The realm of the inhabitant:

The third and last part of my inhabitant talk at Hidmo (my first movement concerned cosmopolitanism), will turn mainly to cinema for some answers. After discussing Wendy Brown's seminal essay on neoliberialism, a discussion that will link her theories to theories surrounding cultural evolution, I will look at three recent films: Kathrine Windfeld's The Escape (Denmark), Philippe Lioret's Welcome (France), and Claire Denis's 33 Shots of Rum (France). The first film represents globalization as a system that entangles every person on the surface of the earth. The second, represents the illegal immigrant (sans papier) as the true hero of neoliberal governmentality and the act of crossing a border as the last love story of the human race. The third, beautifully captures the sorrows of cultural deracination. At the end of this talk, we should see the possibilities for narrating this new subject, the inhabitant. Homi Bhabha once wrote about Nation and Narration; this talk is about Narration Sans Nation and Papiers.