Aaron Su
Biographic Data
| ID | 3619002 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aaron Su |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aaron |
| FAMILY NAME | Su |
| SIGNATURE | SU A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8144-9237 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
AI as pharmakon: Authoring Indigenous futures in Taiwan
In struggles for Indigenous sovereignty in Taiwan, artificial intelligence has emerged as a pharmakon—something that is both remedy and poison. This is evident in Taiwan's Trustworthy AI Dialogue Engine (TAIDE), a project that uses large language models to revitalize endangered Indigenous languages. Here, we can see the profoundly contradictory effects of AI as it enables cultural and political revitalization, thus contributing to Indigenous futu…
Inscrutable futures: Biotechnology, architecture, and planetary ecology in late industrial China
Haunted Modernities: Gender, Memory, and Placemaking in Postindustrial Taiwan, written by Anru Lee
Publics, anthropologies, and public anthropologies
Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China by Elsa L. Fan
Reviewed by: Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China by Elsa L. Fan Aaron Su Elsa L. Fan. Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 216 pp. When strategies to streamline global health resources result in narrow, magic-bullet testing solutions, what meaningful interventions and social relations are enacted or foreclosed? Resonating with contemporary debates around…
The Picture as a Moving Image: Visual Politics in Contemporary China
For some longtime locals in Shanghai, China, street propaganda’s periodic renovations muddle the distinction between still and moving images. When the cyclic changing of propaganda pieces began to acquire filmic qualities for those who bore witness, they made recourse to these narrative and episodic properties to critique their experiences of political instability. Their discourses implicate media forms as genres of experiencing political transfo…
A Space for Laughter in Contemporary China
A Space for Laughter in Contemporary China
The Picture as a Moving Image: Visual Politics in Contemporary China
For some longtime locals in Shanghai, China, street propaganda’s periodic renovations muddle the distinction between still and moving images. When the cyclic changing of propaganda pieces began to acquire filmic qualities for those who bore witness, they made recourse to these narrative and episodic properties to critique their experiences of political instability. Their discourses implicate media forms as genres of experiencing political transfo…
Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China by Elsa L. Fan
Reviewed by: Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China by Elsa L. Fan Aaron Su Elsa L. Fan. Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 216 pp. When strategies to streamline global health resources result in narrow, magic-bullet testing solutions, what meaningful interventions and social relations are enacted or foreclosed? Resonating with contemporary debates around…
Publics, anthropologies, and public anthropologies
Inscrutable futures: Biotechnology, architecture, and planetary ecology in late industrial China
Haunted Modernities: Gender, Memory, and Placemaking in Postindustrial Taiwan, written by Anru Lee
AI as pharmakon: Authoring Indigenous futures in Taiwan
In struggles for Indigenous sovereignty in Taiwan, artificial intelligence has emerged as a pharmakon—something that is both remedy and poison. This is evident in Taiwan's Trustworthy AI Dialogue Engine (TAIDE), a project that uses large language models to revitalize endangered Indigenous languages. Here, we can see the profoundly contradictory effects of AI as it enables cultural and political revitalization, thus contributing to Indigenous futu…
China (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works) · Citation (2 works) · History (2 works)