@article{Roden_2019, title={Subtractive-Catastrophic Xenophilia}, volume={16}, url={https://identitiesjournal.edu.mk/index.php/IJPGC/article/view/371}, DOI={10.51151/identities.v16i1-2.371}, abstractNote={<p>Subtraction is a critical method whereby a cognitively inaccessible reality is thought in terms of its inaccessibility or “subtraction” from discourse. In this essay I begin by considering the role of subtraction in Alain Badiou’s work, where the method receives its most explicit contemporary articulation. I then generalize subtraction beyond Badiou’s ontology to explore a productive aporia in posthumanist theory. The implicit subtraction of posthumanist epistemology and ontology, I claim, confronts theorists of the posthuman with an inescapable tension between their philosophical language and its deployment within the historical situation I call the “posthumanist predicament.” This reveals an equivalence between ontological subtraction and an empty compulsion to become what one cannot yet think, or “xenophilia.” That is, between a philosophy of limits that forecloses the thought of the posthuman (qua defined structure or subject) through subtraction and an implicit desire to construct or “become” this subtracted, unpresented posthuman.</p> <p>Author(s): David Roden&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>Title (English): Subtractive-Catastrophic Xenophilia</p> <p>Journal Reference: <em>Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture</em>, Vol. 16, No. 1-2 (Summer - Winter 2019)</p> <p>Publisher: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje</p> <p>Page Range: 40-46</p> <p>Page Count: 7</p> <p>Citation (English): David Roden, “Subtractive-Catastrophic Xenophilia,” <em>Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture</em>, Vol. 16, No. 1-2 (Summer - Winter 2019): 40-46.</p>}, number={1-2}, journal={Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture}, author={Roden, David}, year={2019}, month={Dec.}, pages={40-46} }