Reverse Hospitality on the Outskirts of Culture: Ritual Matrices of Creation in a Local Community of Beings, Human and Non-Human, Living and Dead, Gods and Elements
Oblivion that saves; dramatic representation in the backstage of Christian publicity; ritual matrices in local communities of beings, human and non-human; reverse hospitality … in those experiences and expressions, there are other (very other) ethics, other politics, other epistemic ways of knowledge. Following their paths I have talked (and written, thinking with/in/on my feet) about “semiopraxis”. An extended common disciplinary and social sense perceives and thinks Culture as a way of seeing, feeling, and living within a community that gathers around this pregnating consensus. But this is a Westernized way of understanding culture, marked by Eurocentric defensive selftropings and its policies of world colonization. In outer non-Western communities, the sense, the practices and, above all, the medium of hospitality is other (Grosso, 2014a; 2015a; 2017a). The concept of community expands there and embraces human beings together with the nonhuman, the living and the dead, gods and elements, in a network of relationships.
