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100 1  McElroy, Erin,|d1982-|eauthor. 
245 10 Silicon Valley imperialism :|btechno fantasies & frictions
       in postsocialist times /|cErin McElroy. 
264  1 Durham, North Carolina ;|bDuke University Press,|c[2024] 
300    xi, 280 pages :|billustrations ;|c23 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (page [237]-268) and 
       index. 
520    In Silicon Valley Imperialism, Erin McElroy maps the 
       processes of gentrification, racial dispossession, and 
       economic predation that drove the development of Silicon 
       Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area and how that logic 
       has become manifest in postsocialist Romania. Drawing on 
       ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in Romania 
       and the United States, McElroy exposes the mechanisms 
       through which the appeal of Silicon Valley 
       technocapitalism devours space and societies, displaces 
       residents, and generates extreme income inequality in 
       order to expand its reach. In Romania, dreams of 
       privatization updated fascist and anti-Roma pasts and 
       socialist-era underground computing practices. At the same
       time, McElroy accounts for the ways Romanians are 
       resisting Silicon Valley capitalist logics, where 
       anticapitalist and anti-imperialist activists and 
       protesters build on socialist-era worldviews not to 
       restore state socialism but rather to establish more just 
       social formations. Attending to the violence of Silicon 
       Valley imperialism, McElroy reveals technocapitalism as an
       ultimately unsustainable model of rapacious economic and 
       geographic growth. 
650  0 Captialism|zCalifornia|zSanta Clara Valley (Santa Clara 
       County)|xHistory. 
650  0 High technology industries|zCalifornia|zSanta Clara Valley
       (Santa Clara County)|xHistory. 
650  0 High technology industries|zRomania|xHistory. 
650  0 Technocracy|zRomania|xHistory. 
651  0 Palo Alto (Calif.)|xEconomic conditions|xHistory. 
651  0 Romania|xEconomic conditions|xHistory. 
651  0 Romania|xSocial conditions|xHistory.