Przysługujący widmom wywrotowy, niemalże rewolucyjny potencjał został odsunięty oraz zagubiony poprzez pozbycie się tej kontrowersyjnej kategorii z terytorium metafizyki i zbyt pośpieszne odesłanie jej do przestrzeni badań nad literaturą,... more
Przysługujący widmom wywrotowy, niemalże rewolucyjny potencjał został odsunięty oraz zagubiony poprzez pozbycie się tej kontrowersyjnej kategorii z terytorium metafizyki i zbyt pośpieszne odesłanie jej do przestrzeni badań nad literaturą, sprowadzając ją jedynie do roli użytecznego, bezpiecznego narzędzia interpretacji.
Książka Andrzeja Marca odzyskuje niepokojący charakter widmontologii i ponownie wprowadza widma do myśli metafizycznej. Czym nawiedzona i przeniknięta jest tradycyjna metafizyka, co właściwie ją dręczy, nie daje spokoju oraz nieustannie podmywa jej stabilność?
Kategoria widma Derridy posłużyła Marcowi przede wszystkim do rozważań nad charakterem współczesności i przeobrażeń, jakie dokonały się w obrębie myśli ponowoczesnej. Współczesna kultura, zdaniem Marca, stała się miejscem powstawania widm, nieustannie powracających z przeszłości. Uznając, że nie jesteśmy już w stanie tworzyć utopijnych wizji przyszłości, autor stara się zdać sprawę z widmowego charakteru współczesnej kultury, analizując m. in. strategie vintage, retro, nurt no future w kulturze lat 70. czy nurt fantastyki naukowej w literaturze.
The paper discusses Derrida's concept of hospitality which perfectly describes the experience of loosing the sense of feeling at home and reveals the disintegrating entrance of the Otherness into a coherent home space. Jacques Derrida's... more
The paper discusses Derrida's concept of hospitality which perfectly describes the experience of loosing the sense of feeling at home and reveals the disintegrating entrance of the Otherness into a coherent home space. Jacques Derrida's theory makes it possible to deconstruct the familiar home space, which, however, does not constitute in any case its destruction. Revealing a complex and ambiguous nature of the challenge of hospitality, he perceives the sense of feeling at home as one of the necessary conditions of a stable subject. This is the subject that most fears the Otherness which could disrupt, unsettle their permanent structure and a sense of certainty. Therefore, the Author follows closely the fear of strangeness and the nostalgic longing for the sense of feeling at home as depicted by David Lynch and Michael Haneke in their films. Then he passes on to the field of contemporary art which not only reveals the fact that something has happened to the house we have known so far, but it also allows for creative deconstruction of the feeling at home. The artistic works selected by the Author break the binary oppositions: one’s own/someone else’s, familiar/strange (Jessica Sue Layton), close/distant (Shizuka Yokomizo) and finally the most important one: interior/exterior (Marja Pirilä, Eve Dent).
Live-streamed lecture organized by the Royal Institute of Philosophy, London While Heidegger and Derrida both contributed groundbreaking reflections on hospitality (and “hostipitality”), they failed to recognize that the host-guest... more
Live-streamed lecture organized by the Royal Institute of Philosophy, London
While Heidegger and Derrida both contributed groundbreaking reflections on hospitality (and “hostipitality”), they failed to recognize that the host-guest relationship can only succeed if it is correlated with the notion of mutual guardianship. The lecture will describe historic guardian civilizations and then turn to Ricoeur’s linguistic hospitality as a possible blueprint for future cultural hospitality. However, the latter scenario will have no need for a third party, i.e., a “translator” who mediates between host and guest. The challenge consists of designing a host-guest relationship in which both parties become each other’s translators - and guardians.
This paper aims to review the article of Fides Bernardo Bitanga entitled "Derrida's Philosophy of Hospitality and the English Test". I will do this by discussing Bitanga's claim, reason, and evidence. In addition, I will give a brief... more
This paper aims to review the article of Fides Bernardo Bitanga entitled "Derrida's Philosophy of Hospitality and the English Test". I will do this by discussing Bitanga's claim, reason, and evidence. In addition, I will give a brief background of Derrida's concept of hospitality. Bitanga's main claim is that English test for Filipinos going abroad is not a form of hospitality, since it burdens that migrant. He proves his point by using the very notion of Derrida's work "Of Hospitality", and connects it with the underpinnings of International English Language Testing System (IELTS). At the end, genuine hospitality does not restrict the guests, but rather, gives the guests absolute freedom, without any conditions. This is what true hospitality meansto be totally free; if the contrary happens, this hospitality degrades into hostipitality, a hostile hospitality.
Hanif Kureishi, who has been the pioneer writer to voice the problems South Asian diasporas in Britain, attempts to establish an authentic order both for himself and similar South Asian subjects in My Ear at His Heart: Reading My Father.... more
Hanif Kureishi, who has been the pioneer writer to voice the problems South Asian diasporas in Britain, attempts to establish an authentic order both for himself and similar South Asian subjects in My Ear at His Heart: Reading My Father. Because many members of diasporic communities suffer from hostile attitudes in their new countries, Kureishi problematises the issue by digging into the relations between his family’s male members. By highlighting the hegemonic struggles between/among men in the Kureishi family, this study attempts to articulate the hospitable and hostile acts between both these men and two countries with reference to Derrida’s concept of hostipitality.
