Viadrinicum

Quotation of the day #12:

The problem of walls’ existence poses the problem of analytical optics: one is alsways caught between the risk of reifying (artificially) constructed differences and the fallacy of ignoring the materiality of existing borders.

Quotation of the day #11:

Metaphorical perception of borders as the skin of statehood makes one aware of the corporeality of political subjectivity.

Quotation of the day #8:

A crucial distinction to be drawn in the context of conflicts is between the political border as a value and the actual border as an area of everyday practices: when it comes to cross-border interactions on the part of ordinary citizens it is often rational/pragmatic reasoning that prevails over ideological one.

Quotation of the day #7:

Economy of emotions structures the discourse about the past: in state of constant emotional agitation the condition of liminality is constantly returning.

Quotation of the day #6:

Today the basic division line is not a vertical one – i.e. who is up, who is down, – but a horizontal one – i.e. who is in, who is out.

Quotation of the day #10:

Semantically the concept of borders cuts both ways – it refers to the embodiment of differene, as well as the constitutive difference itself. Alternatively it can also be conceptualized as the third space – a vantage point from which differences can be observed critically.