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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 244–255.
Published: 01 March 2021
...: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World , Zakiyyah Iman Jackson argues that the emerging interdisciplinary field of animal studies often views “race as a by-product of prior negation of nonhuman animals.” As such, animal studies and other new posthumanist fields of inquiry in the humanities and social...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 491–508.
Published: 01 September 2022
... engagement with the nonhuman and the posthuman; and those dark, deep-seated yearnings in all of us for global attention and happiness, be they emoticonized, iconized, or pixelated. Stories such as “Fold Up Boy” and “Cricket” are not only testaments to the harrowing experiences of the Filipino Chinese...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 55–74.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ban Wang Abstract Sensitive to modernity's estrangement of human bonds to nature and the rural lifeworld, Shen Congwen affirms an ecological understanding of writing and life. The writing self sinks its roots into nature and enmeshes with nonhuman worlds. Animistic language immerses bodily...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 1–15.
Published: 01 December 2022
... to inhabit may be inhospitable and unlivable, and nature by necessity requires transformation so that people can survive and evolve human civilization in “coevolution” with other nonhuman species and surrounds. 5 While recognizing humans as a “species being” in symbiotic relations with nonhuman nature...
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Prism (2019) 16 (1): 115–135.
Published: 01 March 2019
... distinguish between moral and moralistic. Ecological relations are moral in that humans could be sympathetic with and obliged to nonhumans, whereas the moralistic entails the absolutism and rigidity of a specific code of conduct detrimental to humans as well as nonhumans. In “Xiaoxiao,” for instance...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 17–34.
Published: 01 December 2022
... converge into one biological and ecological family: “All people are my brothers and sisters, and all things are my companions.” 1 Far from standing outside nature, humans are embedded in nature and involved in an ongoing process of creativity and renewal. Nonhuman elements and humans flow together...
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Prism (2019) 16 (2): 320–345.
Published: 01 October 2019
... things” ( wanwu 萬物). In this essay, the author examines distinct ways in which fictional writers imagine relational dynamics between humans, nonhuman animals, regional ecosystems, and the cosmos to theorize ecology as method. Ecology as method works to radically decenter anthropocentric understandings...
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Prism (2021) 18 (2): 431–455.
Published: 01 October 2021
... severe challenges to the local and regional environments surface repeatedly in the poetry. Some poems tread boundaries between the human and nonhuman inhabitants of these border areas, speaking for—or as—plants, animals, and geographic features. Copyright © 2021 Lingnan University 2021 Chinese...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 181–187.
Published: 01 December 2022
... as only one trajectory among myriad evolutions of nonhuman species and organisms. The ecological framework presents a horizon that lies below and beyond anthropocentric world literature. The blanket term Anthropocene , however, is problematic and misleading. By focusing on the postnatural universals...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 75–86.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of the capitalist production and projection of ecological utopia, Walter Benjamin proposed the genuine dream of children's play as a model of humans' relation with nature. Play refers to how laborers put into play both nonhuman and human potentials in achieving a pleasurable resonance. “Human labor...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 135–150.
Published: 01 December 2022
... receptors in the brain-damaged victims (236). Due to the lack of funding, the research stalls. Yet, with the surging waves of high tech, genetic engineering, and AI, the Suzuki virus undergoes modification and is repurposed for civilian use: it targets neural structures of humans and nonhumans...
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Prism (2020) 17 (2): 244–263.
Published: 01 October 2020
... action. Still, Ho notes the power of nature to create precious memories that lead to cultural imagining. His work reminds readers of the mutual relationship between the human and nonhuman worlds and of the role of writing in revealing utopian potentialities. Nature can inspire readers to imagine a global...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 235–243.
Published: 01 March 2021
... “human” cells by a ratio of ten to one encouraged a precipitous reimagination of “what it means to be human and the intra- and interconnections with nonhuman objects.” 13 A more explicitly political correlate of this concept of immunity, meanwhile, can be found in the legal concept of a state...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 509–514.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and political happenings.” 5 Mediated by the landscapes, seascapes, and windscapes, as well as the human and nonhuman environments, the texts and the milieus of their production constitute cultural zones in which the discernible and the not-yet-discernible changes intersect. In those zones of convergence...
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Prism (2021) 18 (1): 256–270.
Published: 01 March 2021
... the social bonds of humanness is brought closer into view when the threat of death is impending. The paradigmatic and permanent excising of nonhuman others from the realm of the Human is more visibly potent in moments of intensified crisis. COVID-19, as the product of a dangerous biological pathogen, exposes...
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Prism (2022) 19 (2): 438–453.
Published: 01 September 2022
... Underlying the woman's garbled racist logic (which implies an equivalence between the “Southeast Asian wild man” slur and actual nonhuman primates), there is an allusion to the pressing question of the fate of previously captive Borneo orangutans that have subsequently been released. As Juno Salazar Parreñas...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 87–105.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and Soviet models of modernization. Although medicine is a biochemical process subject to the scientific criteria of truth, the films show that politics always intervenes and inheres at its core. When a mobilized population strives to adjust and regulate biomedical relations between humans and nonhuman...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 35–54.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and Theodor Adorno attempted to invoke utopian images of the reconciliation of humans and nature from premodern and precapitalist pasts, Lu Xun conjured up images of the ancient world. In a critical rather than nostalgic mode, he took a fresh look at a past when rural folks lived and interacted with nonhuman...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 151–163.
Published: 01 December 2022
... is not only unsettling but also raises a “philosophical” issue that contests the traditional presumptions about people and things, humans and nonhumans, and human identity. Qian wavers between the AI mother's impeccable performance of family duties, on the one hand, and the absence of emotional sensibility...
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Prism (2022) 19 (S1): 119–134.
Published: 01 December 2022
...: it is the work of empathetically engaging nonhuman objects as organic living forms, treating Earth and Heaven as a meaningful whole. Benjamin privileges the artisan's work over machine and technology. Instead of exploiting nature and humans, artisan/artistic work enhances and improves nature, creating bonds...
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