Xenophilia is by definition an affection for the unknown, unfamiliar or foreign–the opposite of xenophobia. Here, by authorial license, it connotes an attraction to the process of exploration, investigation and discovery, where the xénos is, or can be, no more and no less exotic than the ego. Strangeness abounds, for familiarity itself is a kind of trick we play on ourselves, something we imagine–a story we tell ourselves.
Me: Steven Gardiner, Senior Research Associate at Political Research Associated (PRA), and Xenophilia is my blog. The blog has gone through various incarnations in the last decade, but this is a relaunch. I have a good bit of old content I may get around to uploading into an archive. It is intended as a venue for occasional writing, commentary, links to my published works, notes on my works-in-progress and general home base for my public self.
Update: As of April 15, 2018, I am Senior Research Analyst for the progressive think-tank, Political Research Associates (PRA). I live in the Louisville, Kentucky area.
You can find most of my published works on academia.edu and the work of my spouse and co-author Angie Reed Garner can be found on her own webpage and on the garner narrative contemporary fine art page.
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