Saturday, November 21, 2009
Picturing the Other:
I have an interesting take on this assignment. This is a photo of a cat (the ultimate other being animal). On top of this the cat is looking through the closed window to the outside world. The picture is snapped as a person is walking by the cat's boarder to the other world, which is outside. I thought this acted as a cool metaphor.
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Jacques Derrida's last book is anchored by a mediation on his cat looking at him naked (as in humans no longer belong in the Garden of Eden):
ReplyDeleteIf I say ‘it is a real cat’ that sees me naked, this is in order to mark its unsubstitutable singularity. When it responds in its name (whatever ‘respond’ means, and that will be our question), it doesn’t do so as the exemplar of a species called ‘cat,’ even less so of an ‘animal’ genus or kingdom.
Read more about it in my blog entry:
ttp://www.immanentdomain.org/2009/07/derridas-cat.html