Industrial Sublime

The idea of the sublime has been around for centuries, starting with the association made from Romans with rhetoric, and the later - and the most popular – association of this idea with the frightening beauty of the natural landscape from Burke to Kant, then briefly passing to culture with Lyotard.

After two centuries of industrialization we can clearly state that the aesthetic of the sublime first overlapped and then decisively shifted over the aesthetic of the technical (the industry) and trespassing to the technological (digitalization); where, in my opinion, being power plants the most representative artifact of the technical category of beauty and its engagement with landscape.

Those artifact and technologies although hided from the general gaze become very important, with foreign energy policies grounding most of the major global disputes and discords of the last decades, from the Gulf War to the Afghan and Iraqi War.

© Marco Caterini - Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station, Hartlepool, England 2015
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Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station, Hartlepool, England 2015

© Marco Caterini - Sizewell Nuclear Power Station, Sizewell, England 2014
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Sizewell Nuclear Power Station, Sizewell, England 2014

© Marco Caterini - Heysham Nuclear Power Station, Heysham, England 2015
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Heysham Nuclear Power Station, Heysham, England 2015

© Marco Caterini - Sutton Bridge Gas Power Station, Sutton Bridge, England 2015
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Sutton Bridge Gas Power Station, Sutton Bridge, England 2015

© Marco Caterini - The Grange Wind Farm, Sutton Bridge, England 2015
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The Grange Wind Farm, Sutton Bridge, England 2015

© Marco Caterini - Belleville Nuclear Power Station, Belleville, France 2012
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Belleville Nuclear Power Station, Belleville, France 2012

© Marco Caterini - 1Nogent Nuclear Power Station, Nogent-sur-Seine, France 2009
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1Nogent Nuclear Power Station, Nogent-sur-Seine, France 2009

© Marco Caterini - Ironbridge Coal and Biomasses Power Station, Ironbridge, England 2015
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Ironbridge Coal and Biomasses Power Station, Ironbridge, England 2015

© Marco Caterini - Saint-Alban Nuclear Power Station, Saint-Alban, France 2012
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Saint-Alban Nuclear Power Station, Saint-Alban, France 2012

© Marco Caterini - Taiyuan 2nd Coal Power Station, Taiyuan, China 2010
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Taiyuan 2nd Coal Power Station, Taiyuan, China 2010

© Marco Caterini - Ferrybridge, Eggborough, Drax Coal Power Stations, Ferrybridge, England 2014
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Ferrybridge, Eggborough, Drax Coal Power Stations, Ferrybridge, England 2014

© Marco Caterini - Trawsfynydd Nuclear Power Station, Trawsfynydd, Wales, England 2015
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Trawsfynydd Nuclear Power Station, Trawsfynydd, Wales, England 2015

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