other-museum 

constructing the other :

"Our present idea of identity is a fairly recent social construct, andfff a rather complicated one at that. " 

ethnic diversity in britain

ethnic diversity in Kossovo 

“The other has no power over me. Or rather, if she has such power-if she has already spoken the command which I must obey –it would no longer be a face, but an ontological being, the hard-and- fast reality of resistance and tug-of-war. The Other is a face in as far as I lead the way, spearhead her command, anticipate it and provoke; as I command her to command me. The other is an authority since I am willing to listen to the command before the command has been spoken, and to follow the command before I know what it commands me to do. “By herself” (if there is such state), the Other is weak, and it is precisely that weakness that makes my positioning her as the Face a moral act: Iam fully and truly for the Other, since it is I who give her the right to command, make the weak strong, make the silence speak, make the non-being into being, through offering it the right to command me. “I am for the other” means I give myself to the Other as hostage.”

(Postmodern ethics  By Zygmunt Bauman)

the other in my self  :

julia kristeva, ξένοι στον εαυτό μας 

"Ο ξένος, σύμπτωμα που κατα κύριο λόγο καθιστά προβληματικό, κι ίσως ανέφικτο, το "εμείς", αρχίζει να υπάρχει όταν αναδύεται η συνείδηση της διαφοράς μου, και ολοκληρώνεται όταν αναγνωρίζουμε ότι όλοι είμαστε ξένοι, απέιθαρχοι απέναντι σε δεσμούς και κοινότητες".

I (seeing the) other :

           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP1wRJ2wxds

           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL6P9SrjueI

the other :