How Pokemon Approaches the Nature/Culture Binary
Channel: Savannah Geary
Date: 2018-11-23

Western societies tend to think of "Nature" as something totally separate from humans and technology. Pokemon does not.

Thank you to Megan (@MagicVendor on instagram) for roasting me through excellently-placed graphics. I actually think she put more hours into this than I did.

Weird Pokemon merch pics are from this article (and it's a trip and you should read it): https://tay.kinja.com/i-own-unquestionably-the-worlds-weirdest-pokemon-coll-1635053375

A lot of what I talk about comes from this book, so if this was interesting to you, you should give it a look: https://books.google.com/books?id=Bsr3h16zrkwC&lpg=PR9&ots=B_eYXnWqpM&dq=non%20western%20perspectives%20on%20human%20communication&lr&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=non%20western%20perspectives%20on%20human%20communication&f=false