Right. Here we are. In the Derridian sense, the laws depend on exclusion. I'm with the author here. I'm not trying to contradict, I'm just trying to spin out the relationship between D's "h" and kindness and generosity mentioned above. One of the things I love about Derridian hospitality is that it is constituted by this tension, this contradiction, that--as soon as it is pointed out--becomes part of the meaning of the word. I'm guessing the caveat above re: kindness and generosity is aimed at an audience that might understand the word in other contexts. But, in my mind, once you Derridaize "hospitality" you can in fact understand it in terms of kindness, generosity, and (I'm going to argue) "service" as long as you Derridaize those words too. D's "h" can be about kindness and generosity insofar as these ideas have the same inherent antinomy the author talks about here. I'm riffing on this here because I want to see if we can connect a Derridian hospitality to a more pedestrian version of hospitality, not to dumb down or misread Derrida, but to see how his hospitality might already be at work in the conventional "kindness and generosity" version. In short, Derrida's hospitality is not only about kindness and generosity, but I'm guessing that Derrida's kindness and generosity are also not only about kindness and generosity. They depend on exclusion and limits, too.

This gets at my comment above. I think, perhaps, that maybe our definition of hospitality could evolve to be as complicated as the one you are setting up here. In fact, I think that this is a great opportunity to kind of tease out the complexities of kindness and generosity. I know you get to this idea in a bit, but finitude limits kindness and generosity so every time that we make decisions about where to draw the lines, we create our circle of compassion or empathy or--we might say--hospitality. So even when we are being kind and generous, we are still drawing lines. In the hospitality industry, restaurants have a limited number of tables and reservations. People are going to get left out while others are ushered in, fed, and even comped a drink or an app.

I like this definition. I am really interested in riffing on a Derridian notion of hospitality, this kind of networked hospitality, food networks, and the hospitality industry. There are a couple of things that I'm wondering at this point: what constitutes "information" and what constitutes "ease." I'm thinking about environments that are hospitable to certain microorganisms, but not others. So one kind of bacteria might move through with ease, while another might be killed off.

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I'm really interested in the intersections of food delivery and rhetorical delivery. There are networks formed for food delivery that end up having significant rhetorical implications.

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I wonder if this is where the term "digital natives" comes from.

This is really interesting. The idea of cyberspace as part of a natural ecology is something the kind of breaks down the nature/culture RL/virtual binaries at the very same time that he's making a distinction between the construction of physical spaces and cyberspace. Cyberspace, here, is part of nature but manmade construction projects are not.

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What are the various strains of posthuman rhetors?

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