[...]trophy
='lgc'>[="nms">Cinderella doesn't experience atrophy after insult upon insult ='lgc'>=/= ="nms">Bambi's ="trms">memory='lgc'>]

transculturalism ='lgc'>~ “seeing oneself in the other”
='strcls'>*="trms">language and ="trms">materiality ="trms">interact within an unstable locus of ="trms">historicity='strcls'>* (="trms">specific ="trms">historical conditions) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a european model of conviviality='lgc'>]
='lgc'><='lgc'>== ="trms">modern globalism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> reinventing of the new common culture /humanism ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'><='lgc'>==> coalescence='lgc'>: meeting, ="trms">intermingling of ="trms">different people and ="trms">species and cultures and goods ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> could be damaging and unintentional, hurting the ="trms">world='lgc'>: decay, emergent, atrophy, new identities, crisis in ="trms">language, confusing boundaries, challenges of life,,,='lgc'>]

(o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins of bad feeling ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) looking at='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•damaged bodies
="lsts lst1">•damaged subjectivities
="lsts lst1">•damaged ="trms">communities
="lsts lst1">•damaged ="trms">relations ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> Udyr ="trms">monster
="lsts lst1">•damaged ="trms">ecologies
="lsts lst1">•damaged ="trms">histories ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> in="trms">somnia
="lsts lst1">•

(='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Mia) is there (only) death at the end of entropy='qstn'>?
sequence of events from the point of view of plague ="trms">narrative
extermination ='lgc'>+ determination, laws of identity, repetition

the ="trms">material despair of a colonial capital ="trms">modern condition leading in high speed to the entropy of cultural-individual ethics, under the overwhelming weight of tangible misery ='lgc'>--(="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Mia)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cognize the immediate ="trms">material urgency of the end="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered subjectivity


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='lgc'>--faceless='lgc'>--
non='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> nonhuman ='lgc'>+ non='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> destabilizing effects
with their flexible plasticity, has an issue with appearance ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> subjectivity's disas="trms">sociation from the ="trms">world
='lgc'>[in no (or which) calculus of assurance are they moving='qstn'>?='lgc'>]


ruined main body (of the performance)
ruin is (a ="trms">fictional being) adding additional variety to ="trms">technical being (frontier ="trms">technologies) of Norway
="prgrph">-obsolescence (and why not adjustment='qstn'>? ='lgc'>=/= extremist ="trms">position ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to emerge fanatically from the ruins)='lgc'>--(can we use our ="trms">imagination not for ="trms">world scale future speculation, and rather for small adjustment of this space='qstn'>?)
="prgrph">-give expression and meaning to the ="trms">material culture


='lgc'>--landscape='lgc'>--
using it in the performance='lgc'>: a lens that refuses the abstraction of elements ="trms">relation in a vacuum (as its optics, not a Blickmaschin)
show us='lgc'>: big ="trms">stories take their form from seemingly minor ="trms">contingencies, a="trms">symmetrical encounters, and moments of indeterminacy

(with “str="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger within” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=='qstn'>? ‘desire within'='lgc'>]) are we at the space of ="trms">complain='qstn'>? ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- dis="trms">positions of Beschwerde
a form of protest ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (disenfranchized ="trms">language of) ='strcls'>*mutated rage='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> always innocent ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">agent of delivery
(protest part of) the proud and brutal ="trms">history of break-out syntax of civic ="trms">responsibility (='lgc'>=/= adjustment)

rage ='and'>& ecstasy

ruin ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> doom ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> rage ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> innocence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> delivery='lgc'>: performance


='lgc'>--ruin='lgc'>--
we can and should ='strcls'>***navigate the ruin='strcls'>***
(navigate ='lgc'>=/= asset-production)
="prgrph">-capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list (owning the ="trms">rhetoric of progress) telling us / teach us to ignore ruins (in the making)
="prgrph">-is there life in ruin='qstn'>? ='lgc'>--="ppl">Tsing='lgc'>='lgc'>--> place of unsettled identities, ='strcls'>*in it each of us become ourselves with the help of a less-than ideal collaboration='strcls'>*

bring your curiosity

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contaminated diversity ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= doom='lgc'>: a form of missing that which is contaminated, (an ="trms">affect typical of ="nms">Tehran,) one has lost the pulse of the ="trms">world='lgc'>]
(hard to clasify)
='strcls'>*cultures and ="trms">species that don't adjust well to dist="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbance='strcls'>* (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- we shouldn't lose hope on them)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**precarious survival='strcls'>** ='lgc'>: in order to live you need help, always subject to the indeterminacy of self and other's transformations (='lgc'>=/= MacGyver selfish gene ="trms">story) ='lgc'>[="frds">Sina and ="frds scrmbld">Agnes hiking in the need for sticks to walk='lgc'>], ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='qstn'>? “kinds” and “types” emerge; and you need multiple forms of curiosity


