Dachen-thesis outline
THESIS STATEMENT
This thesis will focus on combing the techno-infrastructure and local history of Chongqing and its surrounding southwest mountains, and try to expand narrative from multiple dimensions, taking the place as a sample to reveal the symbiotic relationship between its techno-reality and the nation-state and geo strategy.
BODY
Chapter 1. What is Ba-Shu?Notes on Wuxing (Five Phases) situating guide
1.1. Mountain forest, reservoir, and red Chongqing city 1.2. Archives from the Third Front Construction to the Western Development Strategy
Chapter 2. Great Rear-guard, border and inland: relations between port opening and
modern infrastructure
Chapter 3. submontane futurism
3.1. Ba salt,lithium,SkyShuttle system 3.2. A 土主 (tu zhu,Lord of the Soil and the Ground)who lives in a bunker,and the pre-life of AI city