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Patriotic Aesthetics as Labour:
Wuheqilin and the Making of Nationalist Affects in China’s Digital Economy
The essay argues that in China’s digital economy, patriotic aesthetics on social media, taking Wuheqilin as a case, recast creative and emotional participation as nationalist labour, where platform logics and affective governance obscure exploitation by reframing it as moral duty.
Date: Dec 2025
Type: Final essay (MA coursework, A+)
Length: 1556 words
Keywords: digital labour, patriotic aesthetics, Chinese social media, affective governance, platform metrics, Wuheqilin
Scattered Authorship, Centred Responsibility:
Rethinking Generative AI in Creative Industries
This essay argues that generative AI does not kill the author but scatters authorship across XR pipelines, online platforms and academic publishing, demanding a renewed, responsibility-centred view of human agency in creative work.
Date: Nov 2025
Type: Video essay (MA coursework, A)
Length: 741 words
Keywords: generative AI, authorship, ‘death of the author’, XR production, anthropocentrism
The Dragonfly's Eyes:
Multiple Gaze in The Logic of Power and the Concealment of Subjectivity
This thesis argues, through a close reading of Dragonfly Eyes, that subjectivity is not secured through self-affirmation but is continuously disciplined and depleted by a gaze/surveillance regime structured by modernity and patriarchy, ultimately making self-assurance impossible.
Date: May 2023
Type: Master's thesis (Master of Fine Arts)
Length: Main text: 104 pp.; incl. appendices: 182 pp.
Keywords: Xu Bing, Dragonfly’s Eyes, subjectivity criticism, patriarchy, logic of power
Length: Length: Main text: 104 pp.; incl. appendices: 182 pp.
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