China’s data platforms have not yet been given novelistic treatment
Evidence
Eggers’s novel is only the latest in a long line of imaginative critiques of corporate life, starting perhaps with Kafk a, but it gains a particular force by having been written in San Francisco, close to the physical location of the power appropriations and work cultures that Eggers dissects. China’s data platforms have yet to attract a novelistic treatment.
— Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 1122
Categorization
SEED: A gap in literary coverage — an essay or story angle: the Chinese data economy as untold literary territory.
FICTION: The observation that China’s data platforms lack a novelistic treatment is a plausible spark for that missing novel.