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2/2 Article focuses on T’s
#defamiliarization of common justifications of #violence (with examples), encouraging readers to admit their implicit #complicity & noticing process which numbed them into accepting such complicity.

Then reflects on 4 specific
#subversive characteristics of defam: #disruption of automated perception, implicit #concession of problem, corrosion of respect for traditional
#hierarchies, & encouragement of
#empathy

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Alexandre Christoyannopoulos Jan 11, 2025

2/ Article focuses on T’s #defamiliarization of common justifications of #violence (with examples), encouraging readers to admit their implicit #complicity & noticing process which numbed them into accepting such complicity

3/ Then reflects on 4 specific #subversive characteristics of defam: #disruption of automated perception, implicit #concession of problem, corrosion of respect for traditional #hierarchies, & encouragement of #empathy

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Alexandre Christoyannopoulos Jan 11, 2024

Article focuses on T’s #defamiliarization of common justifications of #violence (with examples), encouraging readers to admit their implicit #complicity & noticing process which numbed them into accepting such complicity

Then reflects on 4 specific #subversive characteristics of defam: #disruption of automated perception, implicit #concession of problem, corrosion of respect for traditional #hierarchies, & encouragement of #empathy

Andrew Shields Apr 3, 2023

More defamiliarization in action: A. R. Moxon’s “A Good Guy with a Dinosaur”. #111Words #ARMoxon #AGoodGuyWithADinosaur #Dinosaurs #GunRights #GunControl #Defamiliarization https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/04/more-defamiliarization-in-action-r.html

More defamiliarization in action: A. R. Moxon’s “A Good Guy with a Dinosaur"

After I watched Clint Smith on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" on Thursday and his discussion of poetry as paying attention reminded of...

Andrew Shields Apr 2, 2023

A lesson in defamiliarization from Clint Smith on “Late Night with Stephen Colbert”. #111Words #ClintSmith #LateNightWithStephenColbert #ViktorShklovsky #Defamiliarization #Poetry #ArtAsDevice https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/04/a-lesson-in-defamiliarization-from.html

A lesson in defamiliarization from Clint Smith on “Late Night with Stephen Colbert"

Viktor Shklovsky's "Art as Device" (1917) was part of the literary theory course I took in graduate school in 1989, as it is now for English...

So many dynamos Mar 11, 2023

I am so pleased that this beautiful print anthology (which has a poem of mine in it) has been making waves as a notable book of the year. I know that I will now always on the lookout for examples of #defamiliarization I might use in my writing as a result https://twitter.com/GravityThing/status/1634262021570166784