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It also adds another facet to Loesberg's analysis by inviting us to consider the relationship between aesthetic self-distantiation and love for a particular thinker like Foucault, of the kind that Halperin champions in
Romantic Loves: A Response to _Historicizing Romantic Sexuality_ 2006
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Lescot knows his Brecht, the "Verfremdungseffekt," or distantiation, the cabaret style and the songs that, in the German playwright's works, comment on the action.
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When it comes to the production of inequality through distantiation we are facing a paradox of our times.
Eurozine articles 2009
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The final mechanism of inequality, distantiation, is the most subtle of all: the mechanism or channel most difficult to pin down morally and politically.
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White Death, the sparse sense of isolation in the Stranger's first album, and the distantiation of the Caretaker's archival textures.
PopMatters 2009
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Thus rapprochement is the opposite of distantiation, whether this is achieved through catching up or by compensating for handicaps.
Eurozine articles 2009
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In addition, African countries have also contributed to distantiation, for complex reasons that include the legacies of colonialism and neo-colonialism and the continuing unequal terms of trade between the continent and most of the rest of the world.
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The massive pity engineered by humanitarian campaigns supports western superiority, increases distantiation from its targets and breeds disdain.
MRZine.org 2009
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Such distantiation is the main route to increasing inequality today.
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But distantiation is a mechanism or a channel of inequality; it is not a causal force.
Eurozine articles 2009
slumry commented on the word distantiation
Also distanciation; see distantiate
October 5, 2015