Why strangeness?

Kristen specializes in strangeness.

Strangeness is not about meeting strangers.

The sloths look at the humans by their strangeness.

But let's accept the strangeness of some of our ideas.

My title Queerer than we can suppose the strangeness of science.

But that's because of the kind of strangeness of the market itself.

The point that we should be worried about is, how much strangeness are we getting?

I love that idea, that by discovering the strangeness in ourself we can find the truth.

The threat to worry about is whether or not we're getting our fair share of strangeness.

There is mystery but not magic, strangeness beyond the wildest imagining, but no spells or witchery, no arbitrary miracles.

In the context of this broad range of digital relations, safely seeking strangeness might very well be a new basis for that innovation.

If we learn to speak to one another, albeit through translation, then we can begin to see choice in all its strangeness, complexity and compelling beauty.

My phrase for this value of being with not like us is strangeness, and my point is that in today's digitally intensive world, strangers are quite frankly not the point.

So jogging those zones of familiarity is one way to think about strangeness, and it's a problem faced not just by individuals today, but also by organizations, organizations that are trying to embrace massively new opportunities.

Now, take away the awful fear, and my sensations at feeling the supernatural hand in mine were very similar, in their strangeness, to those which I experienced on waking up and seeing Queequeg's pagan arm thrown round me.

Strangeness is that calibration of closeness and distance that enables me to find the people that I need right now, that enables me to find the sources of intimacy, of discovery, and of inspiration that I need right now.

Whether you're a political party insisting to your detriment on a very rigid notion of who belongs and who does not, whether you're the government protecting social institutions like marriage and restricting access of those institutions to the few, whether you're a teenager in her bedroom who's trying to jostle her relations with her parents, strangeness is a way to think about how we pave the way to new kinds of relations.