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This article engages with scholarship in media theory and the history of technology and design and delves into case studies of various scales of air purifiers: the Dyson Zone and the Anti-Smog Tower in Xi’an, Shaanxi. I investigate the cultural and political tensions among the air purifier’s users, policy-makers and designers. I argue that within a market economy, the principles of air purifier design ultimately lead to the commodification of air.
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