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Topics covered include Chinese/Sinophone identity in the digital age; the challenges and opportunities of digital media, including the impact of censorship; decentralization versus the hegemonic exercise of cultural memory in China and beyond; cultural memory as imagined nostalgia in consumer culture; and the power of social media and popular culture in identity formation. Contributors Fangdai Chen, Yedong Chen, Tarryn Li-Min Chun, Rossella Ferrari, Chieh-ting Hsieh, Liang Luo, Michael O'Krent, Xiaofei Tian, Laura Vermeeren, David Der-wei Wang, Zhiyi Yang, Michelle Ye

Topics covered include trauma, political violence, and the memorializations of trauma; how French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan’s concept of “passage à l’acte” can be used to analyze the dissolution of social bonds and the emergence of violence in contemporary societies; and the emergence of necropolitics, necrocapitalism, Afropessimism, and “Lacan noir” on the socio-politico-cultural scene. Contributors Gustavo Dessal, Stefan Ecks, Peter Goodrich, Marina Gržini¿, Rosaura Martinez-Ruiz, Tracy McNulty, Elizabeth Stewart, Calvin Warren, Anthony Wexler