Challenging article by Slavoj Zizek in the New Statesman about why we, as Europeans, feel so threatened by the migrant refugee crisis. We feel threatened by the strangeness of the other instead of seeing the strangeness in ourselves through other eyes. As he says: … “We should learn to experience ourselves as eccentric, to see our customs in all their weirdness and arbitrariness.”
Follow our adventures
- I'm helping scientists to investigate the impact of the pandemic on people's mental health - you can too! Download… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 21 hours ago
- RT @PsyPost: Engaging in art shown to improve anxiety and depression psypost.org/2021/02/engagi… 1 day ago
- RT @goulcher: can't stop thinking about people that first ate mushrooms they found and just had to go through trial and error of like, this… 1 day ago
- @saradavo @scarlets_rugby Excellent article. Well done. 3 days ago
- RT @BBCWalesNews: How experts are restoring the landscape to hold back floodwaters bbc.in/3pkDjX7 https://t.co/RNXYFkRmhE 5 days ago
