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Transition (Osmosis) – (i) Towards a discourse amongst Others

The Western intellectual tradition often seeks to identify and understand the unknown, the same unknown that can be the space of the Other. In the process of identification and understanding, intellectual discourses recuperate the wild untrammelled terrain of that unknown, the space of difference and of "being" on the outside of knowledge, power, and language, and convert it into a space of the familiar, the known. So the empty space to "be" in hitherto empty silence is lost in its translation into language and transliteration into words and images. Indeed, the process of mediation into language distances even the author from their own creation as well as their proximity to the experience their linguistic articulations represent.