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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

  • 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.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2012

  • When it comes to the production of inequality through distantiation we are facing a paradox of our times.

    Eurozine articles 2009

  • The final mechanism of inequality, distantiation, is the most subtle of all: the mechanism or channel most difficult to pin down morally and politically.

    open Democracy News Analysis - Comments 2009

  • White Death, the sparse sense of isolation in the Stranger's first album, and the distantiation of the Caretaker's archival textures.

    PopMatters 2009

  • Thus rapprochement is the opposite of distantiation, whether this is achieved through catching up or by compensating for handicaps.

    Eurozine articles 2009

  • 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.

    open Democracy News Analysis - Comments 2009

  • The massive pity engineered by humanitarian campaigns supports western superiority, increases distantiation from its targets and breeds disdain.

    MRZine.org 2009

  • Such distantiation is the main route to increasing inequality today.

    open Democracy News Analysis - Comments 2009

  • But distantiation is a mechanism or a channel of inequality; it is not a causal force.

    Eurozine articles 2009

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