By regarding modern technology as masculine and destructive, ecofeminists embrace and establish the relationships between women and nature, trying to find out a new possible way of setting up various non-hierarchical orders, by the reassurance of goddess, spirituality., intuition, etc. Unfortunately, ecofemlnism, in the discussion, remains within the dualism of "culture/ nature" and "male/ female". This paper suggests that, in Hayao Miyazaki's Laputa: Castle in the Sky, the flying castle harbors a disturbance, to say the least, of culture/ nature dualism. The levitation stone, the magical mecha and the fantastic gardens one finds in Laputa the Castle will be the spirituality base that opens up new possibilities; while at the same time, it also poses challenges to the culture/ nature dualism. Laputa the Castle problematizes our "common sense" of nature, culture, and especially the dichotomy of science and age-old magic. It is a new configuration which blurs the boundaries between nature/ artifice, nature/ humanity, matter/ form.
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