hysterical sublime
Fredric *Jameson's suggested term for a reformulated vision of the *sublime (in *Kant's sense) focused on technology rather than nature. Kant defined nature as sublime because it consistently exceeds the capacity of human concepts to grasp either its particularity or its generality. More practically, the caprices of nature (e.g. variable soil quality, water supply, and so on) are, as ... ...
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