TY - CHAP
T1 - Excess of hospitality
T2 - Critical semiopraxis and theoretical risks in postcolonial justice
AU - Grosso, José Luis
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - From his/her point of view, for who arrives, American communities and persons range between cryptic taciturnity and naive reception: beside the grim silence, the friendly gesture. But the foreigner dimly perceives that in the act of receiving that people opens up a site and give a new place that recreate in large the entire constellation of relationships. There, archaic epistemic-practical matrixes of creation show their greatest flexibility through and along the adversities of colonialism. These silent languages are the semiopraxis of sacrifice in which an extreme gift from other space-times introduces new beings in ritual relationships. Amidst them, we are transformed, we become others. Colonial ethics is inverted/invested by an excessive hospitality. Silence, delay, and affection abruptly touch the edges of the dominant order that is dislocated. We, as former (and perhaps permanent) strange, arrogant, armored upstarts, have ignored and despised this justice that comes from others who do not dominate.
AB - From his/her point of view, for who arrives, American communities and persons range between cryptic taciturnity and naive reception: beside the grim silence, the friendly gesture. But the foreigner dimly perceives that in the act of receiving that people opens up a site and give a new place that recreate in large the entire constellation of relationships. There, archaic epistemic-practical matrixes of creation show their greatest flexibility through and along the adversities of colonialism. These silent languages are the semiopraxis of sacrifice in which an extreme gift from other space-times introduces new beings in ritual relationships. Amidst them, we are transformed, we become others. Colonial ethics is inverted/invested by an excessive hospitality. Silence, delay, and affection abruptly touch the edges of the dominant order that is dislocated. We, as former (and perhaps permanent) strange, arrogant, armored upstarts, have ignored and despised this justice that comes from others who do not dominate.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84944535471&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-1-4939-1689-4_6
DO - 10.1007/978-1-4939-1689-4_6
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84944535471
SN - 9781493916887
T3 - Ethical Archaeologies: The Politics of Social Justice
SP - 79
EP - 101
BT - After Ethics
A2 - Haber, Alejandro
A2 - Shepherd, Nick
PB - Springer
CY - New York
ER -