01/08/2023
We are delighted to announce the publication of Prism’s first supplemental issue At Home in Nature: Technology, Labour, and Critical Ecology in Modern China authored by Prof. Ban Wang at Stanford University. The first Prism monograph supplement launch, hosted by Prism’s editor-in-chief Prof. Zong-qi Cai, will be held online at 6-9 PM (Pacific Time)/ 9-12 pm (EST) on August 3, 2023. The ZOOM meeting ID is 948 4417 6786, and the password is 62236914.
From the eco-critical perspective, this book critiques anthropocentricism, technoscientific hubris, and ecologically destructive modes of production. Examining modern discourse, literature, film, and science fiction, it views the domination of nature and labor under capitalism and technocrats as the culprit of ecological crises and human alienation. Alternatively, utopianisms of nonalienated labor keep alive the ideals of resonance between humans and Earth. The Table of Contents is listed below:
Introduction
Chapter One. Confucianism and Nature: Ecological Motifs in Kang Youwei’s Great Community
Chapter Two. Lu Xun’s Mytho-ecological Refutation of Technocrats
Chapter Three. Romancing Landscape and Human Animal: Shen Congwen
Chapter Four. We Are the Dragon King: Labor and Happiness
Chapter Five. Farewell to the God of Plague: The Revolution in Medicine
Chapter Six. Dignity and Misery of Labor
Chapter Seven. Art and Labor in Han Song’s Regenerated Bricks
Chapter Eight. Toxic Colonialism, Alienation, and Posthuman Dystopia in Chen Qiufan
Chapter Nine. Artificial Intelligence, Affective Labor, and Death in Life
Chapter Ten. Critical Ecotopia in Hao Jingfang’s Vagabonds
Epilogue
References
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