Modern subjects universally experience a sense of being not-at-home

Evidence

This is the familiar, deeply modern, sense of dislocation which-it increasingly appears-we do not have to travel far to experience. Perhaps we are all, in modern times-after the Fall, so to speak-what the philosopher Heidegger called “Unheimlichkeit”: literally, “not-at-home.” As Iain Chambers eloquently expresses it: We can never go Home, return to the primal scene, to the forgotten moment of our beginnings and “authenticity,” for there is always something else between. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 821

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces Heidegger’s Unheimlichkeit as the philosophical term for modern dislocation — a concept the later field uses for migrant/refugee subjectivity.
• XREF: Connects to the ‘imagined community of the nation’ building block and to statelessness as the extreme form of not-being-at-home. — connects to: Settled property ownership is the origin of human homesickness and alienation — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 74