this paper provides a critical analysis of heidegger’s brief remarks in his “letter on humanism” in which he links ethics to ethos and ultimately to our relation to time and history. central to this analysis is the phrase of heraclitus, ēthos anthrōpōi daimōn, from which heidegger claims that human living (ethos) is inseparable from the event of appropriation (ereignis) which generates our hist...

Based on the Medea-myth, Zecora Ura Theatre’s and Para Active’s Brazilian-British co-production Hotel Medea (2010–2012) is an overnight promenade performance which actively involves the audience. It turns them into, alternatively, party guests, Medea’s children, her closest friends, soldiers, and the focus group of Jason’s political campaign. Medea herself, the archetypal refugee, represents th...

In her essay ‘Translation as Culture’, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak sketches an account of something she refers to as ‘originary translation’. By this, she means the developmental process through which a child comes to terms with the wider world, negotiating ‘private and public grammars’ in a manner that is constitutive of ethical subjectivity. Drawing on the work of Aristotle, Lyotard, Bachelard...