Paper short abstract:

How can we think and recognise the xenon? Is there a strategy to discuss the event of being strange within a fast moving world. A theory of a phenomenological translation enables us to create a cultural diffracted being without identity. We have to learn to live within a non-located homeland.

Paper long abstract:

Is there a strategy to discuss the event of being strange, foreign and alien? The main issue in this kind of discussion is the interplay of identity and difference. The treatment of the epistemological question of being "in" and "out" has political, legal, cultural, economic and geographical layers. It draws boundaries through selection and exclusion, thereby leading to the reproduced universal scenery of the Greek vision of the citizen (subject) and the barbarian (non-subject). The impact of this vision can be now literally seen in the E.U. reinforcement of FRONTEX while producing "naked lives" (Agamben) that are non-subjects at the "Walls of Europe".My thesis replaces this black and white vision and contrasts it with universal rights (Rawls) or universal action theories (Habermas): There are no such things as clear boundaries, homeland, or culture. I am focusing on the relevance of phenomenological approaches to cultural theories and its political implications by rethinking the concept of translatio. By stressing the study of phenomena, understood as the appearance of things, Phenomenology, as concept, has a weak position, since it hesitates to denominate things and issues by transgressing orders and by allowing us to express that the alien begins within ourselves. Hence, translatio can be symbolised by the process of diffraction, as in a crystal ball, which highlights grey areas, trans-formations and thresholds. Translation as a human experience enables us to create a cultural diffracted being without identity. The diffraction mode re-constructs and improves multi-linguistic and multi-ethnical achievement within high mobility-oriented and ramified societies.