How do I consider others?

Me, you, them, us, she, he, it . Do they define a negative of to be? What or why is this difference so compelling? What is the fascination with otherness that I seem to have? Is this what may be defined as representational practice? Or, is this difference possibly the ‘spectacle’ of the other?  And are we not forced rather violently through culture to signify our otherness or for want of a politically acceptable word, to practice it? Is this not how gender is constructed, deconstructed and constructed again, with another I in another space in the heirachy? Practice practice practice? The performativity of being other requires practice?  Does this mean that I am performative in the sense that my practice itself produces a subjectivity as it is reflected against the practice of another? Or can I cultivate an “other,” that would defy the monologue of patriarchy and express, through language, a relationship between self and other that might expand upon this space?

Is the self site specific to its ‘other’?  Is it doomed to be produced and re-produced again and again as I?

δηλον γαρ ωs υμειs μεν ταυτα ( τι ποτε βουλεσθε σημαινειν οποταν ον φθεγγησθε) παλαι γιγνωσκετε, ημειs δε προ του μεν ωομεθα, νυν δ’ ηπορηκαμεν. [Plato Sophist 244α]

“I have long been (un) aware of what you mean when you use the expression ‘I’.I,
however, who used to think I understood it, have now become perplexed.”……

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