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- Title
Geoengineering the Sublime: China and the Aesthetic State.
- Authors
RODENBIKER, Jesse
- Abstract
Geoengineering for aesthetic and utilitarian ends, this essay argues, is part and parcel of the banal operation of state power in contemporary China. In contrast with Kantian articulations of the sublime, turn-of-the-century thinkers like Zhang Jingsheng and contemporary Chinese politicians and scientists espouse an ecological sublime undergirded by mechanistic and utilitarian logics expressed through techniques of altering earth systems. Intervening in earth systems to produce an experience of the ecological sublime, therefore, operates as an aesthetic modality of power-one that positions the Chinese State as the mechanistic producer of beauty and utility in nature.
- Subjects
CHINA; AESTHETICS; ENVIRONMENTAL engineering; STATE power
- Publication
Made in China Journal, 2022, Vol 7, Issue 2, p138
- ISSN
2652-6352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.22459/mic.07.02.2022.15