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Europe: Crossing Its Phantasmagoric Image

The concept of Europe is the subject of various projections, disputes and thoughts which tend to shape that what we commonly mean by Europe, what is commonly known as Europe, or what an idea of Europe may contain. Following the standpoint (Patočka 1976, Hagedorn 2013) that the vision of Europe can only be fully realized in the context of a Post-European world, I will seek for its contingent foundations, historical gestures and contemporary concerns that support this idea. There are three main questions that I will address in the presentation. The first is how long a shadow of the past (imperial past, fascism, socialism/communism) casts on contemporary European society, and its image in particular. In this regard three overlapping concepts such as “provincializing Europe” (Chakrabarty 2000), “postmemory” (Hirsch 2008) and the “former Western Europe” (Gržinić 2009) in opposition to the “former Eastern Europe” that have appeared across the last two last decades reconstitute a meaning of Europe. The second question refers to European borders and bordering, or more precisely, to the production of border zones as transitional contact zones of both cultural mixtures, differences and crossings (Julien 2008, Ostojić 2005) and emerging deportation regimes (De Genova 2010). The third one, by tackling the issue of non-citizens in Europe as being vital for a European political constituency today, challenges the idea of European belonging to the most possible extent.

Europe; discourse; vision; borders; deportation regimes

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