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The Case for Reduction

Edited by
Christoph F. E. Holzhey
Jakob Schillinger

Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022

Cover design: Studio Bens with an image by Claudia Peppel, 2020

Critical discourse hardly knows a more devastating charge against theories, technologies, or structures than that of being reductive. Yet, expansion and growth cannot fare any better today. This volume suspends anti-reductionist reflexes to focus on the experiences and practices of different kinds of reduction, their generative potentials, ethics, and politics. Can their violences be contained and their benefits transported to other contexts?

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Cultural Inquiry, 25
ISSN (Print): 2627-728X
ISSN (Online): 2627-731X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-25

Contents

IntroductionChristoph F. E. Holzhey and Jakob Schillinger1-12

The Case and the Signifier: Generalization in Freud’s Rat ManIracema Dulley13-37

Haptic Reductions: A Sceptic’s Guide for Responding to the Touch of CrisisRachel Aumiller39-61

Disalienation and Structuralism: Fanon with Lévi-StraussChristopher Chamberlin61-89

Black Box Allegories of Gulf Futurism: The Irreducible Other of Computational CapitalÖzgün Eylül İşcen91-115

Lines that Reduce: Biography, Palms, BordersSam Dolbear117-133

Post-anti-identitarianism: The Forms of Contemporary Gender and SexualityBen Nichols135-153

Nothing Beyond the Name: Towards an Eclipse of Listening in the Psychotherapeutic EnterpriseSarath Jakka155-173

Reduction in Computer Music: Bodies, Temporalities, and Generative ComputationFederica Buongiorno175-190

Reduction in Time: Kinaesthetic and Traumatic Experiences of the Present in Literary TextsAlberica Bazzoni191-212

Seeking Home: Vignettes of Homes and HomingAmina ElHalawani213-226

Law Is Other Wor(l)dsXenia Chiaramonte227-250

Excursus

On the ListSam Dolbear, Ben Nichols and Claudia Peppel253-261

White Supremacist Capitalist PatriarchyBen Nichols263-265

Proust List ImpulseSam Dolbear267-270

A List of Fears: Eva Kot’átková’s AsylumClaudia Peppel271-276

How to Bake X Cake: Notes on the RecipeIracema Dulley277-279

Walking Away, Walking in Circles, Writing ListsRachel Aumiller281-283

Notes on the Contributors

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