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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/18/16 6:50 PM, Alva Mooses wrote:<br>
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Hola,<br>
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It depends on the double intersection of how the open the
communities are to the immigrants and to what degree a
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ground has been staged by those immigrants that came before. <br>
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Some individuals may never become a part of that the communities
they end up living for the rest of their lives-another Alex Rivera<br>
film about his own father, who spends all his non-work life watching
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An experimental video about immigration. Looking at the potato
(which was first cultivated in Peru) Papapapá paints a picture of a
vegetable that has traveled and been transformed—following the
migrating potato North where it becomes the potato chip, the couch
potato, and the french fry. Papapapá simultaneously follows another
Peruvian in motion, the artist’s father, Augusto Rivera. The stories
of the two immigrants, the potato and Papa Rivera, converge as
Augusto becomes a Peruvian couch potato, sitting on an American
sofa, eating potato chips and watching Spanish language television.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.vdb.org/titles/papapapa">http://www.vdb.org/titles/papapapa</a><br>
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Yes, the question of "hospitality" is a core issue. This also echos
for me Derrida's 'possible’ conception of hospitality, in which our
most well-intentioned conceptions of hospitality render the "other
others" as strangers and refugees. Whether one invokes the current
international preoccupation with border control, or simply the
ubiquitous suburban fence and alarm system, it seems that
hospitality always posits some kind of limit upon where the other
can trespass, and hence has a tendency to be rather inhospitable. On
the other hand, as well as demanding some kind of mastery of house,
country or nation, there is a sense in which the notion of
hospitality demands a welcoming of whomever, or whatever, may be in
need of that hospitality. It follows from this that unconditional
hospitality, or we might say 'impossible' hospitality, hence
involves a relinquishing of judgement and control in regard to who
will receive that hospitality. In other words, hospitality also
requires non-mastery, and the abandoning of all claims to property,
or ownership. If that is the case, however, the ongoing possibility
of hospitality thereby becomes circumvented, as there is no longer
the possibility of hosting anyone, as again, there is no ownership
or control.
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Yes, I agree, who is integrated, who is welcomed-as a number of
participants on the list serv has pointed is about class integration
speeds and abilities in the new space.<br>
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And yes, remittance culture is the call of home that one wants to
return to-to be "homeless" to produce or maintain "home" as a
possibility.<br>
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By transversing the fantasy, the impossible, the field of dreams (a
baseball field) they do create agency in the fractalilty of being
"homeless."<br>
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This is always/already the state of un-documented existences and the
always/already condition of networked cultures to some degree.<br>
The condition of virtual immigration states of being. <br>
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Sorry for the long response, Alva.<br>
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Very best,<br>
Ricardo<br>
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