The Case for Reduction

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?

Introduction | CHRISTOPH F. E. HOLZHEY and JAKOB SCHILLINGER | 1 12
The Case and the Signifier: Generalization in Freud s Rat Man | IRACEMA DULLEY | 13 37
Haptic Reductions: A Sceptic s Guide for Responding to the Touch of Crisis | RACHEL AUMILLER | 39 61
Disalienation and Structuralism: Fanon with Lévi-Strauss | CHRISTOPHER CHAMBERLIN | 61 89
Black Box Allegories of Gulf Futurism: The Irreducible Other of Computational Capital | ÖZGÜN EYLÜL CEN | 91 115
Lines that Reduce: Biography, Palms, Borders | SAM DOLBEAR | 117 33
Post-anti-identitarianism: The Forms of Contemporary Gender and Sexuality | BEN NICHOLS | 135 53
Nothing Beyond the Name: Towards an Eclipse of Listening in the Psychotherapeutic Enterprise | SARATH JAKKA | 155 73
Reduction in Computer Music: Bodies, Temporalities, and Generative Computation | FEDERICA BUONGIORNO | 175 90
Reduction in Time: Kinaesthetic and Traumatic Experiences of the Present in Literary Texts | ALBERICA BAZZONI | 191 212
Seeking Home: Vignettes of Homes and Homing | AMINA ELHALAWANI | 213 26
Law Is Other Wor(l)ds | XENIA CHIARAMONTE | 227 50
EXCURSUS
On the List | SAM DOLBEAR, BEN NICHOLS, and CLAUDIA PEPPEL | 253 61
White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy | BEN NICHOLS | 263 65
Proust List Impulse | SAM DOLBEAR | 267 70
A List of Fears: Eva Kot átková s Asylum | CLAUDIA PEPPEL | 271 76
How to Bake X Cake: Notes on the Recipe | IRACEMA DULLEY | 277 79
Walking Away, Walking in Circles, Writing Lists | RACHEL AUMILLER | 281 83