='strcls'>*neoclassical economics (which is today's economic model) (='lgc'><='lgc'>== ="trms">modern economy)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•theory of supply and ="trms">demand
="lsts lst1">•theory of rational individual choice ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> maximize utility and profit (='lgc'><='lgc'>== ="trms">methodological individuation='lgc'>: “motivation/action of individual ="trms">agents ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">causal accounts of ="trms">social”)
='strcls'>*population genetics (study of evolution from the genetics point of view) (='lgc'><='lgc'>== evolutionary synthesis ='lgc'>+ ="trms">modern biology)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•adaptation
="lsts lst1">•speciation
="lsts lst1">•population
="lsts lst1">•structure
='lgc'>}='lgc'>==='lgc'>{formed in late 19th century and came to power in early 20th century to redefine ="trms">modern knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “survival='lgc'> = fighting for oneself against others” (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> The 100 TV series popular fantasies of survival ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ what does it take to stay alive='lgc'>]) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ='strcls'>**conquest and expansion='strcls'>** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> selfish gene (theory of individuals not effected by encounters, they use encounters, but not changed by them)
='lgc'>=/= ‘what does it take to stay alive’ could be a ='strcls'>*="trms">matter of finding livable collaborations='strcls'>*='lgc'> = ='strcls'>*working across ="trms">difference='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> we don't know who we are, until we ="trms">interact across ="trms">difference at multiple levels ='lgc'>--="ppl">Tsing='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**identities are formed in ="trms">histories of encounters='strcls'>**

neoclassical economics theories='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•supply and ="trms">demand
="lsts lst1">•rational individual choice ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> maximize utility and profit (='lgc'><='lgc'>== ="trms">methodological individuation='lgc'>: “motivation/action of individual ="trms">agents ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">causal accounts of ="trms">social”)
="prgrph">-

dreams of ="trms">modernity='lgc'>: mobilization of a agricultural cooperative movement ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> industrial disengagement ='lgc'>+ intimacy of family's farm


slow dist="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbance

mode of inquiry='lgc'>: take small details and ask big ="trms">questions with them

="large lg10" stl="font-size:104%"> living in ruins
='lgc'>--="frds scrmbld">Jassem='lgc'>='lgc'>--> maybe is a nightmare ="trms">story
='lgc'>--="ppl">Tsing='lgc'>='lgc'>--> maybe is a mushroom ="trms">story
(capital/genocide/...)
(destroyed by...)

rats, rabbits, and algae seaweed

your abilites to nurture and tell ="trms">stories ='lgc'>--tales='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*life emerging from damaged human comunities='strcls'>* (and blasted landscapes) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> not exactly a ="trms">story of hope (='lgc'>=/= towards a better sleep, the “less you know better you sleep” kind of ="trms">story), ="trms">stories of displacement and losses (due to war and concentration of wealth in our time)
='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*big ="trms">narrative of progress='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: a single ="trms">world ="trms">trajectory and time ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*time of surprise='strcls'>*='lgc'>] of which “everybody takes part” (='strcls'>*moving forward together='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#sci-fi series of transnational crew on a spaceship) ...powerful ways of knowing the ="trms">world ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>==='qstn'>?='lgc'>== renaissance='lgc'>] (='lgc'>--my ="nms">ajayeb project is about those ways of knowing, ="trms">stories of what sets the ="trms">world on motion, such as universalism ='and'>& cultural relativism)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*building ="trms">communal ="trms">agenda='strcls'>* ='lgc'>~ (dream of) transculturalism ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ blend ="trms">communal identities='lgc'>] (='lgc'><='lgc'>== ="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Mia's Norway='lgc'>: humans get richer, more efficient, and more make the ="trms">natural ="trms">world work for them), is given to us by “men” (that we don't have to follow)

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]progress='lgc'>: ="trms">anthropogentic landscapes haunted by ="trms">imagined futures

='lgc'>--or='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (you might) leave your home and run into a vast new problem

stability is a privilege

='lgc'>[what is='qstn'>?='lgc'>] the future of your dreams
='lgc'>[what are='qstn'>?='lgc'>] the nunhumans worth noticing

="trms">species that signal “i am available”


='lgc'>[capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list accumulations ='lgc'>+ insult upon insult upon insult ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='lgc'>] diversity

diversity='lgc'>: (in Germany, considered archaic and chaotic) collateral damage of improvement, necessory victim of progress


fire, herding, farming,
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> creating niches for hunting and forging
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> messing with (="trms">nature)


="prgrph">-the ="trms">question of how much (of human, neighbor, etc.) dist="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbance we can live with
="prgrph">-what is to consider other's (="trms">species, peasant, etc.) ways of life-making ="trms">trajectories along ours='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">world-making (requires this)='lgc'>]


the ="trms">question of niche-making
="prgrph">-niches ="trms">interact with one another

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]alienation='lgc'>: the ability to stand alone (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Nietzschean ethics ='lgc'>=/= niche-making entanglement ='strcls'>*always imperfect and continent='strcls'>*)
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (people, things, and ="trms">species become) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]assets='lgc'>: mobiles that can be moved from their life="trms">worlds to be exchanged elsewhere='lgc'>--everything else is waste (='lgc'>=/= eating others)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> progress='lgc'>: search for assets ='lgc'>=/= art='lgc'>: unalienated critical work, ='strcls'>***reciprocal capture='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~> tumble ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= transcend one another, or bow down, ="trms">question of ="trms">integration='lgc'>]

