Esperrància: The Place of Waiting and Wandering

Abstract

This paper presents some possibilities of the thought about hospitality-welcoming enunciated by the philosopher Jacques Derrida. It considers the Theory of Encounters in collage as an attempt to advance in the obscure relationships between guest and host, placing in the analogs figures of waiting and wandering, as it was presented at my book called “The collage as loving trajectory”. It seeks to show that the issue of hospitality – similarly the collage – has the property of joining the differences while keeping them. In this way, both the figure of waiting and wandering are treated as inseparable entities from each other.