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If our current environmental predicament, and recent catastrophes such as the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima in 2011, can be diagnosed as partly a crisis of the imagination, then radical action is needed. Ecopoetics can help by directing attention to the agentic properties of matter, and to the sometimes unexpected ways in which chains of events are brought about, through principles of both randomness and design. In Yoko Tawada’s literary work, chance intra-actions between human and material agencies lead to a variety of surprising, surreal scenarios. Focusing on an array of Tawada’s texts, with particular attention to her post-Fukushima novel, The Last Children of Tokyo (US title The Emissary , 2018, Japanese original Kentōshi , 2014), this article argues that Tawada’s emphasis on the random and unexpected can provide a valuable ecopoetic perspective, serving both as political critique and as contribution to new materialist thought. Attention to material and linguistic agency is central to Tawada’s surrealist and animistic poetics, which foregrounds what she describes as ‟language magic”—language as an agentic force of its own with a propensity for generating unexpected effects. By situating Tawada’s post-Fukushima writing in the context of her wider work, I argue that her approach can help us to move to a less anthropocentric and agent-centric perspective through paying attention to the creative potential of language and matter, and to how these generate effects through processes of both randomness and design. Resumen Si los actuales problemas medioambientales y las recientes catastrofes tales como la fusion nuclear de Fukushima en 2011 pueden ser diagnosticados en parte como crisis de la imaginacion, entonces es necesaria una accion radical. La ecopoetica puede ser util llamando la atencion hacia las propiedades agentivas de la materia y las a veces inesperadas maneras en que se producen cadenas de acontecimientos por medio de aleatoriedad y de diseno. En la obra literaria de Yoko Tawada, las intra-acciones entre agentes humanos y materiales conducen a una variedad de escenarios sorprendentes y surrealistas. Centrado en una variedad de obras de Tawada, prestando especial atencion a su novela post-Fukushima, Los ultimos ninos de Tokio ( The Last Children of Tokyo , 2018; titulo US The Emissary , 2018, original japones, Kentōshi , 2014), el presente articulo defiende la tesis de que el enfasis de Tawada sobre la aleatoriedad y lo inesperado puede facilitar una valiosa perspectiva ecopoetica, sirviendo tanto como critica politica y como contribucion a un nuevo pensamiento materialista. Central a la poetica surrealista y animistica de Tawada es la atencion a la agencia material y linguistica, que ofrece un primer plano a lo que la autora describe como “magia del lenguaje”—el lenguaje como fuerza agentiva en si misma y con propension a generar efectos inesperados. Al situar la obra post-Fukushima de Tawada en el contexto de su obra general, mantengo que su enfoque puede sernos util para acceder a una perspectiva menos antropocentrica y menos centrada en la agentividad, prestando atencion al potencial creativo del lenguaje y la materia, y a la manera en que dichos aspectos generan efectos a traves de procesos tanto de aleatoriedad como de diseno.

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&lt;b&gt;Confronting ‟Unforeseen” Disasters: Yōko Tawada’s Surrealist and Animistic Poetics&lt;/b&gt; // Haciendo frente a desastres "imprevistos": La poética surrealista y animística de Yōko Tawada