![]() ![]() In the process, animal narratives also reveal ecological thinking about the harmony among humans, animals, and nature. ![]() ![]() In the novel Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out written by Mo Yan, China's Nobel Prize Laureate, political events such as the Agricultural Cooperative Movement, the People's Commune Movement, and the Cultural Revolution among others are retroactively undone mainly through the means of animal narrative. Such true events are rare, but the undoing of past events has always played a predominant role in the course of history. The true event, according to Badiou's account, is “a contingency which converts into necessity,” generating a new principle or paradigm that becomes universally acknowledged. Slavoj Žižek argues that every event is likely to be dis-eventalized, to be retroactively undone. ![]()
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