...that is, when space’s effects on us become manifest, or when we become intentionally cognizant of the ways we think, act, and live within our space. Youngsuk Chae’s “Postmodern Ecology” approaches environmental critique by walking us through Ruth Ozeki’s famed novel All Over Creation, detailing within it the logic of a global economic crisis that is produced mainly from biotechnology’s production of what is referred to as “simulated nature.” In this sense Jeon’s piece is a historical reading, indeed a historical representation, of racial formation during the moment of Japanese postwar economic reconstruction and the galvanization of U.S. imperial power in Asia and the Pacific.