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Drones · ShenzhenImagine this scenario: you ordered takeout during lunch rush hour, but the delivery bros were overbooked, so a drone dropped from the sky to deliver your meal; on your commute, while ground traffic was jammed, flying cars allowed you to take an ‘air taxi’ to work … These scenes seemingly out of science fiction movies will become part of people’s daily lives in the era of the ‘low-altitude economy’ [低空经济]. This invitation to envision an aerial fu…Read Article
City in the Sky: Drones, Shenzhen, and the ‘Low-Altitude Economy’
Li Qiang · ChinaChina has officially broken ground on what is set to become the world’s largest hydroelectric power project, located in the Tibet Autonomous Region. The multibillion-yuan initiative – costing an estimated 1.2 trillion yuan ($167 billion) – is designed to generate electricity for China’s coastal economic hubs while strengthening Beijing’s grip on the remote and politically […] The post China launches massive hydropower project to power coastal ci…See the Story
China Launches Massive Hydropower Project to Power Coastal Cities and Cement Regional Integration
China · ChinaThis essay is written precisely so that it could be dismissed. —Paul Mann (1991: 141) Gary Gexi Zhang (2021) first coined the term ‘Sinopessimism’ as a speculative counterpart to Afropessimism, imagining a future in which China becomes the object, rather than the subject, of global racialisation. While Zhang’s usage was primarily a thought experiment, […]Read Article
On Sinopessimism, or Junkies of Futility
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