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In: | Belgrade Journal of Media and Communications, 4, 2015, 07, S. 13-42 |
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Fakultet za medije i komunikacije - Univerzitet Singidunum
Faculty of Media and Communications - Singidunum University |
Medientyp: | Artikel, E-Artikel |
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2334-6132
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veröffentlicht in: | Belgrade Journal of Media and Communications |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Kollektion: | CEEOL Central and Eastern European Online Library sid-53-col-ceeol |
The essay starts from Cavell’s contention that what is sometimes called one’s “cultural identity” is never available to the one whose identity it is supposed to be, but is instead registered by those whose cultural identity it isn’t, and explores in particular Cavell’s propositions regarding how the mind can start revealing to itself what is opaque to it. The paradigmatic example of how the mind undoes itself to better access what is different from it is found in Thoreau’s practices at Walden. Analysis of Cavell’s reading of Thoreau leads me to propose that the work of undoing and leaving oneself – without which there is no substantive transformation – requires a certain joyous mourning over what is left behind. |