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Aesthetic Redemption: Psychedelia, Film, and Walter Benjamin’s Sensory Revolution
… As such, we explore Benjamin’s revolutionary aesthetic theory which seeks the reversal of these erosive capitalist forces and the redemption of the human sensory system. It is through this aesthetic redemption that Benjamin posits the transcendence of the capitalist mode of production. This …
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The "sent-down" vision: poetics and politics of Zhiqing literature in post-Mao China
… era. Chapter 5 investigates Zhang Chengzhi’s aesthetic redemption of spirituality. I maintain that Zhang Chengzhi’s twisted reclamation of the Red Guard spirit and his assertion of religious belief ultimately counteracts the post-Mao society that is saturated with materialism and consumerism.