The developed capacity to become a stranger to one’s own knowing: to perceive what is familiar as if for the first time, before recognition has organized it into assumption. Retrieved from the poetic tradition of defamiliarization, where art restores sensation by making the automatic strange. In HDI, estrangement is the cognitive operation that precedes every act of real discernment: you cannot evaluate what you cannot first perceive.
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