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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.
Der Zusammenhang fundamentaler Symmetriestrukturen mit dem Zugang moderner Naturwissenschaften zur abstrakten Beschreibung komplexer Systeme wird dargestellt. Beginnend mit der geometrischen Symmetrie der Schneeflocke und dem symmetrietheoretischen Ansatz in Platons Timaios wird der symmetrietheoretische Ansatz moderner Naturwissenschaften exemplifiziert und analysiert. Die mathematische Abstraktion wird als reduktionistische Methode verstanden.
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?