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===Welcome to the 2010 Chinese Expo in Shanghai, signifying its status as the "next great world city." Spanning over 5.28 square kilometers with 246 countries all situated in a unit-based spatial imaginary, the Expo was officially articulated as an extension of China's "harmonious world" that seeks to integrate all nations into a holistic celestial order of one-worldness – as a symbol of Chinese rising greatness, classifying both time and space to restore its place as the origin of civilization. Finally we achieve our dream: we live in the Hell of the Same, a cybernetic landscape of depravity with no meaning. China disappears…===

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(Astrid H.M. Nordin [Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University], "Time, Space and Multiplicity in China's Harmonious World", 2012, The University of Manchester Library, https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/uk-ac-man-scw:186417, pages 135-149) We have seen how China's rise is commonly described in terms of inevitable destiny because AND the world by way of reading it through the work of Jean Baudrillard.

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(Astrid H.M. Nordin [Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University], "Time, Space and Multiplicity in China's Harmonious World", 2012, The University of Manchester Library, https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/uk-ac-man-scw:186417, pages 149-168) TAKING BAUDRILLARD TO THE FAIR Above, I have examined different ways in which China AND The Expo is us: our bodies, our dreams, our future.

===The will to transparent geopolitics is self-defeating. Information is futile – the attempt to render the whole world transparent transposes the global way of war on the level of representation. The moment geopolitics appears, it immediately disappears, swamped by media indeterminacy. This confusion produces constant implosive violence as we attempt to impose meaning onto the map of the globe. We cannot but subject the world to absolute 'truthiness.'===

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Ryan E. Artrip, Doctoral Student, ASPECT, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and Francois Debrix, professor of political science at Virginia Polytechnical Institute, "The Digital Fog of War: Baudrillard and the Violence of Representation," Volume 11, Number 2 (May, 2014) The story that needs to be told is thus not about the undoubtedly deplorable " AND immune systems and our capacities to resist" (2003; our italics).

===One attempt to doom Chinese radicalism is that of the 'Great Firewall,' a complementary strategy of media bombardment and 'ideaotainement' alongside massive censorship of any word or text deemed subversive. The cyberscape has been 'harmonized' in response to specific words.===

===Yet in the face of this, the online culture known as恶 搞 (Ègǎo) effectively plays slightly on these linguistic codes to subvert meaning, converting the critique of Chinese harmony and harmonization with the word 'river crab,' forming a poetic revolution of meaning inflection in the effusive play with language.===

===It is this strategy of Egao that our affirmative adopts – turning debate into the bait for the trap of its own making, an act onco-operativity giving rise to a cancerous metastases that the system has no choice but to destroy, yet cannot destroy without destroying itself – the great firewall has paradoxically been great firewalled.===

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(Astrid H.M. Nordin [Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University], "Time, Space and Multiplicity in China's Harmonious World", 2012, The University of Manchester Library, https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/uk-ac-man-scw:186417, pages 174-213) ITERATION AND LANGUAGE PLAY: RESISTNIG HARMONISATION Previous chapters of this thesis have examined how AND the (im)possibility of openness to this Other "to come".