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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 219–237.
Published: 01 March 2024
... ecological colonization The term slow violence , coined by Rob Nixon in his influential work Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor , refers to gradual and always unnoticed environmental degradation. This type of “delayed devastation” is dispersed over time and space, 1 constituting...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Ban Wang Abstract Touting the technological fix for environmental crises overlooks the role of society, history, culture, production, and geography. Anthropocene , presuming all civilizations as ecologically destructive, ignores the historical, social, and cultural differences in human-nature...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 211–220.
Published: 01 October 2019
... that address a set of translational processes, ecological paradigms, and mapping regimes, respectively. In the first group, four essays examine processes by which social realities are figuratively translated into cultural representations—and just as discussions of linguistic translation focus not only on what...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 181–187.
Published: 01 December 2022
... dream resonates with the myths of the goddess and ideas of substantial rationality imbued with aesthetic aura and ecological bonds with nature and the earth. This present work seeks to recover the utopian dream of the reconciliation of humans and nature. The Anthropocene accuses all human impact...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 188–209.
Published: 01 March 2021
...-garde smog art counterpart. What has undergirded smog life is a collective ecological unconsciousness—the premodern “mist” consciousness—that is suppressed in “smog modernity,” of which scientific discourse pertaining to topics such as toxic smog ( mai ) has become the predominant way of conceptualizing...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 9–28.
Published: 01 March 2024
... nihilistic contrary to what Nietzsche predicted and most modern scholars of nihilism profess. To the contrary, it has become more antinihilistic and nihilphobic. From an ecological standpoint, nihilism is not and should not be a curse word. In fact, learning how to die requires nihility and nihilism. Only...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 244–263.
Published: 01 October 2020
... of the Future , 7 . 6 Kellner, “Ernst Bloch,” 40 . 7 Bloch, Principle of Hope , 1:94 . 8 Kellner, “Ernst Bloch,” 42 . 9 Gardiner, “Bakhtin's Carnival as Critique,” 37 . 10 McIntyre, “Urban Ecology,” 12 . 11 Ravetz, “Peri-urban Ecology,” 613 . 12 Ibid...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 135–150.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of development, since industrial system applied to agriculture also enervates the workers there, while industry and trade for their part provide agriculture with the means of exhausting the soil. —Karl Marx Critical ecology lays bare the contradictions of capitalism by rediscovering Karl Marx's ecological...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 164–180.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ban Wang Abstract “Ecotopia” describes the social ecology of a world whose socioeconomic institutions are premised on the utopian dream of the reconciliation of the human and nature. The Mars Republic of Hao Jingfang's novel Vagabonds is built through advanced technologies that allow humans...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 131–149.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Robin Visser Abstract This article primarily considers the possibility of translating between Indigenous and settler modes of ecological thought and praxis. The former often manifest analogously to quantum field theory, where, as Indigene Linda Yarrowin states, “it's all connected,” while...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 319–336.
Published: 01 September 2022
.... Here, the article rethinks Ba Ren's legacy within a Mahua corpus, and Zeng Huading's fiction within a cross-straits history of labor. This ecological reading of their works also highlights their critique of Mahua's peripheralization within a world economy and global literature. [email protected]...
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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 (2022) 19 (1): 244–247.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., Bodies, and Sexuality in East Asia,” with essays by Ikuo Shinjo, Rey Chow, and Chang-Min Yu, turns to the corporeal aspects of fiction and cinema emerging from sites scarred by colonization and war. The third, “Disjunctive Alignments: Critical Aesthetics and Social Movements in East Asia,” offers...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 35–54.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of this hypocrite gentry and retain mytho-ecological beliefs. Examining Lu Xun's stories from Old Tales Retold , t his chapter explores the Chinese writer's recovery of the mythical and ecological images from the past in his critique of technocratic modernity. Confronted with the myth of progress, technological...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 October 2020
... the Chinese writer's recovery of the mythical and ecological images from the past in the critique of modernity. Confronted with the fetishism of progress and technology in China's early modernization, Lu Xun sought to uncover and redeem primordial images from archaic traditions. Like Frankfurt school...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 320–345.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Robin Visser Abstract In “China as Method,” Mizoguchi Yūzō argues that “a world that takes China as method would be a world in which China is a constitutive element.” Similarly, a world that takes ecology as method is a world in which humans are a constitutive element, one of “the ten thousand...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 244–255.
Published: 01 March 2021
... histories of racialized images and writings comparing colonized peoples from Africa, Asia, and the Americas to animals, 2 the fact that posthumanist fields of inquiry, including animal studies, appear at times to conceive of species differentiation as the foundational conceit for racism may be surprising...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 119–134.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ban Wang Abstract The romantic and ecological legacy of Homo faber sheds light on Han Song's Regenerated Bricks . In that novella the victims of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, guided by an architect, produce bricks by using debris, straw, and corpses. Regenerating lives and hopes of the victims...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 283–300.
Published: 01 September 2022
...), but also because it encapsulates almost all issues that concern Sinophone studies. Through five modules—“Winds,” “Islands,” “Straits,” “Peninsulas and Gulfs,” and “Oceans”—the Reader seeks to navigate the rich ecology of Southeast Asia in which Sinophone settlers and travelers created their own societies...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 337–354.
Published: 01 September 2022
... “untainted” by the culture of the colonizers—especially women—are also those who most fiercely resist his narrators' “return” to tradition. 28 Ng, “Ala de zhiyi,” 109 . For an English translation by Carlos Rojas, see Ng, “Allah's Will.” 29 Rojas, “Introduction,” xx . 30 Groppe...
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