[...] to marry their daughter to someone who sells chicken for a living. Nitin has debilitating nightmares about dying chickens.
="lsts lst1">•poultry industry
="lsts lst1">•cage-free farming


(there is no “irreducible” ="trms">ontological gap, disjuncture of temporality, ="trms">ontological un="trms">translatability, between='lgc'>:)
time of ="trms">history/capital ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= time of the gods/ritual

both ritual and capital ='lgc'>--involve='lgc'>='lgc'>--> exchange ="trms">relations ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> unpre="trms">dictable forms of movement (across domains)

="lsts lst1">•(show of being halal) re="trms">citation of kalma with the first ="trms">bird and the last, assuming comprehensive coverage for the ones who fall between
="lsts lst1">•Skylard s="trms">laughterhouse building hospitals and temples
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> emotional, ritual, commercial traffic across sacred and profane

="trms">consumption of neighboring ="trms">species


='strcls'>*cruelty as play='strcls'>*
(a less cultivated form of pleaser='qstn'>?)

deadended ="trms">bird
ceased-but-not-killed mouse
not dead, not killed, but not quite a being either

the power to turn ="trms">animals into things, as of they were never anything else

recognition of playful actually ='lgc'>--="ppl">Singh='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ethics of immanent ="trms">obligation

(='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]collaboration='lgc'>: ="trms">interrupt each other's train of thought)


(dramatization of) agonistic intimacy ='lgc'>: a ="trms">relationship of proximity and violence between neighboring ="trms">social groups (the body of neighboring ="trms">species)
='lgc'>--Taussig='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ritual violence (the most stunning prop is the human='lgc'>: the all too profane body with its various appendages, fluids, undulating surfaces, ="trms">folds, exists, entrances)
='lgc'>--="ppl">Veena='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sacrificial violence ='lgc'>: dramatization of one's own inevitable death (there is a certain ="trms">anxiety around violence that is ="trms">integral to ='strcls'>*the ="trms">imagination of an ethical life='strcls'>* in Hindu texts and practices)
='lgc'>--="frds">Sina='lgc'>='lgc'>--> gamer video of ="trms">zoo

condition of ="trms">viscerality
a condition of being ransomed to death

Venna ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a major theological transformation (a critique of violence) in a nonmessianic nonsoteriological sense رستگاری شناختی in South Asia took place with the Mahabharata

='strcls'>*cruelty ='lgc'>=/= violence='strcls'>*

="lsts lst1">•the feeling of noncruilty expressed in the unpre="trms">dictable attachments, at times across ="trms">species (companionship) in the Mahabharata (="ppl">Veena) ='lgc'>[in ="ppl">Attar='qstn'>? in Kelile and Demne='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•companionable thinking (Cavell)
="lsts lst1">•com="trms">mission ="trms">species (="ppl">="ppl">Haraway)
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Singh's agonistic intimacy='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. companionship may also involve forms of ="trms">mutual violence
="lstsrd">2. violence inevitability (in af="trms">finity or animus) does not remove a consideration of the mode of violence from the sphere of the ethical ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we must make space for the consideration of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦cruelty
="lsts lst2">◦="trms">differential vulnerability
="lstsrd">3. certain forms of companionable noncruilty may also breed accompanying forms of cruelty
="lstsrd">4. within conditions of death and cruelty ='strcls'>*it is not always clear what noncruilty might be='strcls'>*


a ="trms">bird cursing (="trms">presently taking root that will someday come to fruition) a human who is stubbornly injuring when need not, or تو نیکی می‌کن و در دجله انداز
(myth) asks us to think about cycles of violence
how an act never exists in isolation
chaos theory, the effect might come later

informal epic subplots ="trms">narrated in improvised forms


which ritual laments are available for massive ="trms">ecological shifts
...the death of others
...s="trms">cene of loss (='lgc'>='lgc'>~/= milieu)
='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>--="ppl">Singh='lgc'>-- virtue, piety, self-="trms">fashioning do not help to work through this (='at'>@="nms">apass)


devastation ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> cohabitation (of ="trms">species that were apart before)


Kelile and Demne ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> agonistics can be comic (even if repercussions of tragic) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mood of violence


“everything has to die”
="trms">question of ="trms">routinized ritual or commercial production of killable bodies and of things ceasing to ="trms">matter

="trms">animals don't die in villages, they could only be killed

="trms">anthropology of ethics
what is to kill='qstn'>?
what is to kill well='qstn'>?
what is to ber killed='qstn'>?
what is to be killable='qstn'>?

can we speak of a quality of death='qstn'>?

