Today’s world is very poor in gaze and voice. It neither looks at nor speaks to us. The world has lost its otherness. The digital screen determines our experience of the world and shields us from reality. The world is de-realized, de-reified and disembodied. The emboldened ego is no longer touched by the other. On the reverse of things, it sees only a reflection of itself. The disappearance of the other is actually a dramatic event. But it happens so gradually as to be imperceptible. The other as a secret, as a gaze, as a voice, disappears. The other, deprived of otherness, is reduced to an
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