...Ban Wang Abstract Taking issue with Anthropocene , deep ecology, and technological determinism, the introduction lays out this work's framework composed of the Marxist ecological notions of metabolic rift, the romantic legacy, and the Frankfurt School's critical ecology. Under capitalism...

...Ban Wang Abstract In the post-socialist and market reform era, the power of the market and the developmental imperatives are creating metabolic rifts between humans and nature, between producers and the land. The film The Piano in a Factory tells a story of the working class trying to rekindle...

... the natural environment. Technical advances—artificial intelligence, brain-computer interface, biochemical technologies, and cyborg construction—aggravate metabolic rifts in the human-nature relations, threatening human bodies, regional culture, and local traditions. Driven by profit motives and the desire...

..., Karl, 1, 6–8, 77–78, 109, 114, 120, 135, 137, 139, 141, 170, 182, 184 May Fourth, 10, 35, 38, 43, 55–57, 67–69, 73n7, 101 metabolic rift, 7, 14, 135, 137, 139, 184 metabolism, 1, 6–8, 77–78, 137, 139, 167 Morris, William, 121 Musk, Elon, 164 myth, 6, 10, 13–14, 28, 33, 35–39, 47, 49...

... . Clark, Brett , and John B. Foster . “ Ecological Imperialism and Global Metabolic Rift .” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 50 , nos. 3–4 ( 2009 : 311 – 34 . Clark, Timothy . Literature and the Environment . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011 . Cooper...

... and health and ripping off surplus value. Robbing the soil describes the metabolic rift in feedback loops and interflows of energy, resources, and waste within biospheres and between human production and natural environments. As corporeal beings, humans are part of nature. The expropriation of nature is thus...

... an “irreparable rift” 4 that constantly breaks down natural metabolism. Exploitive, profit-driven production cynically destroys the organic metabolic interflow between human beings' labor and nature. The extraction of surplus value from the producer gives rise to the antagonistic separation between capital...