The book includes texts written by Anat Pick, Valerie Gérard, W. J. T. Mitchell, Andrzej Leder, Szymon Wróbel, Maciej Pisuk, Rafał Drozdowski, who were some of the guests invited to the discussions on the Festival Forum 2011. The issues raised include the multidimensionality and polysemy of the state of exclusion, perceived as a borderline phenomenon, universally delineating the modern human condition.