alterity

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In a concrete and sexual form the reciprocal recognition of the self and the other is accomplished in the keenest consciousness of the other and the self … the dimension of the other remains; but the fact is that alterity no longer has a hostile character; this consciousness of the union of the bodies in their separation is what makes the sexual act moving.”

From The Guardian

A scholastic dissertation on the relationship between “alterity and ipseity” — otherness and selfhood, to use common language — becomes almost satirical juxtaposed with a painting of an attractive young woman casually posed in regal profile on a throne-like upholstered chair.

From Los Angeles Times

And, to be honest, I’m very charmed by the image of freshman Deborah Treisman rushing out of her graduate seminar on alterity to make it in time for gamelan drumming.

From The New Yorker

Her influential thought experiment “The Left Hand of Darkness” uses this strategy to explore gender and alterity.

From The New Yorker

A French Jew best known for pictures documenting the Jewish diaspora, Brenner had come to see Israel as “a place of radical alterity, of radical ‘otherness,’ ” so “it made sense to invite ‘others’ to question ‘otherness.’

From The New Yorker