The centrality of slime to corporeal theory can hardly be overstated, and phobic responses to slime belie both the exceptionalism we claim as our birthright, on the one hand, and the realities of our bodily existence and experiences on the other. Slime threatens and enables our sense of corporeal identity; triggers horror and disgust (as well as playful delight in children and sexual arousal in adults); and sits firmly within an ecophobic understanding of agencies outside of ourselves. Gendered and threatening, slime is oddly ambivalent matter. It is the stuff of which Anthropocene ecoGothic dreams are made, matter well beyond our command that threatens us precisely because of the ineluctability of its agential presence in our lives.

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肉体、超意识和人类世生态哥特式：粘液和生态恐惧症

史莱姆对物质理论的中心地位怎么强调都不为过，对史莱姆的恐惧反应一方面掩盖了我们声称的与生俱来的例外论，另一方面掩盖了我们身体存在和经历的现实。史莱姆威胁并增强了我们的肉体认同感；引发恐惧和厌恶（以及儿童的嬉戏乐趣和成人的性唤起）；并且牢牢地坐在对我们之外的机构的环保理解中。性别和威胁，史莱姆是一种奇怪的矛盾物质。正是人类世生态哥特式梦想所用的材料，远远超出我们的控制范围的物质，正是因为它在我们生活中不可避免地存在而对我们构成威胁。