='strcls'>*niche='lgc'>: adjusted timing ='and'>& quality, small ="trms">stories, convexe,
='lgc'>=/= house ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> has foundation
='lgc'>=/= your monument
='lgc'>=/= building

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="large lg1" stl="font-size:130%"> ='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
="trms">ecologies of nothingness='strcls'>***

premise of my ="trms">lecture='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*all places are polluted and difficult='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•‘abuse of ="trms">language’ is every time you open your mouth
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">social always always in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes nonhuman
="lsts lst1">•there is no encounter without the contractual

..and i can't tell grave from garden

="prgrph">-perhaps i have been unconsciously working on the ="trms">question of “why are we here='qstn'>?” or “am i here='qstn'>?”
="prgrph">-cartographies of thinking='lgc'>--&='lgc'>--how i am inscribed in them
(itineraries i am stuck with)
going to a place ='lgc'>=/= embrace it as a site
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> always i have a resistance to where i am='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the ways we lose a sense of place ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> displacement
="lsts lst1">•the ways we experience livability through places
(has to do with my own broken/corrupt/fubar link with ="trms">ancestry ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- only “your people” can show you how to ="trms">imagine it, the center/home)

transportation ='lgc'>--='lgc'>{traumatic ='and'>& distruptive='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> transformation

time of surprise ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> non='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal (udyr)
="prgrph">-="trms">nature-culture patchworks
="prgrph">-perspectival and performative
="prgrph">-contaminative and ="trms">communicative
='strcls'>*fantastic and real vision='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-things that don't fit together, yet, there ='strcls'>*are='strcls'>* together ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">sym (='lgc'>=/= bifurcation) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> awkward ="trms">relations ='and'>& ="trms">interrupting ="trms">categories
="lsts lst1">•(necrophobia)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">schizophrenic ="trms">relations to...
="lsts lst1">•deconstruction of ="trms">presence...

(for you there is also) ='strcls'>***many fantastically large set of contexts within which to say “yes”='strcls'>***

(="ppl">Tsing's) ='strcls'>*contaminated diversity='strcls'>* (complicated, ugly, humbling) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ‘end="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered ="trms">species’ and cultures (innocent victims of human progress)='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-implicates survivors in ="trms">histories of greed, damage, and destruction ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cacophony of troubled ="trms">stories ='lgc'>--might='lgc'>='lgc'>--> help to learn something about the cultural and ="trms">natural ="trms">histories at stake
="prgrph">-difficult to ="trms">love and relate

joint organs ='lgc'>{part plant, part fungus='lgc'>} ="trms">inter="trms">species phisiology ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*mushroom='strcls'>*



='strcls'>*tumble='lgc'>: falll down as if collapsing (from up="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right ="trms">position), thrown together (in mess, and very difficult to rewind)
='lgc'>=/= transcend
='lgc'>=/= entropy

="lsts lst1">•bodies tumble into bodies ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">monsters
="lsts lst1">•="trms">histories tumble into ="trms">histories ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ghosts
="lsts lst1">•="trms">stories tumble into ="trms">stories ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures

(="trms">material life="trms">world tumble into) forests tumble into ="trms">fables tumble into politics tumble into ...

='strcls'>***dispersal ='and'>& entanglement='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>{
="lsts lst1">•dispersal ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> shattered, torn, broken, dispersed, made p="trms">articulate, whisked away on the breeze (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> smoke, Urashima turning into particls, dud to cough with سرفه sorfe) ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Mia='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> time is crossed out ويرانه
="lsts lst1">•entanglement ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> patchwork, care, weave, (together, reconnected, acknowledging care and entanglement) ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="frds scrmbld">Kirsten='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> time of the hut کاشانه
='lgc'>} “&” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='qstn'>?='qstn'>?='qstn'>? ="trms">stories='qstn'>? reciprocal capture ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> immanent new modes of existing (in damage and loss) ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="frds">Sina='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> time (and things) are diffractivelly/="trms">differentially constituted


as humans we also have these qualities='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•our plasticity
="lsts lst1">•our ability to be ="trms">affected
="lsts lst1">•our ability to hybridize


(="trms">modern human activity, burning man insults ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">monsters='lgc'>: ="nms">ajayeb-e ="trms">wonders of ="trms">symbiosis (threats of ="trms">ecological disruption, multi="trms">species entanglement)
(="ppl">Tsing, a useful figure to think with ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>)
="lsts lst1">•they help to pay attention to (ancient ="trms">chimeric) entanglement
="lsts lst1">•they point to ="trms">monstrosity of man
="lsts lst1">•they point toward life's ="trms">symbiotic entanglement across bodies
="trms">monsters='lgc'>: ="trms">nature suddenly unfamiliar (acting like udyr)

