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alterity (en)

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

Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times
by Erin McElroy

Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times
by Erin McElroy

Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times
by Erin McElroy


Thus, in one fell swoop, he erased the entire history of Felix and Romanian computer production, positioning the country as technologically retrograde due to its anticapitalist alterity.

—p.141 The Most Dangerous Town on the Internet (133) by Erin McElroy
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10 months ago