#otherness — Public Fediverse posts

A Trip to the Moon

History, Artemis, and Humanity’s Space Junk

There is something almost innocent, at first glance, about Georges Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon. The painted sets, the theatrical gestures, the famous image of the capsule lodged in the eye of the moon — all of it feels whimsical, handmade, full of wonder. It bears the marks of ingenuity in their freshest form. Cinema is still young. Imagination is learning what machinery can do. Human beings are discovering that they can build not only devices, but dreams.

And yet, to watch the film closely is to feel a disturbance beneath the delight.

The voyage is not simply a journey. It is an invasion. The moon is not approached with humility or reverence, but penetrated, subdued, and turned into a stage for conquest. The lunar beings are encountered not as neighbors in wonder but as hostile “natives,” there to be struck, shattered, and overcome. The travelers return not merely with experience, but with a captive and a triumphal procession. What looks at first like fantasy reveals itself as a little parable of empire.

That is why the film still matters. It is not only an early science-fiction spectacle. It is an early warning.

Read the full essay at PeaceGrooves.

A Trip to the Moon

History, Artemis, and Humanity’s Space Junk

There is something almost innocent, at first glance, about Georges Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon. The painted sets, the theatrical gestures, the famous image of the capsule lodged in the eye of the moon — all of it feels whimsical, handmade, full of wonder. It bears the marks of ingenuity in their freshest form. Cinema is still young. Imagination is learning what machinery can do. Human beings are discovering that they can build not only devices, but dreams.

And yet, to watch the film closely is to feel a disturbance beneath the delight.

The voyage is not simply a journey. It is an invasion. The moon is not approached with humility or reverence, but penetrated, subdued, and turned into a stage for conquest. The lunar beings are encountered not as neighbors in wonder but as hostile “natives,” there to be struck, shattered, and overcome. The travelers return not merely with experience, but with a captive and a triumphal procession. What looks at first like fantasy reveals itself as a little parable of empire.

That is why the film still matters. It is not only an early science-fiction spectacle. It is an early warning.

Read the full essay at PeaceGrooves.

#newissue

Uno #specialissue di #AltreModernità che analizza l'eredità del Contemporary #CulturalStudies di Birmingham attraverso tre interviste ad Angela McRobbie, Lynne Segal e Iain Chambers.
E ancora: il linguaggio come pratica sociale alle rappresentazioni di classe, il colonialismo in #HeartOfDarkness e l’#otherness in #HanifKureishi, l'identità #queer nella poetica di Kae Tempest, la genealogia della #FashionTheory, e molto altro...

@cultura

⬇️ In #openaccess qui: https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/issue/view/2776?mtm_campaign=mastodon

#newissue

Uno #specialissue di #AltreModernità che analizza l'eredità del Contemporary #CulturalStudies di Birmingham attraverso tre interviste ad Angela McRobbie, Lynne Segal e Iain Chambers.
E ancora: il linguaggio come pratica sociale alle rappresentazioni di classe, il colonialismo in #HeartOfDarkness e l’#otherness in #HanifKureishi, l'identità #queer nella poetica di Kae Tempest, la genealogia della #FashionTheory, e molto altro...

@cultura

⬇️ In #openaccess qui: https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/issue/view/2776?mtm_campaign=mastodon

#newissue

Uno #specialissue di #AltreModernità che analizza l'eredità del Contemporary #CulturalStudies di Birmingham attraverso tre interviste ad Angela McRobbie, Lynne Segal e Iain Chambers.
E ancora: il linguaggio come pratica sociale alle rappresentazioni di classe, il colonialismo in #HeartOfDarkness e l’#otherness in #HanifKureishi, l'identità #queer nella poetica di Kae Tempest, la genealogia della #FashionTheory, e molto altro...

@cultura

⬇️ In #openaccess qui: https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/issue/view/2776?mtm_campaign=mastodon

#newissue

Uno #specialissue di #AltreModernità che analizza l'eredità del Contemporary #CulturalStudies di Birmingham attraverso tre interviste ad Angela McRobbie, Lynne Segal e Iain Chambers.
E ancora: il linguaggio come pratica sociale alle rappresentazioni di classe, il colonialismo in #HeartOfDarkness e l’#otherness in #HanifKureishi, l'identità #queer nella poetica di Kae Tempest, la genealogia della #FashionTheory, e molto altro...

