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