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
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The Case and the Signifier: Generalization in Freud’s Rat Man
- Haptic Reductions: A Sceptic’s Guide for Responding to the Touch of Crisis
- Disalienation and Structuralism: Fanon with Lévi-Strauss
- Black Box Allegories of Gulf Futurism: The Irreducible Other of Computational Capital
- Lines that Reduce: Biography, Palms, Borders
- Post-anti-identitarianism: The Forms of Contemporary Gender and Sexuality
- Nothing Beyond the Name: Towards an Eclipse of Listening in the Psychotherapeutic Enterprise
- Reduction in Computer Music: Bodies, Temporalities, and Generative Computation
- Reduction in Time: Kinaesthetic and Traumatic Experiences of the Present in Literary Texts
- Seeking Home: Vignettes of Homes and Homing
- Law Is Other Wor(l)ds