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]ghosts='lgc'>: phantoms inside ='lgc'>[your='lgc'>] (="trms">natural) ="trms">history, layered temporalities of living and dying (='lgc'>==shape='lgc'>='lgc'>==> landscapes), creatures of ambivalent entanglement ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (help us ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read) ='strcls'>*life's enmeshment in landscapes='strcls'>*


suffering from the ill of another ="trms">species (or people)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•bacteria inside (='lgc'><='lgc'>== pollution, radiation)
="lsts lst1">•people next door (='lgc'><='lgc'>== war, politics)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this is the condition of ="trms">anthropo="trms">cene entanglement



='lgc'>[productive ="trms">horror of our civil performance='lgc'>--="frds scrmbld">Kirsten, ="frds">Sina, ="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Mia:='lgc'>]

temporalities of ruin, body, optics
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       matrix of rage, ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure, desire

rage (violently ="trms">affective contact)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ghosts='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Mia's performance ='lgc'>~ “big ="trms">story"='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>**="trms">histories tumbled into ="trms">histories='strcls'>** (“ghosts” ='lgc'><='lgc'>== bad death ='lgc'><='lgc'>== settler colonialism ='lgc'>+ expansive capitalism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they brought with them a peculiar kind of time='lgc'>: looking straight ahead to the future ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> optimization ='and'>& salvation of a ='strcls'>*single ="trms">past='strcls'>*='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ruthless ambition ='and'>& ='lgc'>[="trms">modernity's time:='lgc'>] metronomic ="trms">synchrony 🕓)
="lsts lst1">•animating feral and partial connections
="lsts lst1">•remind us of an ='strcls'>*impossible ="trms">present='strcls'>* (that we live in)
='strcls'>* (="trms">embodied) ="trms">contingency, a="trms">symmetry, indeterminacy ='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•hauntings (are not im="trms">material!) ='lgc'>: presumptive absence (presumed in the absence)

="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">monsters='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Kirsten's objects ='lgc'>~ small ="trms">stories, little niches with ghostly c="trms">ontours (like a car's tire) ='lgc'>~ things growing in abundant='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>**bodies tumbled into bodies='strcls'>** (“="trms">monsters” ='lgc'><='lgc'>== assets and wastes (='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal entanglement with the burning man) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- bad ="trms">symbiosis)
='strcls'>* un="trms">spectacular afterlife of discarded things ='strcls'>* (debris of capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list waste)
="lsts lst1">•weaving magical figures, conjuring ="trms">fictions
="lsts lst1">•constant speculation, that are fed and touched, reparative and tender
="lsts lst1">•textured, formful, colorful
='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure='lgc'>: things that evoke or capture feelings and ="trms">responses ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure out ="trms">relational ="trms">responses

desire (super="trms">position)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> optics='lgc'>: (a form of distance) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds">Sina's ="trms">stories ='lgc'>~ super="trms">position ='lgc'>[="trms">different scales='lgc'>] of dispersed times ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ unruly temporalities='lgc'>], multiple practice of knowing smallbig spacetime ="trms">mattering='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>**="trms">positions tumbled into ="trms">positions='strcls'>** (tumbled into politics='lgc'>: some ="trms">instruments of seeing producing perspectives are more guilty than others)
='strcls'>* (dis="trms">embodied) multiple practices of knowing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> landscapes='lgc'>: arrangement of life and afterlife, space that grows from ‘endings’ ='lgc'><='lgc'>== ‘death of’(s) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~> contaminated (="trms">stories/diversities)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> diagram='lgc'>: http://="nms">ajayeb.net/='qstn'>?q=rationalizable
(="frds">Sina performing) diffractive optics of knowing ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ongoing ="trms">articulation ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= perspective='lgc'>]


="lsts lst1">•i shouldn't be talking, opening this
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="lsts lst1">•re="trms">membrance ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">Bambi's mother studies ='lgc'>{what if re="trms">membering is something totally ="trms">different than “lost ="trms">member"='lgc'>}
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="lsts lst1">•fox ="trms">story ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal ="trms">trap='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦perception ='lgc'>{="trms">rhetorical perception, evil perception, etc.='lgc'>}
="lsts lst2">◦="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure 🌀 can't stop following, ="trms">trap='lgc'>: nearby-ness, becoming bodily, engaged in perspectival game and will ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> fox's ="trms">relation to the forest ='lgc'>[he is suspicious and rend ='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lured into desiring ='and'>& trusting='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: we bring our ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures and needs towards each other, (sometimes it is) critique is an art that tangles with what you are proposing, like fox in a ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure (octopus is much better with ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures than fox)='lgc'>]
="lsts lst3">◾pro="trms">positions
="lsts lst3">◾abstractions ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (i ="trms">love) ideas='lgc'>: to animate humans, ="trms">erotic ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure for soul ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphic attention='strcls'>*
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="lsts lst1">•omen ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> potent sign of alarm
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="lsts lst1">•evil ='lgc'>{="trms">category crossing ="trms">monsters ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="nms">ajayeb's context of evil='lgc'>], force of liberation, beauty, complexity='lgc'>}
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="lsts lst1">•Ursula's sea (from little mermaid)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦the way she says “yes” ='lgc'>{multisensorial call “yes” and “more"='lgc'>}
="lsts lst2">◦her ="trms">laughter ='lgc'>{develish perception, perceptual ="trms">joke, joy of corrupting her morality ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ her heroism='lgc'>: who the hero is and how to live happily ever after='lgc'>]='lgc'>}
="lsts lst2">◦fish-="trms">story ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> aqua culture
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="lsts lst1">•Ursula ="ppl">La Guin ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Urashima ="trms">story
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="lsts lst1">•finish with evil ="trms">laughter