@cultura

⬇️ In #openaccess qui: https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/issue/view/2776?mtm_campaign=mastodon

#newissue

Uno #specialissue di #AltreModernità che analizza l'eredità del Contemporary #CulturalStudies di Birmingham attraverso tre interviste ad Angela McRobbie, Lynne Segal e Iain Chambers.
E ancora: il linguaggio come pratica sociale alle rappresentazioni di classe, il colonialismo in #HeartOfDarkness e l’#otherness in #HanifKureishi, l'identità #queer nella poetica di Kae Tempest, la genealogia della #FashionTheory, e molto altro...

@cultura

⬇️ In #openaccess qui: https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/issue/view/2776?mtm_campaign=mastodon

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#meme #nostalgia #melancholy #weirdcore #otherness

Response to the alien: Corporeal experience between selfhood and otherness

"The topographical enquiries that Waldenfels presents assume that the Other not only has its own times, but its own locations as well."

A Topography of the Other, Studies for a Phenomenology of the Other 1, Bernhard Waldenfels >>
https://www.suhrkamp.de/rights/book/bernhard-waldenfels-a-topography-of-the-other-fr-9783518289204

Phenomenology of the Alien, Basic Concepts, by Bernhard Waldenfels >>
https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810127579/phenomenology-of-the-alien/
#interculturality #otherness #modernity #violence #experience #IntersubjectiveNormatively #alien #monolingualism #nationalism #foreigners #EthnoNationalism #phenomenology #EpistemicInjustice #dehumanisation #book

Response to the alien: Corporeal experience between selfhood and otherness

"The topographical enquiries that Waldenfels presents assume that the Other not only has its own times, but its own locations as well."

A Topography of the Other, Studies for a Phenomenology of the Other 1, Bernhard Waldenfels >>
https://www.suhrkamp.de/rights/book/bernhard-waldenfels-a-topography-of-the-other-fr-9783518289204

Phenomenology of the Alien, Basic Concepts, by Bernhard Waldenfels >>
https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810127579/phenomenology-of-the-alien/
#interculturality #otherness #modernity #violence #experience #IntersubjectiveNormatively #alien #monolingualism #nationalism #foreigners #EthnoNationalism #phenomenology #EpistemicInjustice #dehumanisation #book

Response to the alien: Corporeal experience between selfhood and otherness

"The topographical enquiries that Waldenfels presents assume that the Other not only has its own times, but its own locations as well."

A Topography of the Other, Studies for a Phenomenology of the Other 1, Bernhard Waldenfels >>
https://www.suhrkamp.de/rights/book/bernhard-waldenfels-a-topography-of-the-other-fr-9783518289204

Phenomenology of the Alien, Basic Concepts, by Bernhard Waldenfels >>
https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810127579/phenomenology-of-the-alien/
#interculturality #otherness #modernity #violence #experience #IntersubjectiveNormatively #alien #monolingualism #nationalism #foreigners #EthnoNationalism #phenomenology #EpistemicInjustice #dehumanisation #book

Response to the alien: Corporeal experience between selfhood and otherness

"The topographical enquiries that Waldenfels presents assume that the Other not only has its own times, but its own locations as well."

A Topography of the Other, Studies for a Phenomenology of the Other 1, Bernhard Waldenfels >>
https://www.suhrkamp.de/rights/book/bernhard-waldenfels-a-topography-of-the-other-fr-9783518289204

Phenomenology of the Alien, Basic Concepts, by Bernhard Waldenfels >>
https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810127579/phenomenology-of-the-alien/
#interculturality #otherness #modernity #violence #experience #IntersubjectiveNormatively #alien #monolingualism #nationalism #foreigners #EthnoNationalism #phenomenology #EpistemicInjustice #dehumanisation #book

Response to the alien: Corporeal experience between selfhood and otherness

"The topographical enquiries that Waldenfels presents assume that the Other not only has its own times, but its own locations as well."

