Published 2021-08-25
Keywords
- diplomacy,
- alien,
- law,
- encounter,
- difference
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Abstract
The film series Men in Black, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, portrays an agency whose goal is to prevent the presence of extraterrestrials on Earth from causing problems – be they misunderstandings or violent aggressions. In a comical way, they allow us to understand the weak point of both universalism and particularism: there is no difference without undifferentiation – and neither undifferentiation without difference. At the moment when the dreams of equality and universality – as put into practice, for example, at the end of the Roman era, with the edition of the Caracala’s Constitution, which extended Roman citizenship to all the inhabitants of the Empire – intend to materialize, it is not the protocols of legal abstraction that must do all the work, but those of a true alien diplomacy, whose starting point is to consider us as strangers to ourselves.
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