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alone (adj., adv.)
“unaccompanied, solitary; without companions,” c. 1300, a contraction of all ane, from Old English all ana “unaccompanied, all by oneself,” literally “wholly oneself,” from all “all, wholly” + an “one”. It preserves the old pronunciation of one.
Similar compounds are found in German (allein) and Dutch (alleen). The sense of “and nothing else” is from c.1200. Related: Aloneness. Adverbial alonely seems to have become obsolete 17c.
This exhibition examines the relationship between connection and withdrawal, and the mix of distance and immediacy that structures contemporary living. Loneliness has become ambient rather than exceptional: life is shaped by numbing connectivity, terminally online habits, and the accelerating drift toward isolation even within spaces and platforms nominally designed for togetherness. Desire both sharpens and stalls as communication filters through avatars and algorithms, which promise intimacy while reinforcing its scarcity. Closeness has…
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alone (adj., adv.)
“unaccompanied, solitary; without companions,” c. 1300, a contraction of all ane, from Old English all ana “unaccompanied, all by oneself,” literally “wholly oneself,” from all “all, wholly” + an “one”. It preserves the old pronunciation of one.
Similar compounds are found in German (allein) and Dutch (alleen). The sense of “and nothing else” is from c.1200. Related: Aloneness. Adverbial alonely seems to have become obsolete 17c.
This exhibition examines the relationship between connection and withdrawal, and the mix of distance and immediacy that structures contemporary living. Loneliness has become ambient rather than exceptional: life is shaped by numbing connectivity, terminally online habits, and the accelerating drift toward isolation even within spaces and platforms nominally designed for togetherness. Desire both sharpens and stalls as communication filters through avatars and algorithms, which promise intimacy while reinforcing its scarcity. Closeness has…
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