The formulation 'egalitarian strangeness' is a direct borrowing from Courts voyages au pays du peuple Short Voyages to the Land of the People] (1990), a collection of essays by the contemporary French thinker Jacques Ranci re. Perhaps best known for his theory of radical equality as set out in Le Ma tre ignorant The Ignorant Schoolmaster] (1987), Ranci re reflects on ways in which a hierarchical social order based on inequality...