Aesthetics and pastoral imagery substitute for actual justification in engineered utopias

Evidence

Burris is accompanied on his visit by a philosophy professor named Castle, a grumbling man who is supposed to represent old-guard academia. When Castle accuses Frazier of being a fascist despot, Frazier responds not with an actual argument but with a pastoral image: Frazier… — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 180

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Artistic categories for Bloch become modes of Utopian realization at the ontological level — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 290; Postmodern nature imagery memorializes a nature already systemically eliminated by capitalism — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 396; Immanent, immersive theory aesthetics abandon critique and thereby affirm capitalism’s permanence — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 300 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Artistic categories for Bloch become modes of Utopian realization at the ontological level — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 290; Postmodern nature imagery memorializes a nature already systemically eliminated by capitalism — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 396; Immanent, immersive theory aesthetics abandon critique and thereby affirm capitalism’s permanence — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 300 (+4 more)