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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 135–150.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ban Wang Abstract Chen Qiufan's sci-fi novel Waste Tide attests to the dual alienation of nature and humans. Global capitalism, geopolitical conflict, the scramble for natural resources, and rash development have destroyed the rural community, ruined the health of local populations, and eroded...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 219–237.
Published: 01 March 2024
... that the perceived “natural” and unequal systems are the root causes behind such irresponsible behavior, serving as a symptom of alienation. Through an analysis of Waste Tide , this article examines the relationship between environmental injustice and indifference, demonstrating that waste, as evidence...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 106–118.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., amid new alienations, past pride and solidarity. Chinese documentary films have proven an effective medium in critiquing ecological rifts and disasters, staging a stringent critique against eco-destructive economic trends. Against a visual landscape dominated by billboards, glamorous stars, and images...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 115–135.
Published: 01 March 2019
.... Shen's notion of the longue durée of biology and evolution debunks the transient zeitgeist of modern transformation and accelerations, propelled by the human domination of nature and alienation of the human body. Shen's portrayal of sexuality reasserts the reciprocity and entwinement of inner nature...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 1–15.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., the metabolic rift manifests in the alienation of nature and of labor. The system of accumulation and profit, bent on the domination of nature and labor, is the major source of ecological crises. The introduction addresses alternative modes of production where ecological bonds between humans and nature...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 119–134.
Published: 01 December 2022
... offices, the elite architect transforms into a “barefoot architect.” On the other hand, the culture market, neoliberal ideology, and digital media quickly turn the brick into a simulacrum and a consumer icon, alienating the brick and the creators from their vital connection with nature and the earth...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2024
... relations. The contributors of this issue mount a humanistic critique of structural inequalities, alienating social relations, and environmental injustice in environmental crises while articulating cultural and religious legacies in human-nature relations. [email protected] Copyright © 2024...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 179–195.
Published: 01 March 2024
.... Opening in the throes of China's Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), The Three-Body Problem tells the story of a disillusioned young scientist (Ye Wenjie) who responds to an alien message from Trisolaris and implores them to come to take over Earth. Consequently, humanity has four hundred years to prepare...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 181–187.
Published: 01 December 2022
... through myth building. “They share aspects of the early romantic poets: to overcome social fragmentation and alienation by developing a new myth that is compatible with reason.” 15 Mythmaking arises against the backdrop of modern secular society. Modern society is supposedly liberated from myth...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 238–255.
Published: 01 March 2024
... of society and politics on Mars in relation to the capitalism and colonialism of the earth. The War of the Worlds (1898) by H. G. Wells describes Martians as technologically superior aliens who descend on the earth and overwhelm British imperialism and colonialism. The invading Martians are in fact British...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 75–86.
Published: 01 December 2022
... truncates the embodied and engaged experience, revealing a form of alienation from the corporeal bonds with nature through labor. On the other hand, it would be a mistake to read the girl's vision as a projection of utilitarianism or productionism. With the entwinement of pleasure and labor, material...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 164–180.
Published: 01 December 2022
... in cruelty, alienation, and ecological nightmares. I focus on the narrative of critical utopia centered on intercultural and interplanetary travel. This genre juxtaposes dystopia and utopia by way of time and space travel and mutual reflection between two planets. The narrative of interplanetary travel...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 170–187.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of alienation in the 1844 Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts . He later elaborated this idea in his critique of political economy in Capital . See Marx, Capital , vol. 1, chap. 1. 27 Wang, “Displaced in the Simulacrum,” 159 . 28 Jia's concern with the health and well-being of Chinese...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 355–373.
Published: 01 September 2022
... resolution by indexing the group's sense of alienation despite being part of the majority ethnic community. The positionality of its members therefore marks a paradox, as grievances about social estrangement are more often associated with minorities. To account for this atypical psychology of estrangement...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 151–163.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of the means of healing. It robs him of a chance to work through the trauma. The alienating effect suspends his anxiety and guilt, sweeping them under the rug. In trauma studies, a workable therapy requires emotional resonance, connectivity, and sympathy. Therapy, as Amanda Rees and Charlotte Sleigh write...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 55–74.
Published: 01 December 2022
... in nature” and appreciate “a voluptuousness for the mind in a train of thought that he can never unravel.” 27 Adorno's insight is helpful for understanding Shen Congwen's critique of the erosion of nature, alienation of inner nature, and destruction of rural communities in China's drives...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 163–176.
Published: 01 March 2023
... is a stylistic device that relates to his migrant condition and to Mahler's “Jewish element” by conveying an effect of alienation. 6 Adorno's explanation is supported by an autobiographical reading of Das Lied von der Erde , which in turn is supported by Mahler's statement that this was “the most personal...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 77–102.
Published: 01 March 2024
... that, for Mu Dan, “‘nature’ is an innate ‘other’ instead of an alienated other.” 10 These two opposing readings signify the phantasmatic quality of nature conveyed in this poem. The complexity of this quality can be more productively clarified in the cross-connections of nature, culture, war, and humans...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 6–27.
Published: 01 March 2022
... that did not exist in socialist cities: cosmopolitan and global sites in new urban films and the dispersed interstitial space of marginalities in rural-migrant films. Both display urban experiences spatialized in these new urban spaces; migrant experiences of alienation and displacement are particularly...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): vii–viii.
Published: 01 December 2022
... wave of technoscientific hubris and triumphalism engulfing and reshaping the world. Centered in the Bay Area of California, a techno hegemony is eroding the humanist tradition, aggravating environmental crises, ravaging the earth, and alienating humans from themselves. Under the rubric of politics...
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