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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Ban Wang Abstract As a champion of May Fourth enlightenment and a critic of Chinese tradition, Lu Xun is less understood as a prescient critic of the myth of science and technological rationality. Walter Benjamin invoked the utopian reconciliation of humans and nature from premodern culture...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 35–54.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ban Wang Abstract Primarily thought of as a critic of Chinese tradition, Lu Xun is less understood as a critic of technoscientific rationality. Walter Benjamin invoked the utopian reconciliation of humans and nature from premodern culture in critiques of modernity. In the same vein, Lu Xun...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 1–15.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., resonant biosphere encompassing human sexuality, plants, mountains, rivers, and animals. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 Anthropocene technology metabolism labor Walter Benjamin It is not the unity of living and active humanity with the natural...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 189–195.
Published: 01 December 2022
... . “ Capital/Cinema .” In Deleuze and Guattari: New Mappings in Politics, Philosophy, and Culture , edited by Eleanor Kaufman and Kevin J. Heller , 77 – 95 . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1998 . Benjamin, Walter . Illuminations: Essays and Reflection , edited by Hannah...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 221–235.
Published: 01 October 2019
... Chinese characters. 20 Yan, “Finding Light in China's Darkness.” References Benjamin, Walter . “ The Task of the Translator ,” translated by Howard Zohn . In Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings , vol. 1 , 1913–1926 , edited by Marcus Bullock and Michael W. Jennings , 253...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 28–45.
Published: 01 March 2022
... are not significantly different. In order to understand the role of the specter in contemporary Chinese literature, it is useful to compare it to that of the ragpicker. Walter Benjamin draws attention to the figure of the ragpicker in his discussion of Charles Baudelaire's sketches of contemporary life. He...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): vii–viii.
Published: 01 December 2022
... in Aesthetic Theory is extremely challenging, and Walter Benjamin's “The Storyteller” is mystical and dense. But the students and I wrestled with these tough readings and other texts in intense and deep discussions. We also studied works of Chinese literature and film from ecological perspectives. Students...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 432–455.
Published: 01 October 2019
... Librarian of Beijing Library Ren Jiyu]. Hanzi wenhua 漢字文化 [ Culture of Chinese Characters ], no. 4 ( 1992 ): 7 . Benjamin, Walter . “ The Task of Translator ,” translated by Harry Zohn . In Illuminations , edited by Hannah Arendt , 69 – 82 . New York : Schocken Books , 1968...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 251–254.
Published: 01 March 2022
.... The title of the chapter, “Second Chances,” views translation not as the opportunity for a transcendent textual afterlife that Walter Benjamin imagines in his “The Translator's Task,” but instead asserts that “each [translation] remains less a transcendent entry into the literary canon and more a new, often...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 75–86.
Published: 01 December 2022
... human beings and between humans and nature. 3 Inherent in the Marxist conceptions of the human-nature relationship, this view is crystallized in the dream image proposed by French socialist thinker Charles Fourier, Walter Benjamin, and ecosocialist thinkers. It is true that human production...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 217–224.
Published: 01 October 2020
... of progress and technoscientific rationality prevalent in the early twentieth century. This opening article aptly exemplifies our collective endeavor to cross boundaries between modern and premodern studies, between Western and Chinese literary and cultural theories. Just as Walter Benjamin's (1892–1940...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 319–336.
Published: 01 September 2022
... Anderson, Benedict . Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism . Revised and enlarged. London : Verso Books , 1991 . Ba Ren 巴人 . Wuzu miao 五祖廟 [The Temple of Five Ancestors]. Guangzhou : Huacheng chubanshe , 1986 . Benjamin, Walter . Selected Writings...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 346–367.
Published: 01 October 2019
... Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China . Hong Kong : Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau , 2017 . Benjamin, Walter . “ The Storyteller: Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskov .” In Illuminations , translated by Harry Zohn , edited by Hannah Arendt , 83...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 211–220.
Published: 01 October 2019
... Hillenbrand develops a critical reflection on the structural relationship between concepts of waste and precarity. Borrowing Walter Benjamin's figure of the ragpicker, Hillenbrand uses rag picking to describe the methodological approach not only of the contemporary artists seeking to represent urban waste...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 119–134.
Published: 01 December 2022
... in the process of fulfilling genuine human needs. 6 As we saw in my introduction, Walter Benjamin inherited the romantic notion of artist labor and invested it with material and ecological implications. Living in the early modern era marked by a pervasive mechanization and alienation of labor, Benjamin...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 97–116.
Published: 01 March 2023
... traces his argument to Friedrich Schleiermacher, Walter Benjamin, and Antoine Berman, but we can find other precedents in the “hard” or “stiff translation” 硬譯 of Lu Xun 魯迅 and in James J. Y. Liu's dichotomy of “nativizing” or “barbarizing” translations. 13 Venuti, in fact, has since argued that his...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 197–199.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., 10–11, 17, 22, 55, 57, 73, 84, 181 artificial intelligence, 13, 135–36, 140, 151. See also AI. artisan, 9, 84, 121–24, 133 barefoot doctor, 12, 15n15, 88, 96–97, 99, 102–4, 125 Baudelaire, Charles, 9, 38 Benjamin, Walter, vii, 4, 8, 35–39, 44, 77, 83, 121–23 biopolitical...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 17–34.
Published: 01 December 2022
... a depressing record of violence against nature in tandem with violence against human beings. Kang's insight affirms Walter Benjamin's remark that “there is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.” 21 By holding up the Heaven-endowed unity of human and nature, Kang...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 89–113.
Published: 01 March 2021
... modern guise it murmurs the old story of huitou shi'an 回頭是岸 (repentance is salvation). Han Bangqing Haishanghua liezhuan Chinese literary modern naturalism Copyright © 2021 Lingnan University 2021 References Benjamin, Walter . “ Theses on the Philosophy of History...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 341–366.
Published: 01 September 2023
.... As Walter Benjamin notes, nineteenth-century Parisian flaneurs were connoisseurs of the street. As a lifestyle, their act of idle strolling was architecturally enabled by the construction of arcades, which turned the city into a landscape and a room. The poet Charles Baudelaire was a quintessential flaneur...
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