1865 || when it's all too familiar, make life strange

When things become familiar, we ignore their magic. Defamiliarization is a way to reclaim that magic. It's a way to renew our perception and reclaim meaning.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. - Anaïs NinDefamiliarization is a literary technique coined by Viktor Shklovsky in 1917, that makes familiar objects or experiences seem strange so readers see them in a new way. It works by disrupting “habitual” perception, so the text revitalizes ordinary details and encourages fresh understanding.

It's a way to see things again, for the first time.

This is why art exists. And why it's important to make room for it.

THE SOURCES:

https://zuckermanhartung.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/shklovsky-art-as-technique.pdfhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aplG3ia8mA&t=37shttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamiliarizationhttps://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/wlf/what-defamiliarization-definition-and-examples

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