... 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...

... fetishism, and the rise of a technocratic elite, Lu Xun sought to uncover and redeem primordial images from archaic traditions. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Lingnan University 2022 60 Lu Xun, Lu Xun quanji, 2:386; Yang and Yang, Old Tales Retold , 50. 59 Lu Xun, Lu Xun...

..., 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...

..., technocratic elites, and technological fetishism, particularly as they are portrayed in science fiction, such as Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem , Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide , and films such as Ex Machina (dir. Alex Garland). Our discussion and interaction confirmed an ancient Chinese adage about...

... 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...

... bold claims are made for which the book offers scant evidence. One is struck by a paragraph that opens 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...

...), 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...

... technological 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...

...,” 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 van Staalduine, “Chinese fabrieksarbeider vangt leed...

... 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...

... and the valorized, almost fetishized status of the fireflies, these explicit parallels between the two species at the end of the work suggest how the nominally parasitic lice may, in fact, play a structurally constitutive role, just as the idealized figure of the firefly (both real and metaphorical) embodies...

... of such transformations. 11 Using Walter Benjamin's montage method, unfairly disparaged by Adorno as being “located at the crossroads of magic and positivism,” my essay explores the tensions and links between unmasking the “commodity fetish” of tobacco and allegorizing such a commodity to arrive at other possible...

...-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...

... and bureaucratic functionaries,” wrote Maurice Meisner, the ideal of red-and-expert cadres gave way to an entrenched stratum of mere experts and administrators, governing the masses from their office desks. 34 The technobureaucratic model fostered a fetish in the expertise and power of experts and specialists...