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\ud83d\udcdd The following articles are revised from a TARN panel presented at the 2025 CHCI Annual Meeting in Berlin, Germany. The original publications are on the CJD Platform<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h5>\n

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This panel addresses the rise of authoritarian regimes in our time, while responding to the theme of this conference\u2014ressentiment<\/em>. For us, ressentiment takes various forms, locating its scapegoats in racialised, gendered, and marginalised others\u2014both domestically and internationally. As a deep-rooted sense of antagonism and insecurity, it contains neither humour nor irony but instead manifests as stubborn disavowal and brutal suppression. We analyse how these affective undercurrents are not merely episodic but structural, systemic, and institutional, with deep historical roots. Through the artworks, we trace a long history of migration in East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and artistic intersections with Europe. We also consider how intellectual interventions and experimental practices might resist the authoritarian and repressive logic of our age.<\/h5>\n[\/et_pb_cta][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]\n

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Wired Tianxia, Wounded Borders:<\/h1>\n

Ressentiment,<\/h1>\n

Firewalls, Migrant Bodies, & Aesthetic Interventions<\/h1>\n

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What unfolds when Tianxia\u2014 \u201cAll-Under-Heaven\u201d\u2014is digitally interwoven into a global Gro\u00dfraum<\/em>? Can such a wired realm nurture harmony as kin within a planetary household? Unlikely. Ressentiment<\/em> festers beneath the surface, shaped by geo-historical legacies and geopolitical anxieties. Apparatuses like Germany\u2019s proposed digital Brandmauer<\/em> or China\u2019s Great Firewall are merely the architectural facades of deeper affective fortifications. These sentiments, displaced onto racialized others, migrants, and outsiders, manifest as localized xenophobia and structural precarity, and echo through contemporary artistic expression. This panel examines these entanglements across Europe and Asia while envisioning ethical and intellectual interventions against the repressive currents of our digital zeitgeist<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Keywords: ressentiment, digital governance, migration, tianxia<\/p>\n

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PART I (READ FULL ARTICLE<\/a>)<\/p>\n