Hospitality and the Informational At‐Home

ABSTRACT This analysis uses Derridean deconstruction and reconstruction to examine the at‐home experience and hospitality from the perspective of information ethics. I argue that informational privacy is foundational in ensuring the informational at‐home, establishing one as host rather than hostage in the informational spaces required for the development of being and knowing. The informational at‐home, in turn, informs the possibility of hospitality. Hospitality is deconstructed beyond industry or transaction, instead revealing an etymological and conceptual depth that grounds the possibility of information ethics.