The Irreducible I

The Irreducible I: Space, Place, Authenticity, and Change
by Cecilia Dougherty
(Atropos Press, New York & Dresden, 2013)

THE IRREDUCIBLE I: SPACE, PLACE, AUTHENTICITY, AND CHANGE examines subjectivity within the shared space of the everyday, engaging a wide range of disciplines from Bruno Latour’s social theories to Barbara Hammer’s filmic possession of the feminine.

The writings of Georges Perec and Raoul Vaneigem are tested against the observations of geographer Yi Fu Tuan, journalist Naomi Klein, and social historian W. E. B. Du Bois, connecting processes by which humans become subjects and non-humans, technologies, and objects become key relational elements in the formation of an authentic space of daily life.

The works of Félix Guattari, Donna Haraway, Avital Ronell, Henri Lefebvre, Luce Irigaray and Michel de Certeau illuminate nodal points along pathways of resistance to the narrowing of experience by state and corporate agendas for control. The relational I emerges as a key for human agency, for presenting an ever-becoming self to an ever-forming and interconnected global landscape of actual possibility.

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