Sublime

this right form of intimacy is itself perversely the image of the couple or the family witnessing the program,

global villages.

anachronism,

Julia Kristeva, Ishiguro, Moacyr Scliar, Magris, Semprun, Baricco, Updike

nebbish,

By articulating sex in public as an improper use of public space and a flawed model of sociality, the management and policing of these spaces and practices can be read as

of course the very idea of the exotic, as we know from all kinds of postcolonial theories of tourism and orientalism, depends upon an increasingly outdated notion of the domestic, the familiar, and the known, all of which come into being by positing a relation to the foreign, the alien, and the indecipherable.

thinking about alterity and difference that has become a useful critical tool for feminist, antiracist, and other political work.

wider significance of the postmodern condition lies in the awareness that the epistemological ‘limits’ of those ethnocentric ideas are also the enunciative boundaries of a range of other dissonant, even dissident histories and voices – women, the colonized, minority groups, the bearers of policed sexualities.