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“Wind farms looks like modernist sculptures!” Exactly. And that’s precisely why so many people are against it. They don’t want the ideology of high modernism disrupting the very different order of the natural world. The metaphysical kernel of truth in the nimby response is: modernist functionalism is an anthropocentric aesthetic of the machine, because it equates value with human interests, and it is mechanistic because it sees natural systems as mechanisms to be mastered, rather than as dynamic, non-linear systems which cannot be controlled. Functionalism is anthropocentrism. However, Wind turbines spinning almost silently and slowly in front of a romantic horizon is something beautiful to look at!

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