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... 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. 4 Ibid., 223. 5...

... fetishism, and the rise of a technocratic elite, Lu Xun sought to uncover and redeem primordial images from archaic traditions. 1 Lu Xun, Lu Xun quanji , 8:28; English translation by Jon Eugene von Kowallis in Lu Xun, “Toward a Refutation,” 51. 2 Benjamin, Illuminations , 96. 3 Ibid...

..., this article analyzes the manifestation of the ideas of yellow peril and yellow fever in recent films and television series. The spectatorial aspect of racism has both fetishized Asian bodies and erased Asianness from content creators' visual landscapes. These case studies reveal that racialized thinking...

...Tong King Lee Abstract This article ponders writing and art that leverage the written script in Sinitic contexts, specifically where Sinographs are fetishized for creative and/or critical purposes—that is to say, they are turned into a spectacle as well as a method. The article analyzes various...

.... [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 alienation artistic work regeneration fetishism disaster capitalism Artistic observation can attain an almost mystical depth. The objects on which it falls lose their names. Light and shade form very particular systems...

... by commodity, consumption, and media spectacle; and how the laboring body is stripped of its corporeality and bonds with Earth by technoscientific fetishism. Alienation from nature is reflected in technoscientific fetishism and the rise of technocratic elites. The metabolic rift of capitalist production...

... about the readings and eager to learn ecocriticism. Since that first seminar, I have taught similar courses over the years with varied titles and themes. Students and I have explored issues of technology, technocratic elites, and technological fetishism, particularly as they are portrayed in science...

... was treated both “as a technology of sound reproduction and as a trope for artistic production” (161), so the fetishization of voice was connected with the age of emerging optical and acoustic media technologies. Through situating the emergence of the modern Chinese crowd discourse within the global...

... with the provocation, “As a youth Yu Dafu was notorious for fetishizing corpses” (90). In turning to the footnote, the evidence provided is not conclusive: “A charge made by Yu Dafu about himself and echoed in ‘Buyi.’ See Tsu, Sound and Script , 188” (108). While a primary source would be preferable to the otherwise...

...), 13, 151–53, 159, 161 evolution, 3, 9, 22, 29, 35, 65, 128, 148–49, 166, 178 Ex Machina (Garland), vii fetishism, vii, 7, 9, 14, 35, 39, 41, 123, 129, 133, 135 folklore, 9, 36, 42, 65, 103 Foster, John Bellamy, 7, 139, 182 Foucault, Michel, 12, 88 Fourier, Charles, 77, 83...

... fetishism and economic growth ravage human society and Earth. Taking Chen Qiufan's novel Waste Tide as a case, this chapter examines the dire consequences of hasty industrialization, toxic colonialism, social breakdowns, and environmental damages. Social crises are endemic to ecological crises...

... to turn into one of their own; the brainwashed member's brain is left with nothing but the tenets of President Jiao's official army. Against the high technology of President Jiao's regime, the society builds its fetish for the classic novel on a radically classicist reimagination of the novel's...

... reflect a double logic wherein Asian bodies are fetishized even as Asianness itself is strategically erased. While Joubin focuses on how Asians are represented on-screen, Fang adopts an inverse approach and examines how Asian Americans have been rendered effectively invisible within US media culture...

.... 41 Goodman, “Translating Migrant Worker Poetry,” 113–16 . 42 Ibid. 43 Tatlow, “‘The Storm of Reality.’” 44 Wang, “Deep Underground.” 45 Sun, “Indoctrination, Fetishization, and Compassion.” 46 Florence, “Cultural Politics of Labour in China.” 47...

... with the rhetoric, tactic, and sentiment shared by the latest crop of detractors. By bidding farewell to revolution, nevertheless, they do not mean to do away with its historical legacy and political thrust. Rather, they mean to critique the way in which revolution has been fetishized as a “political capital...

... or fetishism but should be viewed as a multifaceted, multi-centered, multidimensional, and multifunctional phenomenon. On October 22, 2022, the Constitution of the Communist Party of China was revised to include China's “fine traditional culture” as a major intellectual resource, together with basic...

... of insects to reflect on the constitution and structural dynamics of the human communities with which they are juxtaposed. In particular, although the novel as a whole underscores the parasitic status of the lice and the valorized, almost fetishized status of the fireflies, these explicit parallels between...

... the “commodity fetish” of tobacco and allegorizing such a commodity to arrive at other possible human relations. 12 Second, I use ecologies as a method for writing literary history. Rather than choosing texts that discuss environmental changes and writers' responses to resultant social phenomena, I instead...

...-repeated strict separation of Chinese and Malay people—who, as the narrator keeps reminding us, cannot be turned into one another—is exposed as a fiction. For the narrator's own experience is living proof of the very feasibility of changing one's identity, of transgressing the fetishized boundaries between...

... the masses from their office desks. 34 The technobureaucratic model fostered a fetish in the expertise and power of experts and specialists, re-creating a pattern of inequality and hierarchy at the expense of the revolutionary spirit and egalitarian ethos. The opening scene of Spring Shoots draws...