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This essay develops a way lo think about the aesthetics of wind eneriiy .sy.stems. The inqiiiiy be^iins by consideriti^ an increasini(ly familiar dash between aesthetic responses to wind farms: liie NIMBY appreciator of wind farms who likes their ecological ratiotudity but not their look, and the aesthetic appreciator who sees the wind farm as beautiful in part because of its ecological rationality. 1 raise the following questions: Is one ofihe.se perceptions more objeciive than the other? Is one of the aesthetic judgments uttered more truthful than the other? Or is ihis simply a question of subjective or inlermbjeclive preferences? The essay goes on to explore dialeclically the various ways we can think about the...