Well, you're not the only one. I'm posting a version of
the answer I gave to someone else who asked the same
"back channel"....
Very sorry for my neophrasism. I make up words, too carelessly.
"Critical reflexive topology" is a phrase made up
of Jay's discussion of topology and the trope of "post-modern"
research ("critical-reflexive") that calls for critical
reflection on oneself & for research that invites the researched
to talk back.
Trying to make sense of my own phrasing, retrospectively --
no matter how fine-grained and nuanced the distinctions we
make among mixtures & gradients of affect, unless we account
for the relational ground of feelings, we won't alter
the binary character of our representations (of self/other)
and so we won't undo the effects (like ideological control)
of overly-simple taxonomies. That's close to what I was
thinking at the time. Now I'm not so sure of the sense it makes.
Judy
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