Miyazaki Hayao’s Animism and the Anthropocene

The need for a reconsideration of human-nature relationships has been widely recognized in the Anthropocene. It is difficult to rethink, however, because there crisis imagination that deeply entrenched within fundamental premises modernity. This article explores how ‘critical animism’ developed by Miyazaki Hayao Studio Ghibli can address this paucity providing alternative ways knowing and being. ‘Critical emerged from fusion critique modernity with informal cultural heritage Japan. philosophy perceives nature as non-dualistic combination life-world spiritual-world, while also emphasizing significance place. Miyazaki’s critical animism challenges anthropocentrism, secularism, Eurocentrism, well dualism. may be ‘perfect story’ could disrupt existing paradigm, offering promise rethink human-nonhuman envisaging new paradigm social sciences.