(follow the departure from ‘evil’ to ‘misunderstanding’ or ‘perspective’ in Disney's animated movies)


='lgc'>[="trms">according to ='strcls'>*creation ="trms">ancestral dreamings='strcls'>*(='lgc'>~ founding ="trms">ancestors):='lgc'>] shape-shifter (are not only haunted, but also are) creators of biotic life, founders of kin groups (of humans and ghosts)

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the wind (of...='qstn'>?) carries ghosts='lgc'>--signs of ="trms">past ways of life still charged in the ="trms">present ... ="trms">stories of those winds as they blow over haunted landscapes ... ghosts are the traces of more-than-human ="trms">histories through which ="trms">ecologies are made and unmade
='strcls'>*haunted ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">presence of ="trms">past
='strcls'>*landscapes ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> arrangement of living spaces
='strcls'>*ghosts ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> disturb us in their indeterminacy


="prgrph">-cracked cement
="prgrph">-="trms">worlds have ended many times before ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Jassem
="prgrph">-which ‘endings’ come with which ‘death of’='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•a leaf
="lsts lst1">•a city
="lsts lst1">•a friendship
="lsts lst1">•a small promise
="lsts lst1">•a small ="trms">story
="lsts lst1">•
='strcls'>***endings ='lgc'>==grow='lgc'>='lgc'>==> landscapes='strcls'>***


='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
shadow biology



="frds scrmbld">Jassem='lgc'>: make sami complicated

project's two ="trms">categories='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">nature ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">perverse
="lsts lst1">•culture ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> end="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered (='lgc'>--therefore='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> innocent, pure)

="prgrph">-homesick
="prgrph">-seasick
="prgrph">-sickened in home

چیقزستن

شخصیت توصیفی ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> descriptive='qstn'>? (drift in describing)
شخصیت حاشیه‌ای ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> digressive نامربوط  پرت, excursions superficial relevances, off the subject ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= انحرافی='lgc'>]
شخصیت خود محور ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> rotating along the axis of ego, tangled subjective schemas with objective reality, talking regardless of the ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listener ='lgc'>[egoist='lgc'>: vampire without self-reflection ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">narcissistic personality='lgc'>]
شخصیت مقایسه‌ای ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> comparing='qstn'>?
='lgc'>}='lgc'>=/= (always asking) how do you make a subject of conversation out of what you are concerned with ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> make ‘your subjects’ into ‘subjects of conversation’ with others ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> موضوع
="lsts lst1">•غیر قابل حل کردن ='lgc'>=/=
="lsts lst1">•تفکیک کردن
(مطرح کردن به صورت که تکه تکه کرد)


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]research='lgc'>: problem of entering a culture from outside


points of the ="trms">lecture='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-a nano-expose
="prgrph">-of kicking off this...
="prgrph">-not dramatically pitched at you
="prgrph">-cartography of collapse and ="trms">sublime
="prgrph">-coming down or crushing down the watching post
="prgrph">-(disclosures and) promises of frontier ="trms">technology
="prgrph">-


ghosts of the project='lgc'>:
/poltergeist ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> not really capable of knowing ="trms">different things and ="trms">different types of ="trms">relations they are entered into, bad at perspectival ="trms">communication
/Hamlet's father ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> wanting you to re="trms">member ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= revenge
/="nms">Cinderella ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> doesn't show any psychological ="trms">symptoms (she has no psychology='qstn'>?), she is not the master of anything, not even her name
/ruin ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> place of unsettled identities

="trms">questions of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•doom ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= adjustment, management='lgc'>]='lgc'>: “contamination='lgc'> = end”
="lsts lst1">•subject surging to bear an ="trms">affect, subject who goes with the flow in an intoxicated moment
="lsts lst1">•traumatic realism
="lsts lst1">•(end="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) survival='lgc'>: fighting for “your ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right against others”
="lsts lst1">•less-than ideal livable collaborations
="lsts lst1">•
="lsts lst1">•constructing ="trms">interest (not that ‘you want to know’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">historically ="trms">crafted and ="trms">naturalized modalities of “knowing more”)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">contingent (='lgc'>~ ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure, abstraction, fragile ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they create ="trms">interested bodies='lgc'>]) ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? analytical ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they create dis="trms">embodied subjects='lgc'>]

='lgc'>[="trms">poem can do all of these:='lgc'>]
/pro="trms">position ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right/wrong declaratives
/ex="trms">position ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">systematic explanation
/dis="trms">position ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">affective orientation ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~> attitude ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> perspectives ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> selves

