[...]cal) to generate ="trms">different kinds of ="trms">affects

1947 Partition of India (marked by massive ="trms">inter="trms">communal killing, rape, and abduction of women) ='lgc'>==/='lgc'>='lgc'>==> victim
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> refugees, evacuee property, abducted persons

his ="trms">fictionalized account of my ="trms">responses to his ="trms">questions inspired me to think
(your ="trms">fictionalized account of my ="trms">response to your ="trms">question inspires me to think)

='lgc'>[to='lgc'>] rake the fallen leaves of ="trms">language and ="trms">literature to recreate experiences...

="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> (usually) “treason” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> massacres and violation of human ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights by governmental forces

(one is forced to see events in other countiries in the light of issues pertaining to)  ="trms">transitional justice and the global form of truth

unknown dead ="trms">imagined as hungry and thirsty ghosts
='strcls'>*the living cannot offer the dead solace because the unknown dead cannot be placed within the grid of genealogical knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge necessary to make them into benign ="trms">ancestors='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-the ="trms">difference between kin and str="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angers, ="trms">ancestors and ghosts

='strcls'>**hospitality being offered to the str="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger could also become a way of reincorporating the estranged kin='strcls'>**(='qstn'>? -="nms">iranian hospitality='qstn'>?)

the ="trms">intertwined ="trms">nature of bureaucratic power and ritual action

the dead are haphazardly buried that have to be then contained or transformed through shamanic knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and ritual manipulations='qstn'>? -="ppl">Veena

="trms">modern bureaucratic procedures ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> tear apart the continuity of generational connections ='lgc'><-='lgc'>~ the work of ritual to restore connections is engaged

the ="trms">different ways we come to know something ='lgc'>=/= the experience of ‘carrying’ a knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge


...unknown dead in a milieu in which ="trms">ancestors and ghosts are not simply distant and abstract concepts but are felt with every sinew of the body, who come to haunt the descendants through dreams and apparitions ='lgc'>=/= Ta'zieh='lgc'>: ="trms">ancestors in contexts in which the ="trms">relation to the dead is com="trms">memorated primarily through national rituals

(in the Jeju uprising/massacre case that ="ppl">Veena studies) ‘victim’='lgc'>: the qualifying condition for genealogical connections to be maintained in ="trms">imagining kinship as constitutive of the ="trms">relations between the living and the dead ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= victim='lgc'>: an appeal to the ="trms">authority of subjective experience, or the knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge produced by the State about the dead as victim or traitor='lgc'>]

bureaucrats (victim or traitor='qstn'>?) and shaman (="trms">ancestor or ghost='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> entanglement of ="trms">different ways of knowing and classifying

(for the survivorss of Jeju after 70 years) inordinate character of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge appears in this ="trms">world as the unbearable burden of not being able to convert your dead kin into ="trms">ancestors consigning them to a ghostly existence

='lgc'>='lgc'>--> so that the ="trms">ancestors can rest peacefully in death and less in terms of the discourse of transnational justice or human ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights


reputation of a woman ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the marriage prospects of girls ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ideas of purity and honor ='lgc'>--="ppl">Veena='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “poisonous knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge” secreted by the large-scale abduction of women (in India-Pakistan Partition)

="prgrph">-cultural understanding of sex as especially polluting for a woman

disclosure or a coming to know that a close relative had a hidden ="trms">history tied to large ="trms">historical event ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> announcing an “otherness” to a close relative with whom one had inhabited a life.

Partition ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> distortion of everyday ="trms">language itself and its bodying forth
bodily ="trms">nature of ="trms">language
="trms">poetry suffused with exquisite portraits of grief
the sense that kinship ="trms">relations themselves have become lethal

(journalism's) ="trms">trap of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge/ignorance (ruth/falsity) binary ='lgc'>[asking for formal solutions to problems of indeterminacy because of the ="trms">finitude of knowing subjects or ="trms">veiling of objects='lgc'>] ='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">Veena trying to) attend to regions of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge that can turn us to change the ="trms">questions we ask

(inordinate) knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is contended with locally, diurnally, repeatedly

="ppl">Veena asking how is this knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>[catastrophic event secrete knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in the everyday='lgc'>] endured or contested; concealed or revealed; and what are ='strcls'>*rhythms='strcls'>* of these movements='qstn'>?

="large lg1" stl="font-size:146%"> ='strcls'>*inordinate knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-as citizens, how do we deal with the knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge that torture is regularly practiced as part of the security ="trms">apparatus of many democracies='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-what ="trms">responsibility do we bear for these practices that are before our eyes='lgc'>--that we cannot but help know='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-As ="trms">relational beings how do we reveal the extent of sexual violence or violent ="trms">histories of our families to our ="trms">children and to our grand="trms">children='qstn'>?

