist and cultural critic whose work engages with how political structures and power operate through narrative and metaphor—concerns directly relevant to understanding the cultural dimensions of digital systems and information warfare. In the course readings, he appears as a founding editor of *Salvage*, a journal that theorizes social systems and contemporary forms of domination, positioning him as a voice on the cultural and ideological operations that intersect with the technological frameworks the seminar examines. His framing of social sadism and systemic violence provides conceptual tools for thinking through how AI, memetics, and hybrid warfare operate not just as technical phenomena but as embedded cultural logics.
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