="trms">poet ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= archivist='lgc'>] can be ="trms">responsible for the ‘remainders’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> good at ="trms">greeting ='lgc'>=/= traumatic realism


(1) traumatic realism
(real understood as traumatic='lgc'>:) “shock ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> subject”
a way of figuring that fails to bring the inflicting force (of real) into the ="trms">symbolic order ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">mime, miming='lgc'>: you bring it into the ="trms">present ="trms">literally over and over (re-="trms">present)
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(2) atmospheric attunement
a way of being in the noise
labor-intensive process that stretches across ="trms">imaginaries ='lgc'>[such as ="trms">travel, house, haunt='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">responding to ” “
actual ="trms">affects of modes of living brought into being
intimacy with a ="trms">world ='lgc'>[visiting families in Alta='lgc'>]
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(3) phantom arm
“="trms">social='lgc'> = ="trms">present-absent” (='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">="ppl">Star Trek's ="trms">interculturalism) (='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Lacan's subject='lgc'>: proper sense of absence and loss)
connectivity does not require physical contiguity
="prgrph">-force of piled-up phantom limps
="prgrph">-hum of the palce, dormant noise ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">worlding of a place ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="trms">material and sensory labor of attending to it='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-hauntology ='lgc'>=/= Archimedean certainty of ="trms">presence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a knowing consciousnes
="prgrph">-so, that lost arm/limb (o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal part of you) could have a chance of becoming companion ="trms">species, and not a discarded ="nms">phantom limb forever haunting the amputated you
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(4) troubled ="trms">stories
='lgc'>=/= clear-cut good ="trms">stories about troubles
="trms">stories difficult to like='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•dirty, guilty, surviva="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list udyr='qstn'>? the evil horse='qstn'>? (we need more description of the evil horse)
="nms">Cinderella ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (not) the master of your house, of your name, of you
="prgrph">-sometimes it is not you who makes you


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='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Morris='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ghost problem ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> possbility of a politcal form
="trms">contingent politicization and the accidental in the Southeast Asia

theatrical acts of civil disobedience
democracy protestors
conjure the spirits of those who have been killed
political vengeance

(wherever there is) violence in Southeast Asia (even if this violence is merely the
force that possesses machinery) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ghosts
='lgc'>='lgc'>~=
(wherever there is) force that would oppose life (even and perhaps especially by resembling it) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ghosts

='lgc'>[the doxa of='lgc'>] ='lgc'>{(no preparation) premature death / banished by disbelief ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> unhappy ghost, vin="trms">dictive melancholy='lgc'>}='lgc'>[= ='strcls'>*effect of context='strcls'>*='lgc'>]='lgc'>--in='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•pulp novels
="lsts lst1">•secular humanist elite ="trms">literature
="lsts lst1">•="trms">rumor
="lsts lst1">•folklore
="lsts lst1">•

(="ppl">="ppl">Morris points that) such specters are ="trms">densest in the places where the accidents of ="trms">modernity are most like to occur

='strcls'>*the death that is caused by another death='strcls'>*

="trms">technologization of life and death, movement and war ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*making one vulnerable to death='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>== (often) a function of ="trms">technology (="trms">technologization of life and death, movement and war, etc.)

='strcls'>*ghostliness (in Southeast Asia)='lgc'>: an idiom with which to address issues about the difficult delineation of a boundary between the living and the dead='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=/= ="trms">matter of improper burial)

if the dead cannot join the living, the living can die and thereby mingle with the al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready deceased ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> f="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right

the location (where ghostliness arises) is not spatial but temporal (“something happened”)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in a strange way, for the “occurrence” has no place in time ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> stop time and to displace other ="trms">narratives (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> it has the structure of trace)
='lgc'>[='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Marialena's summoning to life ='lgc'>=/= (living) beings who can be summoned to death='lgc'>]
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">Freud's) death drive (='lgc'><='lgc'>== traumatic ="trms">neuroses) ='lgc'>+ (="ppl">Kantian conception of)
accident


(for ="ppl">Freud='lgc'>:) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]consciousness='lgc'>: the form of a resistance to the ="trms">world

unconscious is “timeless” ='lgc'>: incapable of discerning order (in a ="ppl">Kantian sense)

trauma (='lgc'>=/= ="trms">anxiety) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> disables the pleasure principle but not the compulsion to repeat (which is typically a source of pleasure)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]trauma as precisely such a dist="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbance of time and of ="trms">causal sequentiality

='lgc'>{earlier philosopher's analogy='lgc'>: substance (essentially unchanging) ='lgc'>=/= accident (the name of that which ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphoses over time) ='lgc'>}='lgc'>=/=='lgc'>{ ="ppl">Kant's analogy='lgc'>: accidents='lgc'> = the “particular ways” in which substance is determined to exist='lgc'>}
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Morris='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">causality='lgc'>: a concept that ="trms">responds to and covers over a gap in the human capacity to inhabit a ="trms">world of accident
='lgc'>--="ppl">Freud='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sudden, unexpected event incapa="trms">citates the psyche (and its maturation) to such an extent that it will relate to the ="trms">world only as accidentally existing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]accident/trauma='lgc'>: the experience of the occurrence as having no reason ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--="trms">causality as a principle of understanding='lgc'>]

accident ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=&='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•trauma
="lsts lst1">•condition of possibility of a political opening to the future (one whose form is not determined a ="trms">priori)
="lsts lst1">•condition of possibility of en ethical opening to the future (without guarantee)
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Morris='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*accident='lgc'>: the name of a certain kind of freedom='strcls'>*

