Reading Thomas Day’s Seven Seconds to Become an Eagle (2013), this article shows how the human body distinguishes itself from the nonhuman and then how the nonhuman turn inaugurates the emancipatory imagination in the Anthropocene. Many studies of the Anthropocene have approached the problem from a global and universalizing perspective, overlooking problems of race, sex, and class. Few have looked at the material agency of nature or animism. Current ecological crises have revealed the vulnerability and permeability of the human body. Day’s stories reveal trans-corporeality and deconstruct ontological divisions between nature and culture, human and nonhuman, in the process showing the human failure to control nature. Most strikingly trans-corporeal in his stories is the hybridity of the animal skin and the human blood. This article argues that animism is a powerful theoretical weapon not only for deconstructing human exceptionalism but for re-imagining human and nonhuman relationships.

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托马斯·戴（Thomas Day）的《变成鹰的七秒》中的非人类转向和人类世中的身体

阅读托马斯·戴 (Thomas Day) 的《成为鹰的七秒》（2013 年），这篇文章展示了人体如何将自己与非人类区分开来，然后非人类转向如何开启人类世的解放想象力。许多对人类世的研究都是从全球和普遍化的角度来解决这个问题的，忽略了种族、性别和阶级的问题。很少有人关注自然或万物有灵论的物质能动性。当前的生态危机暴露了人体的脆弱性和渗透性。戴的故事揭示了超实体性并解构了自然与文化、人类与非人类之间的本体论划分，在此过程中展示了人类无法控制自然。在他的故事中，最显着的跨肉体是动物皮肤和人类血液的混合。