The Exceptional Community: On Strangers, Foreigners, and Communication

Butchart, Garnet C

doi:10.1111/j.1753-9137.2009.01055.x

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“…While there is more of a leveling experience, it is important to keep in mind that third places form community. However, community is a term that is both exclusive and inclusive at the same time [Butchart, 2010]. In order to form third place, there has to be this exclusion juxtaposed against a welcoming environment.…”

Section: Theoretical Application—chicago Il November 2014mentioning

confidence: 99%

Traveling the Third Place: Conferences as Third Places

Purnell

Breede

2017

Space and Culture

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The purpose of this research study was to extend the concept of third places, as explained by Oldenburg, as being places designed as meeting places being dynamic rather than static. The primary sites for this article were conferences attended by the authors. Defining social events within the meeting spaces of conferences as third spaces pushed the traditional third place theory forward. It offered a way for rituals to be explored more deeply through the experiences they offered. This study asked the reader to pay attention to the periphery where interaction takes place and consider how we frame concepts of third places. In this piece, we explored how the space of a conference “functions as a safe, relaxed space outside the home [and] can actually lead to a deeper investment” by attendees via third-place qualities. The third-place quality offers a space within which human connections supersede a space’s designated purpose and become multipurposed, durable, and long-lived, spanning space, time, and distance. We suggest that the conference becomes transformative, altering a nonplace, a generic place, into a third place.

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Section: Theoretical Application—chicago Il November 2014mentioning

confidence: 99%

Traveling the Third Place: Conferences as Third Places

Purnell

Breede

2017

Space and Culture

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“…As Butchart (2010) notes, community is often taken for granted as a necessary and ultimate good; yet, it is precisely its seeming innocence that renders it an integral category of critique for addressing persisting philosophical questions on the universal and the particular, the interior and the exterior, and similarity and difference (pp. 21–22).…”

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Community/Common: Jean-Luc Nancy and Antonio Negri on Collective Potentialities

Parmett

2012

Communication, Culture &Amp; Critique

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Philosophical debates about “the common” have emerged as a prevalent thread of scholarship in communication. Little of this work, however, considers the relationship between the common and community. This essay takes up this relationship by putting the work of Antonio Negri into conversation with Jean‐Luc Nancy. I attend to the two scholars' differing conceptions of immanence and alterity, death and poverty, language and communication, work and production, love, and the people and multitude. I suggest juxtaposing Negri's and Nancy's ontologies of the common creates divergent possibilities for understanding how collective potentialities emerge and can be actualized. Ultimately, I argue for a refusal to choose between the two thinkers, suggesting the necessity of thinking the common kairologically.

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Living Foreignness/Community: Potentiality and “Ordinary” Performances of Being/Non-Being

Mitra

2012

Text and Performance Quarterly

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The Exceptional Community: On Strangers, Foreigners, and Communication

Abstract: The political philosophy of Giorgio Agamben (1998) is linked to the key concept of ''community'' for critical communication studies. The essay discusses how community is haunted by foreignness and how communication is constituted by estrangement.

Cited by 8 publications

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Traveling the Third Place: Conferences as Third Places

Traveling the Third Place: Conferences as Third Places

Community/Common: Jean-Luc Nancy and Antonio Negri on Collective Potentialities

Living Foreignness/Community: Potentiality and “Ordinary” Performances of Being/Non-Being

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