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