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/ˈɒltəɹəs/ · adjective
Pertaining to or characterized by alterity (otherness, the entity in contrast to which an identity is constructed); other..
The appeal from things is an appeal to abandon oneself to things, to give oneself to alterous relations, and therefore to make of oneself a gift, […] How to celebrate things in their alterity becomes the ethical question waiting for an answer.
[…] capacities as lines whose inflexions sediment inexhaustible ways of flexing to these encounters with the world. They do so by bending their initial and present sedimented complex of senses to alterity or to what is alterous in the environment.
Titchkosky suggests that disability can be a discursive mechanism for analyzing intersections of different (and alterous) […] it can serve as a prime discursive field where the meaning of alterity under contemporary conditions can be considered.
page 104: Identity and alterity are thus seen to be embedded within an individual – a view which incorporates Carl Jung's notion of the 'alterous' shadow (1938). Working with this concept of alterity can offer a fresh means of exploring the interpersonal […] page 116: On a cline of alterity, animating is placed as the 'least alterous' L2 performance role. In animating, as in acting, of course the speaker's personality remains, but her/his expression of L2 is now more limited; and educationally, this role offers another kind of learning experience ...
These attractions might include, but are not limited to: sexual, romantic, platonic, aesthetic, and alterous attractions.
These include: the (nonsexual, nonromantic) aesthetic attraction, platonic attraction, sensual attraction and alterous attraction. Together, these complexify the field of attraction per se to the point that the heterosexual matrix becomes […]
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Alterous means Pertaining to or characterized by alterity (otherness, the entity in contrast to which an identity is constructed); other..
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The appeal from things is an appeal to abandon oneself to things, to give oneself to alterous relations, and therefore to make of oneself a gift, […] How to celebrate things in their alterity becomes the ethical question waiting for an answer.
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