Nishimura believes that a nation-state-based analysis not only limits our vision but also highlights our hypocrisy by limiting our complicity and responsibility in what is no longer a national issue. We live, he says, “in a world of global interdependency and of global subcontracting networks. It is global production in which we use China as an

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(6) This worldview of a single reality and a single world is profoundly defuturing, to invoke Australian design theorist Fry’s (1999) concept. To recover the ability to imagine other possible futures requires going beyond the modernist ontology of separation and toward an ontology that acknowledges the interdependence of everything that exists.

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