How do different cultural concepts of own/other's music interact in the interstices between cultures, both the close and distant ones? In order to answer this question properly, one has to build an approach to interculturality in music... more
How do different cultural concepts of own/other's music interact in the interstices between cultures, both the close and distant ones? In order to answer this question properly, one has to build an approach to interculturality in music that would critically draw on the thesis of fluid and contingent nature of musical cultures. Two instances of "cultural encounters" come from the world music/ethno music scene in Serbia: the first example features a musician of Serbian origin who broadens the scope of meanings concerning Serbian ethnic tradition, and the second refers to the placement of an Indian musician into a Serbian world music scene, that exemplifies negotiation over identity. This paper proposes a model of semi-autonomous zones of cultural encounters in and through music. The "zone" is a model of temporary re-configurations of a sameness/difference through the act of musicking, that allows for a paradoxical opening towards the Other.
The research explores the typical characteristics of the agricultural lifestyle of Tra Que, the status quo of conservation, and promotes the values in agricultural tourism development. The methodologies used are quantitative approach and... more
The research explores the typical characteristics of the agricultural lifestyle of Tra Que, the status quo of conservation, and promotes the values in agricultural tourism development. The methodologies used are quantitative approach and a qualitative approach in which semi-structured interviews are employed. Households participated in answering the survey questionnaires together with in-depth interviews with the two individuals. The Findings/Results of the study indicate that Tra Que Vegetable Village has many characteristic elements in the lifestyles that attract tourists, but the exploitation and preservation of values of agricultural lifestyles are not effective. The value/ originality of the study is that recognizing the role and importance of enhancing the conservation and promotion of agricultural lifestyle values in agro-tourism activities will further enhance the ability to attract Vietnamese tourists to visit the Village. The study is limited to the Tra Que Vegetable Village and its subject is Vietnamese tourists. Overall, the research focuses on the preservation and promotion of agro-tourism in Vietnam.
This article strives to investigate how the so-called Syrian refugee crisis is reflected in cinematic narratives by analyzing one of the first films on the topic by a Turkish filmmaker. Misafir (The Guest) (2017), directed and produced by... more
This article strives to investigate how the so-called Syrian refugee crisis is reflected in cinematic narratives by analyzing one of the first films on the topic by a Turkish filmmaker. Misafir (The Guest) (2017), directed and produced by Andaç Haznedaroğlu, proves to be significant as the first of its kind; a feature length fiction film dealing with the pressing issue of Syrian refugees in the Turkish context. Employing critical discourse analysis as the core methodological tool, this article includes a stylistic and thematic examination of the film. The analysis draws attention to the connection between textual and contextual properties that shape the discourse of the film. The film is analyzed within the conceptual framework of Jacques Derrida’s influential theorization of ‘hos(ti)pitality’. In line with Derrida’s discussion of hospitality, this article questions whether Syrian refugees are ‘the guests’ as claimed or ‘parasites’ in Turkey.
Since 1990 when Britain witnessed a spike in asylum applications, consecutive governments have adopted a stance towards asylum, whereby the interests of the state supersede those seeking asylum. By employing Jacques Derrida’s notion of... more
Since 1990 when Britain witnessed a spike in asylum applications, consecutive governments have adopted a stance towards asylum, whereby the interests of the state supersede those seeking asylum. By employing Jacques Derrida’s notion of hospitality and the politics of labelling, the article identifies five ways in which Conservative, New Labour and Conservative Liberal Democratic coalition governments have sought to establish the label of a genuine asylum seeker. Drawing upon parliamentary archives, the article presents a narrative of an idealised refugee figure that has been created through consecutive British governments, at the expense of the asylum seeker. Individuals who do not meet the genuine criteria are branded as failed, bogus asylum seekers, or more recently, immigrants, who abuse the system. The article argues that what we are witnessing within the British asylum system is the politics of hostipitality, whereby hostility is the overriding reaction to the asylum seeker.
We warmly invite proposals for papers for the conference Ambiguities of Hospitality in the Middle Ages, 1000-1350 to be held at Stockholm University on the 8-9 th September 2022. The conference is open to established and early career... more
We warmly invite proposals for papers for the conference Ambiguities of Hospitality in the Middle Ages, 1000-1350 to be held at Stockholm University on the 8-9 th September 2022. The conference is open to established and early career researchers as well as graduate students, and to scholars of the Middle Ages of all disciplinary backgrounds, including but not limited to historians, archaeologists as well as scholars of literature and art.
This paper reflects upon the work of a pilot psychotherapy project which aimed to engage 'adults facing chronic exclusion' (Cabinet Office, 2006a, 2006b). It is written by members of a supervision group (GB, KK, CM, JO, AT) and their... more
This paper reflects upon the work of a pilot psychotherapy project which aimed to engage 'adults facing chronic exclusion' (Cabinet Office, 2006a, 2006b). It is written by members of a supervision group (GB, KK, CM, JO, AT) and their supervisor (JA), working within a homelessness charity with funding from cross-departmental government sources. Within an ethos of an 'open door' offer of therapy to those who would accept it, the project sought to offer helpful 'hospitality' to individuals whose chronic problems excluded them from both society in general and also from mainstream psychotherapy provision. Encounters and transactions at the threshold of the project enabled us to interrogate our pre-existing assumptions about our task. Individuals who would not accept the offer of psychotherapy on the terms we set out did nevertheless often invest in attachments made in the liminal space, placing in question both our socio-political brief and our clinical assumptions. Derrida's discussion of hospitality (Derrida and Dufourmantelle, 1997/2000; Derrida, 1999/2000) provides a conceptual frame in which to attend to the dynamics of making an offer such as ours. We explore meanings of the acceptance, rejection and negotiation of hospitality, both in the client group and as reflected in our own supervision process. The paper examines the psycho-social context of the initiative and offers a critique of its conflicting objectives and the 'impossible task' that the project was given, or took upon itself.
