Contact that Changes me: Neill Blomkamp’s Movie District 9 and Jean-Luc Nancy’s Book L’intrus
Contact that Changes me: Neill Blomkamp’s Movie District 9 and Jean-Luc Nancy’s Book L’intrus

Summary/Abstract: The central focus of the article is the issue of contact, which connects the Neill Blomkamp’s movie District 9 and the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy’s book L’intrus. In Blomkamp’s movie, the main character’s contact with the product of the alien scientific research changes his appearance, his understanding of the world and life, but most importantly, his identity. In Nancy’s work, the focus is on the heart transplantation he had personal experience of, which is a starting point in the interpretation of the problem of identity and its expropriation. Namely, identity was understood as a sort of immunity, protection from the other and strange. However, both Nancy and Blomkamp show that stranger, intruder, other, is always next to us and that he/she/it always intrudes into the so called “our” space, showing us not only that we live with and next to others, but that we become others to ourselves as well.

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