Beschreibung:
This book addresses issues connected with political, ontological, existential, and spiritual borders that define our being-in-common. Engaging with various debordering practices relating to migration, the media, hospitality, and the more than human world, it is a timely contribution to contemporary philosophical, political, and social studies.
Borders / Debordering: Topologies, Praxes, Hospitableness engages from interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives some of the most important issues of the present, which lay at the intersection of physical, epistemological, spiritual, and existential borders. The book addresses a variety of topics connected with the role of the body at the threshold between subjective identities and intersubjective spaces that are drawn in ontology, epistemology and ethics, as well as with borders inscribed in intersubjective, social, and political spaces (such as gender/sexuality/race, human/animal/nature/technology divisions).
The book is divided in three sections, covering various phenomena of borders and their possible debordering. The first section offers insights into bordering topologies, from reflections on the U.S. border to the development of the concept of the “border” in ancient China. The second section is dedicated to practices as well as intellectual ontologies with practical implications bound up with borders in different cultural and social spheres – from Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka and Myanmar to contemporary photography with its implications for political systems and reflections on human/animal border. The third section covers reflections on hospitality that relate to migration issues, emerging material ethics, and aerial hospitableness.
Tomaž Grušovnik, Eduardo Mendieta, Lenart Škof
Introduction
Part I: Bordering Topologies
Chapter 1: Edward S. Casey
Moving Over the Edge: Borders, Boundaries, and Bodies
Chapter 2: Mary Watkins
From Hospitality to Mutual Accompaniment: Addressing Soul Loss in the Citizen-Neighbor
Chapter 3: Eduardo Mendieta
Lethal Borders and Mobile Panopticons: Thanatological Dispositifs
Chapter 4: Helena Motoh
Borders in Between—The Concept of Border(ing) in Early Chinese History
Part II: Debordering Praxes
Chapter 5: Victor Forte
Buddhist Nationalism and Marginalizing Rhetoric in a Dependently Originated World
Chapter 6: Mary Leonard
Borders and Debordering in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Photography: Icon, Mosaic, and Flow
Chapter 7: Reingard Spannring
The Chicken and the Educator: Debordering Critical Pedagogy in the Anthropocene
Chapter 8: Tomaž Grušovnik
Debordering Ethics: Acknowledging Animal Morality
Part III: Worlding Hospitableness
Chapter 9: Klaus-Gerd Giesen
Debordering Academia: From the Philosophy of Hospitality to the Practice of Hospitableness
Chapter 10: Petri Berndtson
Cultivating a Respiratory and Aerial Culture of Hospitality
Chapter 11: Lenart Škof
Lamentation for a Child: On Migration, Vulnerability, and Ethics of Hospitality
Chapter 12: Shé Hawke
Graft versus Host: Waters that Convey and Harbors that Reject Liminal Subjects—Towards a New Ethics of Hospitality
About the Contributors