What exactly is remix aesthetics?
Let’s take a look at one interesting element of remix’s aesthetic, steampunk
In short, the steampunk worldview is a utopian ideal of backwardness and advance, of magic and science, of spiritual pursuit. Most steampunk works depict Victorian England, a powerful empire known as the sun never sets. Watt’s improved steam engine made the human society forward a big step, its birth started the human steam era, so that the human society entered the first industrial revolution marked by the widespread use of steam engine. New sources of energy-oil and electricity-are already being mined or used in large quantities. Larger machines are beginning to appear in the western world. All this has led to a huge increase in the productivity of western civilization. The productivity increases greatly, also made the social configuration produced the transformation. The development of productivity, the complexity of product structure, the renewal of equipment, the demand for capital, all require the expansion of production scale, equipment and capital more concentrated. Under such requirements, liberal capitalism began to transition to monopoly capitalism, that is, imperialism, and monopoly organizations came into being. The technological revolution is also an era of unprecedented technological innovation. The scientific geniuses who studied the high-tech revolution brought countless new things into the world, and they themselves were sought after by millions of people, who profited from the combination of invention and commerce. Perhaps the most famous of these is Edison, the founder of the modern electrical and social revolution. The rapid development of science and technology has broadened people’s material world, and also broadened the depth and breadth of people’s understanding. During this period, the revision of old ideas and the establishment of new consciousness, from the steam engine to the penicillin cell, from the steam ship to the light bulb tungsten wire, all kinds of magnificent scenes are possible.





