The Expulsion of the Other - Society, Perception and Communicati The Other the well-known scholar of Dada

the well-known scholar of Dada and Surrealism

Charles Simic

Ernst was arrested and interned as an enemy alien

It is a book of audacious botany and poetic vision which asks us to look at anew at our relationship with plants and celebrates their power to nourish the human spirit

The Expulsion of the Other - Society, Perception and Communicati The Other the well-known scholar of DadaThe days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information and consumption. What used to be the Other, be it as friend, as Eros or as hell, is now indistinguishable from the self in our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything and everyone until there are no boundaries left. The result is a 'terror of the Same', lives in which we no longer pursue knowledge, insight and experience but are instead reduced to the echo chambers