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Impermanent mobility rather than stale stability is the towering metaphor of who and what we are and where we think we live. Fictive frontiers, moving signposts, barbed wires, tall apartheid walls, military checkpoints, militarized airports, train and bus stations, stormy seas, leaking refugee boats, drowning parents and dead children’s bodies.… Our metaphysics must start there, for it has long moved there. The metaphysics of our being in the world start with the weakest and most vulnerable, not with the strongest sporting a U.S. or EU passport. There is no self or any other on that leaking sinking boat. There is no self or other, and therefore there is no dis-othering on that boat. In dis-othering we are carrying the delusion of a safe destiny from behind secured walls to stormy seas and leaking boats, there to ignore the fact of a perilous journey as the single most defining metaphysical uncertainty of our existence today.

Hamid Dabashi, Europe and Its Shadows: Coloniality After Empire