The separation of individuals or groups resulting in the lack of or minimizing of social contact and/or communication. This separation may be accomplished by physical separation, by social barriers and by psychological mechanisms. In the latter, there may be interaction but no real communication.
    

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A yellow hand holding within its palm, a red and blue huddled figure representing an HIV positive person suffering in isolation; with a description of the social effects of the HIV infection; an advertisement by the Österreichische AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph, 199-.

People huddled together within prison walls edged with barbed wire with a lone figure bottom right suggesting the social isolation of someone who has AIDS; an advertisement for the information line for those affected by AIDS in prison by Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph.

Two HIV positive women look over their shoulders to suggest their social isolation while below the same women look forwards to reflect a more positive attitude; an advertisement for the support services offered for HIV positive women by Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Lauterbach and Boek.

A swirling crowd of people with the word "isolé" (isolated) typed diagonally across the page, with an extract from the passport dated 16 Dec 1979 bottom right; an analogy to the isolation felt by those with AIDS. Colour silk screen print after Roger Pfund, 1993.

A group of men sit and stand with the message: "Gay life. Our life is no longer isolated by AIDS. And yet: gay life is more"; an advertisement for safe sex by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Jörg Reichardt and Detlev Pusch.

Hikikomori : adolescence without end / Saitō Tamaki ; translated by Jeffrey Angles.

Quaranzine! : a zine about isolation, connectedness & survival in dark times / edited by Mad Covid.

A naked man lies with his eyes closed with one foot touching a lit candle held by a golden cupid; he lies on his side floating above an array of gold gift-wrapped presents among other items with one arm raised towards a glowing gold star with a gold cloud bearing a cupid, a personified gold moon and a falling teddy bear; includes the message in Italian: 'excluded because of AIDS'; one of a series of posters by the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz/Aide Suisse contre le SIDA/Aiuto AIDS Svizerro. Colour lithograph by Etienne Francey and Daniel Ammann.

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Hikikomori : adolescence without end / Saitō Tamaki ; translated by Jeffrey Angles.

Quaranzine! : a zine about isolation, connectedness & survival in dark times / edited by Mad Covid.

Having to : the world of one parent families / E. E. Cashmore.

Bat habitat. #28.