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This short essay offers thoughts on bell hooks’s use of the list form in the phrase ‘white supremacist capitalist patriarchy’. While this list suggests that the social forces it contains work together in one unified direction, we can also look to instances in which they pull in opposing directions. However, the function of the list may not be to faithfully map the complexities of social life, but, rather, in its reduction and simplicity, to enable us to believe that social transformation is possible.
Part of The Case for Reduction Containing:
Introduction / Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Jakob Schillinger
The Case and the Signifier: Generalization in Freud’s Rat Man / Iracema Dulley
Haptic Reductions: A Sceptic’s Guide for Responding to the Touch of Crisis / Rachel Aumiller
Disalienation and Structuralism: Fanon with Lévi-Strauss / Christopher Chamberlin
Black Box Allegories of Gulf Futurism: The Irreducible Other of Computational Capital / Özgün Eylül İşcen
Lines that Reduce: Biography, Palms, Borders / Sam Dolbear
Post-anti-identitarianism: The Forms of Contemporary Gender and Sexuality
Nothing Beyond the Name: Towards an Eclipse of Listening in the Psychotherapeutic Enterprise / Sarath Jakka
Reduction in Computer Music: Bodies, Temporalities, and Generative Computation / Federica Buongiorno
Reduction in Time: Kinaesthetic and Traumatic Experiences of the Present in Literary Texts / Alberica Bazzoni
Seeking Home: Vignettes of Homes and Homing / Amina ElHalawani
Law Is Other Wor(l)ds / Xenia Chiaramonte
On the List / Sam Dolbear, Ben Nichols, Claudia Peppel
White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy
Proust List Impulse / Sam Dolbear
A List of Fears: Eva Kot’átková’s Asylum / Claudia Peppel
How to Bake X Cake: Notes on the Recipe / Iracema Dulley
Walking Away, Walking in Circles, Writing Lists / Rachel Aumiller
Title
White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy
Author(s)
Ben Nichols
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-25_14
Description
This short essay offers thoughts on bell hooks’s use of the list form in the phrase ‘white supremacist capitalist patriarchy’. While this list suggests that the social forces it contains work together in one unified direction, we can also look to instances in which they pull in opposing directions. However, the function of the list may not be to faithfully map the complexities of social life, but, rather, in its reduction and simplicity, to enable us to believe that social transformation is possible.
Is Part Of
The Case for Reduction
Place
Berlin
Publisher
ICI Berlin Press
Date
11 October 2022
Subject
System
Oppression
Social complexity
Rhetorical simplicity
Social transformation
Rhetorical criticism
Rights
© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Language
en-GB
page start
263
page end
265
Source
The Case for Reduction, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Jakob Schillinger, Cultural Inquiry, 25 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022), pp. 263–65
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