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China Builds A New Eurasia

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China’s efforts to decarbonize are upending a world economy dependent on the petrodollar and, in the process, restructuring the U.S.-led world. Jacob Dreyer is an editor and contributing writer for Noema based in Shanghai. Editor’s note: This essay is part of a collaboration between Noema Magazine, e-flux Architecture and the Critical Media Lab at the Basel Academy of Art and Design. Read the introduction here and further essays here and here. “You are the soul of all those who died believing in the happiness that would come in the future. And now see, it has come. The future in which people do not live for something else but for themselves.” —Victor Pelevin, “The Sacred Book of the Werewolf” Over the past few years, the flimsy states and territories that cover the Eurasian continent as lightly as gauze have been getting pushed and pulled into a new way of being. In response to volatile oil prices, temperatures creeping ever higher, forests burning and deserts growing, China is reorder

Excerpts from "Eme Cosmos," a 2024 film by Mia Yu filmed at the largest open-pit mine in Asia. Credits Jacob Dreyer is an editor and contributing writer for Noema based in Shanghai. Editor’s note: This essay is part of a collaboration between Noema Magazine, e-flux Architecture and the Critical Media Lab at the Basel Academy of Art and Design. Read the introduction here and further essays here and here . I. Politics Of A New Eurasia “You are the soul of all those who died believing in the happiness that would come in the future. And now see, it has come. The future in which people do not

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