A Topography of the Other, Studies for a Phenomenology of the Other 1, Bernhard Waldenfels >>
https://www.suhrkamp.de/rights/book/bernhard-waldenfels-a-topography-of-the-other-fr-9783518289204

Phenomenology of the Alien, Basic Concepts, by Bernhard Waldenfels >>
https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810127579/phenomenology-of-the-alien/
#interculturality #otherness #modernity #violence #experience #IntersubjectiveNormatively #alien #monolingualism #nationalism #foreigners #EthnoNationalism #phenomenology #EpistemicInjustice #dehumanisation #book

Where I end and you begin

There's a gap in between
There's a gap where we meet
Where I end and you begin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyTY6Z-Fqzw

From Bruce Fink’s Against Understanding vol 2:

In Lacan’s view, no such intersubjectivity is possible because there is always a fundamental hiatus or disjunction—a misunderstanding or missed understanding—between people, because first of all, we tend to misunderstand ourselves (not wanting to know certain things about ourselves), and second, because we misunderstand each other (projecting onto others what we ourselves think, or believe we would feel were we in their shoes, not to mention jumping to conclusions about what they have said

From Bruce Fink’s Against Understanding vol 1:

There is something unknown there, something mysterious, something opaque. This Other knows something about the world that I do not know, this Other has a knowledge of things that I do not have (indeed, this Other might be understood to be the model for what is referred to as the all-knowing or omniscient God in a certain number of religions).

I will eat you alive
I will eat you alive
I will eat you alive
I will eat you alive
And there'll be no more lies
There'll be no more lies
There'll be no more lies
There'll be no more lies

#otherness #pyschoanalysis #radiohead

Other half sent me this as they were reading it , got halfway down and realised it perfectly describes me.
#otrovert #otherness
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/aug/24/dont-like-joining-in-why-it-could-be-your-superpower#comments

Other half sent me this as they were reading it , got halfway down and realised it perfectly describes me.
#otrovert #otherness
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/aug/24/dont-like-joining-in-why-it-could-be-your-superpower#comments

Other half sent me this as they were reading it , got halfway down and realised it perfectly describes me.
#otrovert #otherness
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/aug/24/dont-like-joining-in-why-it-could-be-your-superpower#comments

Other half sent me this as they were reading it , got halfway down and realised it perfectly describes me.
#otrovert #otherness
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/aug/24/dont-like-joining-in-why-it-could-be-your-superpower#comments

Other half sent me this as they were reading it , got halfway down and realised it perfectly describes me.
#otrovert #otherness
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/aug/24/dont-like-joining-in-why-it-could-be-your-superpower#comments

'What distinguishes Wittig's theoretical, political and literary project, and makes it an unavoidable pole of intellectual attraction today, is its radical anti-essentialism. It's the radical anti-essentialism that Wittig applies to the most credible of beliefs, because of the strength of its naturalization: the idea that men and women are naturally complementary "natural groups".'

Sara Garbagnoli explained in 2023: https://www.moniquewittig.com/wp-content/uploads/Sara-in-AOC-english.pdf 🧶

#revolution #reciprocity #radicality #reversibility #materialistFeminism #materialism #beliefs #subjugation #naturalism #essentialism #sexism #heteroSexism #heteroNormativity #feminisms #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #literature #homosexuality #lesbianism #feminism #internationalism #patriarchy #minorityStudies #queer #nonBinary #culturalHistory #lesbians #otherness #linguistics

'What distinguishes Wittig's theoretical, political and literary project, and makes it an unavoidable pole of intellectual attraction today, is its radical anti-essentialism. It's the radical anti-essentialism that Wittig applies to the most credible of beliefs, because of the strength of its naturalization: the idea that men and women are naturally complementary "natural groups".'

Sara Garbagnoli explained in 2023: https://www.moniquewittig.com/wp-content/uploads/Sara-in-AOC-english.pdf 🧶

#revolution #reciprocity #radicality #reversibility #materialistFeminism #materialism #beliefs #subjugation #naturalism #essentialism #sexism #heteroSexism #heteroNormativity #feminisms #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #literature #homosexuality #lesbianism #feminism #internationalism #patriarchy #minorityStudies #queer #nonBinary #culturalHistory #lesbians #otherness #linguistics

'What distinguishes Wittig's theoretical, political and literary project, and makes it an unavoidable pole of intellectual attraction today, is its radical anti-essentialism. It's the radical anti-essentialism that Wittig applies to the most credible of beliefs, because of the strength of its naturalization: the idea that men and women are naturally complementary "natural groups".'

