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Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality by Sara Ahmed
4.0
Ahmed posits that before either the self or other, there is the encounter.
Both self and other arise in the after image of its initiation.
The self then, can be nothing more than its embodied interactions, and the other, its counter image, its double.
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Ahmed also looks into the phenomenon of "stranger danger," positing that to recognise a stranger, is to already have captured (a false) Otherness into discourse.
The stranger, rather than being utterly unknown, is in fact, always-already predicated on recognisable attributes (e.g. the gendered and racialised depictions of "terrorists" since the end of the Cold War, into 9/11).
The stranger then, is kept at distance by its very proximity--our ability to discern strangeness.
They are included but utterly alienated.
Both self and other arise in the after image of its initiation.
The self then, can be nothing more than its embodied interactions, and the other, its counter image, its double.
--
Ahmed also looks into the phenomenon of "stranger danger," positing that to recognise a stranger, is to already have captured (a false) Otherness into discourse.
The stranger, rather than being utterly unknown, is in fact, always-already predicated on recognisable attributes (e.g. the gendered and racialised depictions of "terrorists" since the end of the Cold War, into 9/11).
The stranger then, is kept at distance by its very proximity--our ability to discern strangeness.
They are included but utterly alienated.