TY  - CHAP
A1  - Dolbear, Sam
T1  - Lines that reduce : biography, palms, borders
T2  - The case for reduction / edited by Christoph F.E. Holzhey and Jakob Schillinger ; Cultural Inquiry ; 25
N2  - Through various cases and instances, this essay opens with the question of biography and the demands of its form: that is, biography's attempt to reduce historical totalities to the page in moments of sudden condensation. It then introduces the figure of Charlotte Wolff (1897–1986), a doctor and later hand reader and sexologist, who appears on a diagram, constructed by Walter Benjamin in 1932, to map his life through his 'Urbekanntschaften' (primal acquaintances). It then seeks to transpose Benjamin's diagram into other linear forms, such as a family tree, a diagram of chemical affinity, and an astral chart, to add one: the diagram as a map of the hand. This opens up a number of temporal, historical, and epistemic reductions, or cases of reduction, in Wolff's work and beyond. It concludes with a particular moment in Wolff's biography - her arrest in 1933 and her escape to Paris - as a final instance of the line, as border.
KW  - Autobiografie
KW  - Benjamin, Walter
KW  - Berliner Chronik
KW  - Wolff, Charlotte
KW  - Handlesekunst
KW  - Benjamin, Walter: Pergamentheft
KW  - Palmistry
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/72254
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-722543
UR  - https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-25/dolbear_lines-that-reduce.pdf
SN  - 978-3-96558-041-1
SN  - 978-3-96558-040-4
SN  - 2627-731X
SP  - 117
EP  - 133
PB  - ICI Press
CY  - Berlin
ER  -