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Review of silicon valley imperialism: Techno fantasies and frictions in postsocialist times

Nassim Parvin

Environment and Planning D: society and space2026https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758251410827article
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This review examines Erin McElroy's Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times and its critique of Silicon Valley imperialism as it intersects with Romania's socialist past. I center my review on how the book illuminates technocapitalist logics, reframes ingenuity under precarity as collective experimentation, and imagines futures beyond dominant technological and political formations. In this way, McElroy's book invites us to dwell in interstices where resistance and reinvention become blueprints for living otherwise.

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@article{nassim2026,
  title        = {{Review of silicon valley imperialism: Techno fantasies and frictions in postsocialist times}},
  author       = {Nassim Parvin},
  journal      = {Environment and Planning D: society and space},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758251410827},
}

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