From now on, besides the book reviews for constiinte.ro, you can also find some other writings of mine on this portal, in the format of one-two page news and reviews of geopolitics (as well in Romanian, so I wouldn't recommend it for my non-Romanian friends).
That's it for now.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Friday, September 7, 2012
Always the other and otherness
I (we) tend to talk a lot about "the other" and "otherness" and tend to use this theme as a go-to when explaining anthropological matters. I've wondered a couple of times whether the same things on which a study or another focuses could be perfectly explained (and emphasizing the same causal explanation) not using the whole other narrative. But then the thought just passed slipped my mind, as the reading or writing I was engaged into was most probably required for an objective very "in the now".
Reading Marc Augé - who is a brilliant theoretician of postmodernity and redefined spatiality, by the way, so if you like works like Bauman and post-structuralists like Foucault you should really see some of his writings as well - I came across this interesting passage:
Reading Marc Augé - who is a brilliant theoretician of postmodernity and redefined spatiality, by the way, so if you like works like Bauman and post-structuralists like Foucault you should really see some of his writings as well - I came across this interesting passage:
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anthropology,
marc augé,
other,
postmodern
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