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Reconfiguring the alterity relation: the role of communication in interactions with social robots and chatbots
Don Ihde’s alterity relation focuses on the quasi-otherness of dynamic technologies that interact with humans. The alterity relation is one means to...
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The concept of alterity: its usage and its relevance for critical qualitative researchers in the era of Trump
Alterity is a concept with an extensive yet elusive history. Popularly conceived of as radical difference and Otherness, I identify alterity as the...
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Otherness measuring scale: design and validation for social sciences
This paper is the result of a scale validation process, applicable to social science research, which allows the constructs of otherness and...
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Unpacking the Concept of Otherness: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives
Otherness is a complex and polysemic notion that is conceptualized in both philosophy and psychology. The paper examines otherness as a universal...
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Plurality and the Claims of Alterity
Plurality is a key notion in Arendt understanding of politics. Politics as such is based on the fact of human plurality, the fact that there are men,...
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Levinas’ Otherness: An Ethical Dimension for Enactive Sociality
What is or should be the place of the ethical dimension in a general enactive theory of sociality? How should such a dimension be understood and...
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Alterity and divergence: reflections on interculturality via Levinas and Jullien
The three kinds of differences distinguished in Emmanuel Levinas’ thinking, along with François Jullien’s relevant elaborations, are utilised to...
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Disaffiliation from Jewish Ultra-Orthodox Communities: Life Trajectories Shaped by the Axes of Rigidity–Fluidity and Alterity–Inclusion
Increasing numbers of young Israelis annually leave the enclave of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. Relying on 16 in-depth interviews, we examine...
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On Technical Alterity
This commentary introduces the notion of “technical alterity” in order to address the following questions: is it possible that technical objects can...
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Beyond the margins of metanarrativity: an inquiry on prejudice, decoloniality and cross-cultural discourse
This paper sets upon the elaboration of two inter-related enquiries: What do being and otherness look like beyond the margins of metanarrativity?...
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Dialogue on Temporality and Alterity in I-Other Relations Inspired by the Philosophy of Levinas
This essay is a dialogue on temporality and alterity in I-other relations that arose from some reflections on the possibility and pertinence of using...
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Meta-narratives on machinic otherness: beyond anthropocentrism and exoticism
Intelligent machines are no longer distant fantasies of the future or solely used for industrial purposes; they are real “living” things that operate...
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Presence, Absence, and Alterity: Fire Space and Goffman’s Selves in Postdigital Education
The literature on space in higher education has arguably been dominated by the concept of ‘learning spaces’. In this paper, I will argue that this...
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Writing, Violence and Writing the Non-Western Other in Business Ethics: Toward an Ethics of Alterity
This article examines how the textual rendering of the non-Western Other in Business Ethics in the West often remains a misrepresentation. Informed...
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Towards a Speculative Ecology. Monads, Habits, and the Non-otherness of the World
In this chapter, we discuss metaphysical issues activated by ecological discourse, in order to coherently outline a speculative philosophy which...
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Alterity in Europe—Occupying Spaces as Feminist Strategy in (Post)Migration Aesthetics: A Conversation
Living and working in German exile since the 1990s, themes like the oppression of women and the violation of human rights are of major concern for...
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Communication Models in Human–Robot Interaction: An Asymmetric MODel of ALterity in Human–Robot Interaction (AMODAL-HRI)
We argue for an interdisciplinary approach that connects existing models and theories in Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) to traditions in communication...
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Alterity and Emotions: Heterogeneous Learning Conditions and Embodiment
According to the phrase ‘meet the learners where they are’, learning depends on a learner’s personal, social and cultural preconditions. In a...
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Language, Subjectivity and Alterity: Humour in Children’s Discourse
This text intends to present some considerations about language and discrimination, using the children’s humouristic language to discuss it. Our...
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Being (Ab)normal – Be(com)ing Other: Struggles Over Enacting an Ethos of Difference in a Psychosocial Care Centre
Responding to recent calls from within critical MOS and organizational ethics studies to explore questions of difference and inclusion ‘beyond unity...