(='qstn'>?to make) ="trms">responses in terms of the cultural repertoire of one's own ="trms">society relating to the care of the dead

the necessity of embracing a mismatch between harm and healing, between not knowing and shading your eyes from what you cannot but help know ='lgc'>[-acceptance of a certain degree of ignorance as essential for life='lgc'>]

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="ppl">Ahmed, ="ppl">Sedgwick='lgc'>+Frank ='at'>@="nms">apass
installation of an automatic “anti-” (for example antibiologism, as the unshifting tenet of ‘theory’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">routinized antiessentialism='strcls'>*) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> loss of conceptual access to an entire thought-realm='strcls'>***

immersed in a precritical understanding of the body
='thdf'>the idea of biological construction having been rendered either unintelligible or naive (in feminism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an avowed ="trms">interest in the body ='lgc'>+ a persistent distaste for biological detail)

="trms">interested in antiracism and politics of globalization ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> crucial dimension of research='lgc'>: body ='lgc'><='lgc'>== “the precarious, accidental, ="trms">contingent, expedient, striving, dynamic status of life in a messy, complicated, resistant, brute ="trms">world of ="trms">materiality, a ="trms">world regulated by the exigencies, the forces, of space and time” ='lgc'>+ the conditions under which bodies are encultured, psychologized, given identity, ="trms">historical location, and ="trms">agency


='strcls'>*(you can) speak (back) to post="trms">modernism (or democracy etc.), rather than simply speak on (your ="trms">relationship to) it='strcls'>*

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="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> ="ppl">="ppl">Hayward on the role of ="trms">embodiment in visual cultures ='lgc'>+ meaning of ="trms">animals in re="trms">presentation

='strcls'>*to envision ="trms">animal='strcls'>*='lgc'> = to visualize, to experience, to figure, to image, kinds of ="trms">species, discourses, re="trms">presentations, institutions, ="trms">histories, ="trms">epistemologies ='lgc'>+ to “="trms">imagine possible” a set of ="trms">material and ethical ="trms">relationships between ="trms">species

envisioning='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•a mode of seeing and ="trms">embodying, of immersing and inhabiting, and of ="trms">storytelling and theorizing in a ="trms">techno-="trms">scientific ="trms">world of “eye machine”
="lsts lst1">•a range of practices for ="trms">situating the “self” (that tender thing in post="trms">modernity) in places and spaces grown ="trms">thick with entanglements and consequences; a form both of “to face” and “to perceive”

="trms">aesthetic conceptions of beauty and/or ambiguity coupled with biological ="trms">epistemology and ="trms">phenomenology of the organisms ='lgc'>--in='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in Jean Painleve, Genevieve Hamon, Leni Riefenstahl, David Powell ='lgc'>==construct='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a host of hybridized and enmeshed “encounters”

="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%"> bio="trms">semiotics
="trms">zoo="trms">semiotics
="prgrph">-humanist fascist ="trms">aesthetic ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> desires to ="trms">memorialize “beautiful and unpolluted” coral ="trms">communities
="prgrph">-promise of immediate and luminous experience of “jellyfish otherness”
="prgrph">-="trms">systems (of power='qstn'>?) that constitutively produce ="trms">animal and human actors



human-="trms">animal ='lgc'>+ nonhuman-="trms">animal ='lgc'>+ ="trms">apparatuses ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> co-constitutive in the process of trying to know something about whale ="trms">ecology

(="ppl">="ppl">Hayward > ="ppl">Whitehead='lgc'>:) concrescence='lgc'>: “we” (con prefix) ere- (create) scence (sense, or the “s="trms">cene,” that which is seen), the ="trms">present is given by a consense of subjective forms. We are multiple individuals, but there are also multiple individual ="trms">agents of consciousness operant in the construction of the given.
="prgrph">-="trms">literal ="trms">materialization of a dynamic produced

="large lg5" stl="font-size:119%"> photograph (only one part, a kind of lively limb, of the relay)='lgc'>:
(="nms">ajayeb style ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) a bumptious and lively event of the processes of whale studies and whales themselves ='lgc'>=/= a still record of a whale “that had been there”

the image='lgc'>: a kind of connective tissue, soliciting one's senses

solar light ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> brushed up against, even touched, the whale ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">translated through the camera ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> into film ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> into chemical bathes ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> into photo-paper ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> through my eye as a research assistant

='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ‘photograph='lgc'>: ="trms">material, immanent, ="trms">interconnected’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> somatic intelligibility (="trms">embodiment) to my own somatic intelligence ='lgc'>~ enacted an encounter between the senses (subjective feelings) and their sense (objective knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges[...]