• #wp "Animism (from Latin: [[anima]], 'breath, spirit, life')[1][2] is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence. Potentially, animism perceives all things—animals, plants, rocks, rivers, weather systems, human handiwork, and perhaps even words—as animated and [[alive]]."
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animism

Harvey opined that animism's views on personhood represented a radical challenge to the dominant perspectives of modernity, because it accords "intelligence, rationality, consciousness, volition, agency, intentionality, language, and desire" to non-humans. Similarly, it challenges the view of human uniqueness that is prevalent in both Abrahamic religions and Western rationalism.

– Animism - Wikipedia

[[Miyazaki Hayao]]

Animism is the most important tenet of Miyazaki’s signature films, including [[Spirited Away]], [Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind], [My Neighbour Totoro], [Princess Mononoke], and [[Ponyo]] (2008).

• Miyazaki Hayao’s Animism and the Anthropocene

Resources

• Miyazaki Hayao’s Animism and the Anthropocene