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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 219–237.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Yuanyuan Hua; Yunfan Zhang Abstract Slow violence, or the gradual ecological devastation that goes unnoticed, is not always discernible to our perceptions. It is the indifference toward environmental degradation and the suffering experienced by marginalized communities that contributes...
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Prism (2023) 20 (2): 341–366.
Published: 01 September 2023
... aesthetics, economics, and ecosystem. The rapid transformations of Chinese cyberspace make it a digital sand beach in which the poets write. This situation creates a curious paradox: while the internet is supposed to “remember forever” words indifferently, the death of platforms and digital censorship can...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 244–263.
Published: 01 October 2020
... is not a means of furthering the narrator's agenda; instead, the narrator learns to selflessly care for another. This also represents a pivotal moment when the narrator begins to gain an emotional understanding of writers from mainland China—his home. His journey is from ignorance and indifference to sympathy...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 67–85.
Published: 01 March 2022
... flashy brats laugh at his outdated look and language, but when Mr. Six has a heart attack and falls down on a busy street, indifferent passersby treat him as a fraudster who attempts to pengci 碰瓷—usually an elderly person who fakes an accident to extort compensation. The uncanny vertigo Mr. Six...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 181–192.
Published: 01 March 2022
... indifference to imperiled Asian Americans was particularly obvious in the New York case because surveillance video—drawn from the security cameras of apartment buildings near the attack—also showed a security guard closing the door on the woman as she sought help. 10 I should be clear here that my focus...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 374–393.
Published: 01 September 2022
... for spontaneously incisive sociopolitical commentary that ironically falls on passively indifferent ears. The assembly place Yeng mentions in the story is likely Speakers' Corner, a six-thousand-square-meter section of Hong Lim Park in Singapore that first opened in September 2000 at the government's direction...
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Prism (2023) 20 (1): 117–138.
Published: 01 March 2023
...” a great poem. Although the poem depicts those at the bottom of Chinese society, the poet chooses not to use a realist approach. In portraying Second Granny's abject misery, he expresses neither sympathy nor indignation. On the contrary, the prose poem creates a facade of indifference and detachment...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 235–243.
Published: 01 March 2021
... Schmitt's discussion. Most notably, Giorgio Agamben, in his book State of Exception , argues that a state of exception represents a peculiar state that “is neither external nor internal to the juridical order, and the problem of defining it concerns precisely a threshold, or a zone of indifference, where...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 29–49.
Published: 01 March 2024
... plumbing, namely, the “folds” that channel thought outside of or indifferent to the quintessentially European obsessions Jullien identifies as Being, Truth, presence, or the logos. Just as his elucidations of Chinese perceptions of the physical world serve Jullien's avowed goal of casting light...
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Prism (2024) 21 (1): 196–218.
Published: 01 March 2024
... the misfortune and consequences of these crises as part of a new, desirable aesthetics. It presents a world of apathy, complacency, and indifference. The sarcastic, tongue-in-cheek representations celebrating the aesthetics of the grotesque and abject are Chen's way of translating the negative psychoterratic...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 89–113.
Published: 01 March 2021
... Liansheng forsakes her, she then enjoys her affair with Liu'er in a more unscrupulous manner, taking carriage rides and going to the theater, callously indifferent to the fact that her reputation of pin xizi 姘戲子 (hooking up with an actor) has repelled all her patrons. 58 It is an overinterpretation...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 151–163.
Published: 01 December 2022
... on the roof but is being affected by the bodily and emotional system, the total foundation of the castle.” 7 The AI quantification of our life and social relations “makes us ignore face-to-face gatherings and indifferent to eye contact and to tears and hugs,” rendering us impervious to the pain from our...
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Prism (2022) 19 (1): 167–180.
Published: 01 March 2022
... on how realistic and prophetic the ten-year-old film's portrayal of a pandemic is. This indifference to anti-Asian attitudes is astonishing when one considers the prominence of East Asia in the film's plot, and it demonstrates the political and cultural invisibility of Asians in the West...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 265–282.
Published: 01 September 2022
... fiction is a platform that invites “amateur, informal, collaborative participation” and that it is frequently used to “scope out or test the bounds of the state's OB [out-of-bounds] markers, even while acknowledging such counternarratives are likely to be met with indifference by a larger public...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 87–105.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and remains indifferent to the needs and suffering of the peasant population. Du, the director of the commune's health center, is in league with Qian, a residual figure of the arrogant medical profession from the past. They sideline the barefoot doctors, withhold pharmaceutical resources, deny their training...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 225–243.
Published: 01 October 2020
... to raw material and severed their millennial ties to humanity. In the new age of industrialization marked by disenchantment and extraction of nature, stones and everything else “in the heavens and beneath the earth” have “grown indifferent to the fate of the sons of men and no voice speaks to them from...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 35–54.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and extraction of nature, stones and everything else “in the heavens and beneath the earth” have “grown indifferent to the fate of the sons of men and no voice speaks to them from anywhere.” “All measured and weighed and examined for their specific weight and their density,” stones are viewed as fodder...
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Prism (2023) 20 (S1): 140–156.
Published: 01 December 2023
... became celebrated for cultivating an indifference to the mundane world, Hao takes up a different posture: “He is showered with blessings [from the external] but does not chase after the external.” For Zhuangzi, the material world exerts pressure on mind or consciousness, diverting it from its effort...
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Prism (2020) 17 (1): 35–56.
Published: 01 March 2020
... failing grade in Fujino's course on anatomy. 35 What do we make of Lu Xun's indifference or inability to display the technical and visual accuracy required by anatomy? What is at issue here is a conflict between the mind and the eye. This perhaps again reflects his perception of a hierarchy between...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 188–209.
Published: 01 March 2021
... days, as well as its reception in the community. Here we can frame smog life as the antithesis of avant-garde smog art. Indeed, this everyday smog life espoused by ordinary people exhibits an indifferent, transcendent life attitude or philosophy at odds with its contemporaneous ethos in this era...
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