Citizenship Aesthetics

Citizenship Aesthetics (Chinese: 公民美學; pinyin: Gōngmín Měixué) is a movement set forth by Council for Cultural Affairs of the Republic of China that proposes an aesthetic style of practicing citizenship. Citizenship aesthetians believe that an aesthetic style of citizenship can help set up the best of our world.

Citizenship aesthetics-based world is a world built on the model of citizenship aesthetics. A world such built would not reduce all worldly entities into resoucre materials, waiting for people to measure, manipulate and manufacture into products as to meet personal needs or wants. Instead, a world built on the model would break the modern technology enframing fate, and emancipate all enframed worldly entities as they essentially are, and set forth a holistic union space for them to poetically dwell and freely encounter with each other.

Aesthetic citizens are people that are engaged with the world in the aesthetic kind of ways—namely, existing, living, acting in the world, wherein all beings-in the world, worldly entities, natural as well as man-made, can show themselves truthly and encounter each other harmoniously as they are.

According to Political philosopher, Hannah Arendt, politics is the noblest art for the realization of immortality. Politics is not necessarily ugly and deceitful tricks. For example, enacting citizenship aesthetics movement, citizen participation, such as general election, could be turned into some sort of citizenship art making, aiming to create beautiful world for and in itself. Candidates and voters together construct the beautiful vision for citizen automous governance through sober reason, rich affections, as well as graceful artistic techniques. Putting behind us the harmful shadow cast over by the notorious election practices, we can reaffirme each other the wisdom and concern, light up again the real passion of full trust. We will believe again elections are opportunities for showing our love and concern about our homeland.

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