Sublime

Identity, according to Cavarero, is not something that we innately possess and reveal, but something we understand through narratives provided to us by others.

While we still seem to be caught in the treacherous segue between stories, those cast as victims in old master narratives are writing themselves anew.

At the same time, none of us are captured by the categories by which we gain recognition. I am that name you give me, but I am also something else that cannot quite be named. The relation to the unnameable is perhaps a way of maintaining a relation to the other that exceeds any and all capture. That means that something about the other can be index

There, she argued that the question of the relationship between our physical constraints and the assertion of our freedom is not a ‘problem’ requiring a solution. It is simply the way human beings are. Our condition is to be ambiguous to the core, and our task is to learn to manage the movement and uncertainty in our existence, not to banish it.

alterity,