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

Environment and Planning D Society and Space 2026

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Authors: Nassim Parvin
DOI: 10.1177/02637758251410827
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Abstract

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.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Utopian Dystopian and Speculative Fiction Cultural Studies and Postmodernism Digital Education and Society

Publication details

Journal / source
Environment and Planning D Society and Space
Volume
44
Issue
1
Pages
183–185
Publication date
5 January 2026
Language
EN