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  • I haven’t read the piece by Rodrigo Nunes that they’re drawing from, but the historical reference seems clear enough: instead of the Manichaean division of the physical world into good and evil, Augustine saw a superposition of two worlds (secular and religious, the “City of Man” and the “City of God”) which were superficially identical and which everyone inhabited simultaneously—so Christians could continue to go about their secular lives while reinterpreting it religiously, instead of explicitly separating themselves from evil.

    In that context, “alterity without difference” would be like Augustine’s Christians, superficially being part of the capitalist world order while simultaneously undermining it, instead of openly distancing themselves from it like the Manicheans.