{"id":323,"date":"2020-06-19T09:16:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T07:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/?p=323"},"modified":"2021-11-26T08:47:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T07:47:49","slug":"have-i-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/2020\/06\/19\/have-i-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"Have I Arrived?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_323 social_share_privacy clearfix 1.6.4 locale-de_DE sprite-de_DE\"><\/div><div class=\"twoclick-js\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\njQuery(document).ready(function($){if($('.twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_323')){$('.twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_323').socialSharePrivacy({\"txt_help\":\"Wenn Sie diese Felder durch einen Klick aktivieren, werden Informationen an Facebook, Twitter, Flattr, Xing, t3n, LinkedIn, Pinterest oder Google eventuell ins Ausland \\u00fcbertragen und unter Umst\\u00e4nden auch dort gespeichert. N\\u00e4heres erfahren Sie durch einen Klick auf das <em>i<\\\/em>.\",\"settings_perma\":\"Dauerhaft aktivieren und Daten\\u00fcber-tragung zustimmen:\",\"info_link\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.heise.de\\\/ct\\\/artikel\\\/2-Klicks-fuer-mehr-Datenschutz-1333879.html\",\"uri\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\\\/zekkblog\\\/2020\\\/06\\\/19\\\/have-i-arrived\\\/\",\"post_id\":323,\"post_title_referrer_track\":\"Have+I+Arrived%3F\",\"display_infobox\":\"on\"});}});\n\/* ]]> *\/<\/script><\/div>\n<p>A\n lot of my time these days is spent streaming movies and friends often \nask me for movie recommendations while they\u2019re stuck at home like me. \nFor the last few years my first recommendation has always been the \nsame:&nbsp;<em>Arrival<\/em>. If you haven\u2019t already seen it, stop reading this and watch it. Now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of all the movies I have seen (and I have seen&nbsp;<em>a lot<\/em>) I don\u2019t think there is another that deals so gracefully with the problem of alterity, with&nbsp;<em>otherness<\/em>. Tolstoy reportedly said that all great literature was one of two  stories: a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. On its  surface,&nbsp;<em>Arrival<\/em>&nbsp;tells the story of a set of alien&nbsp;spaceships  that land on earth and how a professor of linguistics attempts to  communicate with the strange beings on board. In any other movie, we  could predict what happens next. The professor tries, fails and tries  again until she successfully cracks the code, allowing her to  communicate with the alien. The End. In&nbsp;<em>Arrival<\/em>, the professor doesn\u2019t crack the code. The code cracks her. Like I said, you really need to watch it. <em>Now<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Liberalism\n promises each of us something like the generic Hollywood ending. With \nthe right, liberal frame of mind, I am told, I can learn to understand, \ntolerate and accommodate people of different races, religions and \nethnicities if I just learn to communicate. But look at the way this \nsentence is structured. I. Understand. Them.&nbsp;<em>Subject. Verb. Object. I<\/em>&nbsp;am doing the understanding and&nbsp;<em>they&nbsp;<\/em>are becoming another object that gets added to the range of objects I have successfully brought within&nbsp;<em>my<\/em>&nbsp;understanding.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This  model of understanding \u2013 and its sheer inadequacy \u2013 has been exposed during the recent Black Lives Matter protests. Many of us do not understand the discrimination, victimization and suffering of black individuals even where we all speak a shared language that allows us to communicate. And that is the lesson for those of us involved in interfaith theological dialogue. To understand the other one must allow one\u2019s self to be transformed. Understanding is an act of hospitality and vulnerability that goes beyond communication with signs and symbols. If I\u2019m going to attempt to understand you, I have to accept that there is  no linguistic code I can crack to do so. I have to allow myself to be fundamentally transformed from the person I was before I knew you to the person I have become after I came to know you. In that act of being transformed by you, of no longer being who I was, I might have come to understand you, and myself.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/files\/2020\/06\/books-1655783_1920-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/files\/2020\/06\/books-1655783_1920-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/files\/2020\/06\/books-1655783_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/files\/2020\/06\/books-1655783_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/files\/2020\/06\/books-1655783_1920-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/files\/2020\/06\/books-1655783_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-blue-color has-text-color\">Dr. Abdul Rahman Mustafa ist Mitarbeiter am Seminar f\u00fcr Islamische Theologie der Universit\u00e4t Paderborn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of my time these days is spent streaming movies and friends often ask me for movie recommendations while they\u2019re stuck at home like me. For the last few years my first recommendation has always been the same:&nbsp;Arrival. If &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/2020\/06\/19\/have-i-arrived\/\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8844,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uni-paderborn.de\/zekkblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}