Open AccessKierkegaard, antifilosofi og global migration i "Gør Danmark dansk"
Author(s) -
Julie Nørgaard,
Camilla Møhring Reestorff
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
passage
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1904-7797
pISSN - 0901-8883
DOI - 10.7146/pas.v28i70.24489
Subject(s) - danish , reading (process) , negotiation , national identity , gender studies , ethnic group , sociology , identity (music) , political science , media studies , law , philosophy , aesthetics , linguistics , politics
Julie Nørgaard & Camilla Møhring Reestorff: “Kierkegaard, Antiphilosophy and Global Migration in Make Denmark Danish”Through a reading of Søren Kierkegaard this article studies negotiations of global migration and national identity as it unfolds in DR1’s TV-program Gør Danmark Dansk/Make Denmark Danish (2012). In the program three ethnic and three Muslim Danes have to live together and discuss “Danishness”. Kierkegaard’s depictions of the modern, dispassionate society (1846) are used to examine the program’s articulation of a new inclusive national community. A comparative reading of Kierkegaard’s (1843), Butler’s (2000) and Honig’s (2010) readings of Antigone suggests that the program’s Muslim participants are staged as figures of transformation that bring forth a new national identity. Yet by reading the program through antiphilosophical (Lacan 1980; Badiou 2011; Groys 2012) lenses it becomes evident that the participants are “working the intervals” between imitating the program’s prescribed ethical choice and claiming a postmetaphysical ethics.