Hassan, Ihab. ‘Extraterritorial: Exile, Diaspora, and the Ground under Your Feet’. Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging, edited by Klaus Stierstorfer and Florian Kläger, DE GRUYTER, 2015, pp. 21–34, https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110408614-003.

'The body, that is, not only as a social or economic entity, and not only as the refuge of exiles who sew their lips and of artists who mutilate themselves – including their genitals – but also as the ground of both intimate and historical experience.' (23)

'It defines in black, never in white, the Other, that same Other who is part of ourselves, and without whom we do not know who we are. I mean the Other who also lives in the pronouns of language, especially that dread pronoun, Them.' (26)

--> I don’t understand, I will re-read

-->Read Read: Regarding diasporas in a digital era

--> Interconnectivity of cultures and identity but also the seperation of the self/world - the digital self/world and the traditional/irl self/world

--> Connections to serial experiments lain

--> Grounding discourse in the self and what the self has or has not experinced

--> Toni Morrison mention fuck yeah

--> The body as the home

--> for me as my body is a container, a prison gaurd, and a trap

--> Diaspora as alienation, as having no home

'Well, it’s no big deal, really: human beings have been always addicted to self-creation - we are all rattletrap fantasy machines.' (24)

--> identity/self/home as a fantasy/un-lived lived reality

--> English as the seen/presumed ‘normal’ language and its global dominance and invasion

--> Diaspora as hybrid

--> Democracy is a joke atp

'Oh, we tell ourselves, with an indulgent smile, these men embody a passing moment in history – a feeble resurgence of medievalism – and their power will surely crumble before global capitalism and the Internet. Really? I, for one, doubt that dictators simply betray the deformities of nationalism in a transitional, postcolonial period.' (28)

--> On power structures and implications of such

Kalra, Virinder, et al. ‘Hybridity and Openness (or, Whose Side Are You On?)’. Diaspora & Hybridity, SAGE Publications, Limited, 2005, pp. 87–104, https://doi.org/10.4135/9781446221372.n6.

--> Identity politics in relation to place

'The idea of the national is threatened by the consequences of a serious consideration of diaspora and hybridity.' (3)

--> Borders, nations, identity, all social constructs?

'In this conception, hybridity is a contender for a ‘new model’ of social possibility that will assert ‘uncertainty’ as its political guide.' (4)

'Here and there, the host and the visitor; as with all ascribed positions, these entail degrees of implied uniformity that oftentimes congeal into hardened categories. The very idea of a ‘host’ and an ‘arrivee’ culture assumes a degree of non-hybridity which is difficult to sustain unless there is an insistence on an unbridgeable difference between the here and the there.' (4)

--> Host = homeland = not hybrid = property ownership

'Diversity is the codeword that foregrounds the marketable aspects of neglected and run-down inner-urban areas while maintaining a hegemonic base for capital and the conventions of the old and established.' (5)

--> Race as hybrid; race as a social construct

'The problem, of course, with these ‘modest aspirations’ that would allow (constructed, projected, essentialized) racial difference to pale into insignificance is that [civic] ‘reciprocity’ – or gift exchange – is well known in anthropology and philosophy as a kind of trick or gamble, bound up indeed with an economy of debt and obligation, as well as theft and extortion.' (8)

'Hospitality is political; there are no altruistic gifts and the ideal world of exact reciprocity cannot be conjured into place without massive redress of already established disequilibria (Bataille 1988; Derrida 1992)' (8)

--> Cant be forced to be welcoming

'However attractive the idea, however fragile the concept, it is not yet time to disregard (the effects of) ‘race’ as a criteria for assessing the extent of redress and reparation for crimes committed on the basis of racism.' (9)

--> One can admit race is a social construct and still understand the effects of race and racism

'Yet the project of cultural diversity was first of all claimed by the elite classes, those children of the upper classes sent to view the art and culture of Europe, now transmuted into Peace Corps and NGO volunteerism by the charity-set bent on bringing democracy and decency to the downtrodden.' (11)

--> Hypocrisy

--> On borders?

'The issue is not over-population, and to use this as criteria for limiting redistribution is the ideological programme excused by the urbanization-causes-hybridity thesis. What must be analysed as more than a descriptive condition are the turbulent effects of population migration that, glossed as diaspora and settlement, has rearranged the necessities of struggle and life.' (15)

--> Alienation of the migrant, the other

'On this planet it is the local ‘aliens’ who are a terminological problem for sociological classification as much as for state administration. Talk of urbanization processes reveals the ways descriptions congeal into a conceptual refusal to recognize settlement, opting instead for models of arrivals, second generations, immigrants, hybrids – as if these categories were ever stable and could be applied to really existing groups of people.' (16)

--> Sci-fi issues and fantasy racism thoughts

--> Hybridity as dialectics