Text: n-1 is a crucial method in our work as it opposes minimal difference to maximal destruction and therefore creates an alternative to modernity’s “destructive character” (Walter Benjamin): those utopian aspirations of total reduction and the tab

n-1 is a crucial method in our work as it opposes minimal difference to maximal destruction and therefore creates an alternative to modernity’s “destructive character” (Walter Benjamin): those utopian aspirations of total reduction and the tabula rasa that have been regarded as bound up with paternalistic, colonial, and totalitarian attitudes. n-1, for us, has the potential to find a gap in “the history we live, the history that has been imposed on us, [that] is nothing other than the result of the other histories that this very history had to oust in order to affirm itself.” (Carmelo Bene)