10. Lošinjski dani bioetike - Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo

Subverzivni ples na margini performativnih identiteta, ako već ne vrši
opoziv, zasigurno dovodi u pitanje samorazumljivost i neupitnost postojećih
društvenih normi i kategorijalnih aparata moći.
U tom smislu, neophodno je osvještavanje i priznavanje pozicije drugoga/drugih,
makar bili u pitanju i ne-zemaljski oblici života. Pomicanjem
granica koje smo nametnuli Drugome i afirmacijom razumijevanja, koja
pri tome ništa ne podrazumijeva, otvaramo prostore tolerancije koja neće
služiti tek legitimaciji jačega. Baudrillardovskim riječima, neautentičnost i
neizvjesnost svijeta, koji ne poznaje svoj ekvivalent, realan je kao i K-PAX,
a njegovi stanovnici, ne/izvjesni i ne/autentični kao i bilo koji drugi oblik
života.
RE-THINKING THE CONCEPT OF OTHERNESS AND THE
OTHER/S IN THE DECONSTRUCTION KEY OF
XENOLOGY AND ANTI-PSYCHIATRY: THE CASE OF K-PAX
Prot or Robert Proter – an extraterrestrial or a human being whose
mind is demented? K-PAX – a real place or hetero(u)topia? Where does reason/commonsense
end and where does madness begin? Is reason beyond
madness or insanity beyond reason? Who sets the limits and conditions of
what is normal and socially acceptable, or is everything that is socially acceptable
at the same time normal/sensible? Where does individual identity
start, and where does collective identity end?
Subversive dance on the margins of performative identities – if it does
not act as suspension, it most certainly brings into question the indisputability
of the existing social norms and structures of power.
In this sense, it is necessary to raise awareness about and acknowledge
the position of the Other/otherness, even if it comes in the form of non-terrestrial
life. Shifting the boundaries that we have imposed on the Other/otherness
and affirming understanding, which implies absolutely nothing, we
make room for tolerance that will anything but only serve to legitimise the
stronger. In Baudrillardesque words, the inauthenticity and uncertainty of
the world, which knows not its equivalent, is just as real as K-PAX, and its
residents are just as un/certain and in/authentic as any other form of life.
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