(it is initially tempting to sug="trms">gest='lgc'>:) ghosts='lgc'>: ="trms">symptoms of trauma, particular form of a repetition compulsion, externalized and made public, (untimeliness of an event that robs it of the structure of ="trms">causality within which it could be more properly ="trms">interpreted), a form of ="trms">neurosis ='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">="ppl">Morris's ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading of Southeast Asia ghosts

="lsts lst1">•recognition does not stave off fear
="lsts lst1">•="trms">anxiety does not stave off trauma

reflective ="trms">interpretation
="trms">narrativized ="trms">interpretation
abstract ="trms">interpretation

dis="trms">sociation (in spirit possession) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (allows other individuals to witness) the loss of consciousness ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">memory traces of ="trms">history become legible

(change the focus in trauma studies, a reorientation of perspective='lgc'>:)
missed encounter (='lgc'>~ wound) ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> poorly anticipated encounter (='lgc'>~ accident)

(Caruth's argument='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>**='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]trauma='lgc'>: a discourse that opens up ethical possibilities with its ="trms">demand for a recognition of the need for ="trms">historicization (of the ="trms">relationship between destruction and survival)='strcls'>**

='strcls'>****(="ppl">="ppl">Morris as an ="trms">anthropologist call for analysis of the accidental ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) to better comprehend ='strcls'>*how ="trms">history exceeds individual intentions='strcls'>* ='lgc'>+ how particular conceptions of ="trms">history may enable more consequential action on the part of ="trms">historical ="trms">agents='strcls'>****
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (to move from) ="trms">affective ="trms">symptoms of an overwhelming experience ='lgc'>[='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda='lgc'>] ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">question of effectivity beyond re="trms">presentation
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to construe an ethical ="trms">relation to ="trms">history='lgc'>--in terms of open ="trms">relation to futurity ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= an (impossible) mastery of the ="trms">past='lgc'>]

every artist rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer should investigate='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•how ="trms">anxiety is informing you
="lsts lst1">•how trauma is informing you

the ="trms">question of the political understood as='lgc'>: (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Femke, OSP)
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">question of ="trms">contingent factors
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">question of unexpected exposures
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">question of (relatively) unconscious processes
(and not of control)

neoliberal economic logics ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> image of massness (='lgc'>=/= consciousness of one's collective ="trms">interests) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> condition the possibility of ="trms">social action (movements characterized by a schema in which exposure to events leads to politicization) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- an older genre of politicization ="trms">narrative ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ individuals describe their encounter with ="trms">social injustice, extreme poverty, or ="trms">excessive violence and then recount a growing consciousness of the structures that produced them, ='at'>#="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Robin,Robot,Robert,Robocop">Robin Hood='lgc'>]

inadvertent and even accidental convergences ='lgc'>==='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>==> political movements in Southeast Asia (throughout the late 1980s and 1990s) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (students who participated in antigovernment protests in Rangoon/Yangon in the late 1980) described their entry into the political sphere (less exposed to the object of ="trms">social injustice, not in terms of an o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginally shared project, not a shared analysis, but rather) as the result of a ="trms">situational convergence (from which an ideological project had yet to be fabricated)

(to understand) your ="trms">relationship to the political as ='strcls'>*subjection to force='strcls'>* (and hence) ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> ='strcls'>*the violation of subjectivity='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=/= acceding to a fuller subjectivity)

they were just there (summoned to events the ="trms">nature of which they did not know in advance) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*ephemeral mobilization='strcls'>*='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•by anonymous calls (precipitated objectless gatherings by cell phone messaging, an anonymous call of an ideologically vacant ="trms">sort)
="lsts lst1">•ephemeral ="trms">rumors
="lsts lst1">•without ideological commitment
="lsts lst1">•by curiosity (gathered only to find out why others were gathered)
="lsts lst1">•attraction to ="trms">spectacle
="lsts lst1">•to ="trms">consume, pornographically, the ="trms">visceral images of police and military violence
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>the idea of participation loses its meaning

formation of a crowd
="trms">materialization of the state's force

ephemeral mobilization (which later sets the ="trms">stage for politicization) is a familiar ="trms">instrument of power

the group='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•(has a) monopoly on violence
="lsts lst1">•manifestation of a will to democracy (='thdf'>for example the way ="nms">Iranian movements were ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read by ="trms">international bodies)

a="trms">historicism of conspiratorial orientation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “powerful but secret ="trms">instrumentalities ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> temporary formations” ='lgc'>--misses='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the transformations of ="trms">social consciousness and political possibility

