Simplification makes determinations both more and less universal, mourning what it suppresses

Evidence

At the same moment, the determination thus simplified exists as a type, an exemplar - mourning its individuality - and a particular essence - mourning its universality. To produce this ontological residue involves a double suppression and a double preservation. Suppression occurs through the work of habit, with its blunting and flattening effects, and through sacrifice, or alienation. Preservation has involved two forms of permanence: the virtuality created by reactualizing, and the singularity which, in its disappearance, has left itself behind as an interiorized trace: Even ‘to preserve’ includes a negative element, namely, that something is removed from its immediacy and so from an existence which is open to external influences, in order to preserve it. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1058

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the double suppression/preservation structure of simplification — the onto-logical residue of type versus particular essence.
• XREF: Mourning as an ontological residue connects to Freud’s mourning work and to Malabou’s own plasticity as mourning of form. — connects to: Habit’s simplification costs spirit a sacrificial alienation of itself.; Money erases qualitative distinctions by reducing everything to quantity — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 9785; Simplified definitions produce inadequate solutions to complex problems — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 923 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Simplification is the essence and aim of speculative teleology. #expands (0.78)
• Simplified definitions produce inadequate solutions to complex problems #qualifies (0.74) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 923
• Habit’s simplification costs spirit a sacrificial alienation of itself. #expands (0.72)
• Symbolization collapses complex power conditions into experienced units. #exemplifies (0.72) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 638
• When quantification destroys qualitative perception, bare sensation replaces experience. #exemplifies (0.71) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 257
• Money erases qualitative distinctions by reducing everything to quantity #exemplifies (0.70) — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 9785
• Algorithmic moderation fails when reduced to information transfer rather than ritual meaning. #exemplifies (0.70) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 1406