Honey, I Shrunk the Nation-State: The Scales of Global History in the Thai Nationalist Theme Park

Queering Postnational Tendencies in Contemporary Art from Thailand

“…6 Lawrence Chua has written of the historic relationship between the appeal of ethereal aesthetics and fascism in Siam/Thailand, exploring a cultural exaltation of the "spiritual" and "beauty" as rooted in the earlier popularity of Mussolini's ideas among political elites here. 7 Here we could recall how Jean Baudrillard, Walter Benjamin and Susan Sontag shaped the pleasures of surface effects as disarming and depoliticising. 8 However, and furthermore, the gendered qualities of aesthetics as a means of representational stereotypes and social regulation have been highlighted by Rachel V. Harrison's studies of Thai literatures.…”