Sara Garbagnoli explained in 2023: https://www.moniquewittig.com/wp-content/uploads/Sara-in-AOC-english.pdf 🧶

#revolution #reciprocity #radicality #reversibility #materialistFeminism #materialism #beliefs #subjugation #naturalism #essentialism #sexism #heteroSexism #heteroNormativity #feminisms #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #literature #homosexuality #lesbianism #feminism #internationalism #patriarchy #minorityStudies #queer #nonBinary #culturalHistory #lesbians #otherness #linguistics

'What distinguishes Wittig's theoretical, political and literary project, and makes it an unavoidable pole of intellectual attraction today, is its radical anti-essentialism. It's the radical anti-essentialism that Wittig applies to the most credible of beliefs, because of the strength of its naturalization: the idea that men and women are naturally complementary "natural groups".'

Sara Garbagnoli explained in 2023: https://www.moniquewittig.com/wp-content/uploads/Sara-in-AOC-english.pdf 🧶

#revolution #reciprocity #radicality #reversibility #materialistFeminism #materialism #beliefs #subjugation #naturalism #essentialism #sexism #heteroSexism #heteroNormativity #feminisms #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #literature #homosexuality #lesbianism #feminism #internationalism #patriarchy #minorityStudies #queer #nonBinary #culturalHistory #lesbians #otherness #linguistics

'What distinguishes Wittig's theoretical, political and literary project, and makes it an unavoidable pole of intellectual attraction today, is its radical anti-essentialism. It's the radical anti-essentialism that Wittig applies to the most credible of beliefs, because of the strength of its naturalization: the idea that men and women are naturally complementary "natural groups".'

Sara Garbagnoli explained in 2023: https://www.moniquewittig.com/wp-content/uploads/Sara-in-AOC-english.pdf 🧶

#revolution #reciprocity #radicality #reversibility #materialistFeminism #materialism #beliefs #subjugation #naturalism #essentialism #sexism #heteroSexism #heteroNormativity #feminisms #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #literature #homosexuality #lesbianism #feminism #internationalism #patriarchy #minorityStudies #queer #nonBinary #culturalHistory #lesbians #otherness #linguistics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_y2f6Du_rM

#DemocracyNow

'To Save and to Destroy': #VieytThanhNguyen on New #Book Exploring #Otherness, #Refugees, #Gaza & More

How should we treat beings that might be sentient? : Being aware of the maybe self-aware / Lindsey Laughlin, Ars Technica, 30.11.24

A book argues that we've not thought enough about things that might think.

#selfawareness #otherness #compassion #nonviolence

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/11/how-should-we-treat-beings-that-might-be-sentient/

“If possible, of course, some bad luck could be produced for the victims or for their institution. Pranks, you know. But again, this is not necessary, and may even get in the way of our pure experiment in mind-fuck and image-manipulation. Let the bastards produce their own bad luck out of their inner sadness at being such evil assholes, out of their atavistic superstition (without which they wouldn’t be such media-wizards), out of their fear of otherness, out of their repressed sexuality. You can be sure they will – or at least, that they’ll remember the ‘curse’ every time something bad happens to them.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2023/11/28/if-possible-of-course-some-bad-luck-could-be-produced-for-the-victims-or-for-their-institution-pranks-you-know-but-again-this-is-not-necessary-and-may-even-get-in-the-way-of-our-pure-experime/

First #film at #ForbiddenWorlds in #Bristol - Prey (1977).

Is it #QueerHorror? Maybe... #Queerness isn't central to the narrative, per se, but the idea of #otherness absolutely is.

Very fun and funny overall, in that late 70s #horror styleee!
IMDb: : Prey
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086872/

@StvNo I’ve felt like an #imposter in one way or another most of my life. I’m slowly trying to silence that voice in my head, that nagging feeling. It never completely goes away.