(="ppl">Veena, Cavell, Harraway's) ‘companion’ is not a resolution to ethical quandaries of human-="trms">animal ="trms">relations


culpability of homicide ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> veneration of sacrifice

life ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">zoo ='lgc'>=/= bios

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retro='lgc'>: (a post="trms">modern sensibility firmly rooted in the ="trms">present) appropriating ='lgc'>[use ='lgc'>+ exploit, pick ='lgc'>+ mix='lgc'>] the ="trms">aesthetics (aspects) of the ="trms">past while not longing for its return ='lgc'>=/= nostalgia='lgc'>: a mode of resistance against the ="trms">present

retro='lgc'>: a mode of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading, an attitude towards the ="trms">past without emotional attachment

ironic ="trms">consumption...

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... ='lgc'>=/= how adults might perceive the political context

dissident discourse
(audience looking for) counter regime messages

='strcls'>*nostalgia ='lgc'>+ nationalism within a postcolonial Europe='strcls'>*
Europe's repressed imperial ="trms">history ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> longing for the divided Europe of the Cold War ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> post="trms">socia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list nostalgia (in television ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cultural ="trms">memory='lgc'>])

="trms">past='lgc'>: retro comedy

="large lg1" stl="font-size:130%"> comedy='lgc'>: retrospective re="trms">presentation

(comedy does not='qstn'>?) antagonize its audience ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= build a ="trms">memory conflict
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]comedy='lgc'>: strive for reconciliation (by focusing on the everyday life of its colorful characters)

the good soldier Svejk ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> good-="trms">natured side of czech national identity

self-congratulatory ="trms">narrative ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- (when you think you are always) morally on the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right side
='at'>@="nms">apass

(tv series) forging resistance-based (national or individual) ="trms">memory


the way in which a ="trms">society understands its own ="trms">past ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> through culture (not a ="trms">matter for politicians and legislative ="trms">measures alone) that particular ="trms">narratives about the ="trms">past are kept alive and help to structure understandings of the ="trms">present

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strolling='lgc'>: walking in the city ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sense of belonging to the city
walking in 19th century (starting with England) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> something for the lower class
='lgc'>--later='lgc'>='lgc'>--> walking became a middle class pursuit (something you do in your garden ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> parks for walking)
city walking ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> claiming step by step parts of the city ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> practice of belonging ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ sense of place (in ="trms">history='lgc'> = nationalism) of certainty ='lgc'>+ comfort='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> belonging is an individual imperative (something that is created by the individual on the ground) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~/=='qstn'>? a ="trms">category of ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion='lgc'>]

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="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger='lgc'>: an expression by which the observer perceives as if something ='strcls'>*happened to the person who is angry='strcls'>* (a passive experience, not something that the person did)

intuition='lgc'> = recognition

="lsts lst1">•="trms">memory is really bad at re="trms">membering ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists
="lsts lst1">•="trms">memory is really good at re="trms">membering routes through space
="lsts lst1">•(humans are good at re="trms">membering) ="trms">agent-thinking ='lgc'>=/= abstract notions


='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger ='lgc'>==reveals='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">world='strcls'>*

="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> makes you ungly ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> prompts action
='lgc'>[the strange connection of='lgc'>: action ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ugliness='lgc'>]

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="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> post="trms">socia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list nostalgia='lgc'>: ="trms">relational expression of a heterogeneous set of desires that operate in an ="trms">intercultural ="trms">network

Imre

western European longing for the divided Europe of the Cold War ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Europe’s repressed imperial ="trms">history


="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> two ="trms">different modes of re="trms">membering='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">history ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> official, public and professional modes (as="trms">sociated with com="trms">memoration and musealization)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">memory ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> unofficial, popular and private modes (frequently as="trms">sociated with nostalgia and ="trms">consumerism)

="trms">literary and cinematic texts that foreground some form of preoccupation with the ="trms">past


="prgrph">-television (amnesiac qualities) has been accused of undermining ="trms">memory and perpetuating a sense of ephemerality and transience ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*television is also a powerful mnemonic tool='strcls'>*

='strcls'>***television is both amnesiac ='and'>& mnemonic='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> tv's propensity to resonate in ="trms">different temporalities at once

="large lg5" stl="font-size:114%"> television='lgc'>: a vehicle for the transformation of and a source of information about the quotidian ='lgc'>~ primary generator of collective ="trms">memory ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- this is now ="trms">social media, In="trms">stagram TikTok='lgc'>]

="trms">historical drama
pseudo documentary
period drama series
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> providing the viewers with a “useable ="trms">past” that is always related to and relevant to the concern[...]