the Ontology of Hayao Miyazaki: On Film and Possibility Another World

Hayao Miyazaki's films do not argue with capitalism. They do not resist it. They simply - persist.The Ontology of Hayao Miyazaki enters the world these films inhabit and asks what kind of being that world assumes. Across four decades of filmmaking - from Nausicaä to The Boy and the Heron - Miyazaki has built a coherent alternative to the way capitalism organizes existence: relational, non-human, layered, unalienated, bodily. Five features of a world that capitalism has not invented and cannot fully destroy.This is not a fan book. It is not an academic study. It is a work of sustained philosophical attention - written from the formation of Marxist critical theory and South Indian cultural thought - that treats all of Miyazaki's films as a single text and reads them from the inside.For readers who have watched these films and felt, after the screen goes dark, that something has been left behind in them - and for those who have not yet watched them, and will.