For me, the power of #community is learning from each others #insecurities. Learning that we can share our vulnerabilities, Discover that we are more genuine that we realize, when we’re among our kind(s) and can put aside voices decrying our #otherness or #pathology. #ActuallyAutistc @devxvda

The conference ends with an excellent presentation by Tone Stangeland Kaufman about manifest absence and otherness in Nordic Practical Theological research.

#practicaltheology #otherness

As the #US continues the march toward #theocracy our #LGBTQ citizens are under attack.

This despicable fear of #otherness is a futile attempt for #WhiteSupremacy to further entrench itself into law.

It will not work, but neither did the #ThirdReich - that doesn’t lessen the devastation they were allowed to inflict on #marginalized communities.

It’s time to stand - they’re attacking all fronts. We must repel and shame them forever.

Quoting @ProPublica: https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/109965697360698833 #retoot

I thought the better I made Christmas, the more American I would feel

#Christmas #ImmigrantKids #Otherness
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/christmas-perfection-became-way-solidifying-american-identity-rcna59457

I thought the better I made Christmas, the more American I would feel

#Christmas #ImmigrantKids #Otherness
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/christmas-perfection-became-way-solidifying-american-identity-rcna59457

Cary Wolfe on “Another Moral Vocabulary”

This is from Natasha Lennard’s 2017 interview with Cary Wolfe in The Stone:

On the one hand, rights discourse is Exhibit A for the problems with philosophical humanism. Many of us, including myself, would agree that many of the ethical aspirations of humanism are quite admirable and we should continue to pursue them. For example, most of us would probably agree that treating animals cruelly, and justifying that treatment on the basis of their designation as “animal” rather than human, is a bad thing to do.

But the problem with how rights discourse addresses this problem — in animal rights philosophy, for example — is that animals end up having some kind of moral standing insofar as they are diminished versions of us: that is to say, insofar as they are possessed of various characteristics such as the capacity to experience suffering — and not just brute physical suffering but emotional duress as well — that we human beings possess more fully. And so we end up reinstating a normative form of the moral-subject-as-human that we wanted to move beyond in the first place.

So on the other hand, what one wants to do is to find a way of valuing nonhuman life not because it is some diminished or second-class form of the human, but because the diversity and abundance of life is to be valued for what it is in its own right, in its difference and uniqueness. An elephant or a dolphin or a chimpanzee isn’t worthy of respect because it embodies some normative form of the “human” plus or minus a handful of relevant moral characteristics. It’s worthy of respect for reasons that call upon us to come up with another moral vocabulary, a vocabulary that starts by acknowledging that whatever it is we value ethically and morally in various forms of life, it has nothing to do with the biological designation of “human” or “animal.”

Having said all that, there are many, many contexts in which rights discourse is the coin of the realm when you’re engaged in these arguments — and that’s not surprising, given that nearly all of our political and legal institutions are inherited from the brief historical period (ecologically speaking) in which humanism flourished and consolidated its domain. If you’re talking to a state legislature about strengthening laws for animal abuse cases, let’s say, instead of addressing a room full of people at a conference on deconstruction and philosophy about the various problematic assumptions built into rights discourse, then you better be able to use a different vocabulary and different rhetorical tools if you want to make good on your ethical commitments. That’s true even though those commitments and how you think about them might well be informed by a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the problem than would be available to those legislators. In other words, it’s only partly a philosophical question. It’s also a strategic question, one of location, context and audience, and it shouldn’t surprise anyone that we can move more quickly in the realm of academic philosophical discourse on these questions than we can in the realm of legal and political institutions.

#abundance #animalRights #animals #authority #caryWolfe #commitment #difference #diversity #ethicalCommitments #human #humanism #humanity #legalStanding #life #moralAuthority #moralPhilosophy #moralStanding #moralVocabulary #morality #otherness #power #sharedCommitment #standing #theHuman

As a #neurodivergent #CisHet (and somewhat feminine) white male, I've always enjoyed #QueerFriendly spaces. First off, talking openly about sex & drugs seems more normative (and more interesting/less creepy) here. And acceptance/curiosity about #otherness is higher. Less mental load for me, and a better signal-to-noise ratio. And I don't need to be the center of attention (unless we're at work, see above). 6/N