Close encounters of a migrant kind: Of mirages,peripheries and orthodoxies
Saër Maty Bâ
This article studies human migration in relation to ‘Europe’ and ‘Africa’ (as ideas, spaces places) via the problematic of Eurocentrism. Its premise is a strong sense that emerging European populations will soon be those whose heritage from South, who have grown up with continuously access knowledge about different types non-European cinemas, view differently configured visual references, bring potential for new film/visual culture studies. Specifically,the experiments three encounters – UK (United Kingdom) academia, so-called peripheral cinema, historical connections between Europe Africa through wide factual contexts, specific trajectories notion diaspora,so as place dialogue. At same time, it rejects liberalism fundamentalism, questions methodological orthodoxy migration. The (methodological) contact zone draws varied sources, including Derrida’s contretemps/being out step; Paul Feyerabend’s (in)famous concept ‘anything goes’ (essential enriching one’s look at material history); Slavoj Žižek’s take on fatality critical notion; film theory theory; histories; African philosophers. Thus, attempts make disciplines borderless, while calling ‘film’ repositioned within wider field ‘visual culture’ so that, (i.e. film) migration, multiple transformative border crossings, rather than usual splits retreats into fortified (sub-)discipline(d) camps, may place.
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