ABSTRACT
How do strange encounters, encounters in which some-thing that cannot be named is passed between subjects, serve to embody the subject? How do encounters with the one whom we already recognise as a stranger take place at the level of the body? To what extent do strange encounters involve, not just reading the stranger’s body, but defining the contours or boundaries of the body-at-home, through the very gestures that enable a withdrawal from the stranger’s co-presence in a given social space?
