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Alterity

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Al`ter´i`ty
n.1.The state or quality of being other; a being otherwise.
For outness is but the feeling of otherness (alterity) rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented.
- Coleridge.


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The prose makes it seem even longer, strewn with complex sentences, rambling paragraphs, and overwrought words like proformativity, scopic, hideosity, mediatisation, alterity, and affordances.
Christianity, the church, and the Bible are at once our best friends and our worst enemies when it comes to alterity.
If Jesus was at the beginning of Mark's Gospel the "Other," the "tribute" already shows that Mark has managed to turn things upside down and make all others subjects of alterity through social memory.
 
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