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(noun) otherness / (noun) the quality or state of being radically alien to the conscious self or a particular cultural orientation

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alterity



I refuse to recognize the division of our image, the other’s alterity.

—p.221 by Roland Barthes
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8 months, 2 weeks ago

Book of Numbers
by multiple authors

Book of Numbers
by multiple authors

Book of Numbers
by multiple authors


I opened a window—not a real actual window, rather an otherness or alterity—a sill for my filth.

oh boy

—p.142 An Interruption (140) by Chad Harbach
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4 years, 1 month ago


the alterity of dreams

—p.30 by Jean Baudrillard
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6 years, 10 months ago


Western mythology attributes to the Communist world the very alterity of a planet: the USSR is a world intermediate between Earth and Mars

—p.38 Martians (38) by Roland Barthes
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7 years, 3 months ago


the fundamental unbridgeability of the gap between self and other is reinforced. That gap entails alterity, the nexus of subjectivity in the objectof communication that cannot be reached by communicative intent

—p.5 Introduction (1) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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7 years, 4 months ago

Wallace was overwhelmed by what he saw as the alterity of the female experience; that is to say, its total alienation from his experience of the world.

—p.171 "Personally I'm Neutral on the Menstruation Point": Gender, Difference and the Body (165) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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7 years, 4 months ago


not any mystery whatsoever will be eerie; there must be a sense of alterity

—p.104 The Eerie (60) by Mark Fisher
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4 years, 11 months ago


If we take the argument a step further, we face the possibility that the humanities are actually countereconomic; the notion of alterity and sympathy, taken seriously, would undo the profit motive and put a fair amount of grit into the workings of economic activity

—p.164 On Menand and Nussbaum (161) missing author
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5 years, 6 months ago