(to open to the thought of a ="trms">world beyond you)

="large lg14" stl="font-size:120%"> ="trms">narratives of accidental politicization (='lgc'>~ movements emerging from crowds without ever becoming masses or classes)
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> from the state
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> from the transnational media ='lgc'>+ whose circuits the images of these convergences ="trms">travel
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an experience of immediacy (as the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of politics ='lgc'>=/= encounter with re="trms">presentations of the ="trms">world), sudden activation of an immediate ="trms">presence in the public sphere ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> political conceived as itself being ="trms">contingent

to resignify and reorient the problem of the political in terms of civilizational ="trms">difference (rather than ideological, and hence economic, ="trms">difference)


the so-called nocturnal sudden death syndrome

rapacious female specter
in the fear of being killed by this nearly limitless desire for female dead, men (Thai constructor workers in Singapore) started to paint their nails, attired themselves as women before going to sleep
='lgc'>[seek to accomplish in advance what is feared, emasculation='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**="trms">mimesis of a crisis foretold='strcls'>**

(khwan)
a th="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read of unspun cotton tied about the wrist ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> prevent the dissipation of one's vital essence

(mostly men's) satisfaction of commodity desire ='lgc'>--entails='lgc'>='lgc'>--> absence from home

woman's work in ="trms">technology and textile manufacturing and in the tourism sector (whether as service worker or prostitute) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> is deemed lamentable, even contemptible, but still tolerable

="trms">anxiety over lost male potency ='lgc'>==='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>==> widow ghost

the queen had a dream (that all the men in Thailand had vanished)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">anxiety expressed as ='strcls'>*extreme anticipation='strcls'>* (and not as an op="trms">position to the feared object)
="prgrph">-the ="trms">phenomena ="trms">materializes what they seek to differ and ="trms">mime (the force thday the want to stave off)

collective spirit possession

periods of commodification ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> waves of witch="trms">craft (="trms">traversed Thailand in 1905)

="lsts lst1">•episodes of disruption
="lsts lst1">•="trms">social crisis
="lsts lst1">•economic transformation
="lsts lst1">•attended reordering of ="trms">social ="trms">relations (in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding those of class and gender)
="lsts lst1">•

(khwan) rite='lgc'>: a try to evade loss by soliciting misrecognition (on the part of the ghost), but they cannot cover over the fact of an al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready existent loss

working as a repetition compulsion ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the widow ghost (بختک bakhtak='qstn'>?) as an ='thdf'>example of death drive
(waking up nightly having felt themselves robbed of breath and speech)
='lgc'>--Mills='lgc'>+="ppl">="ppl">Morris='lgc'>='lgc'>--> capital (not war) as the source of this trauma

trauma that arises in war ='lgc'>='lgc'>~/= injury that is the function of insertion into new and painful economic structures

mastering the wounds produced by capital, depend on='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•not the production of cathartic discharge through aberration or ="trms">historisization through ="trms">narrative
="lsts lst1">•on some kind of ="trms">socialization or collectivization through which the source of injury can be addressed

(تقدم anteriority ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">causality عليت)

='strcls'>*discernment of cause is precisely the domain of political analysis='strcls'>*
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in a ="trms">history that is experienced as the space of ="trms">contingency, or accident, ="trms">symptoms are likely to be recognized as cause (='lgc'><='lgc'>== the order of anteriority is no longer distinguished from ="trms">causality)
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older patriarchal orders might reassert their values

young people being possessed by crowds and then escaping that possession ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the labor to discern other possibilities in ="trms">relation to the accidental...


accidental encounter as the basis of politicization ='lgc'>--reiterates-transforms='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">narrative of ghostly encounters ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=reveals='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*a fundamental but ultimately inexplicable antithesis exists='strcls'>* (between the way things exists and the possibility that they might be otherwise)

the “accident” makes visible the ="trms">contingencies of everyday existence

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]ghost='lgc'>: ="trms">materialization of the spectral possibility of being absolutely otherwise (we give it a name “death” or “="trms">fiction”) and negates it by assuming a ="trms">material form

...the ethical impulse constantly='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•risks disappearing into a mere chance affair
="lsts lst1">•risks disappearing in a rule

(="ppl">="ppl">Morris ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) spirit possession ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*an individual learns to contain the effects of lost consciousness='strcls'>* (hence a certain kind of death)='lgc'>--by regularizing it and by surrendering her to his body to a voice that comes from without, almost always in the form of a commandment
='strcls'>*a mode of absolute comformity='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--expresses='lgc'>='lgc'>--> desire ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">interest ='lgc'>[="ppl">Marx diagnosis='lgc'>: (how) the ‘="trms">interest’ of power appears as the ‘desire’ of the ones who are disenfranchised='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> simulacrum of a dialogue, reciprocal ="trms">sociality in a theater where the spirits ="trms">respond to the ="trms">questions of mortals
='lgc'>[crowds split between a desire to be in the place of power and an ="trms">interest in its overthrowing='lgc'>]

the medium='lgc'>: always one called to her task, one who cannot refuse the ="trms">demands made on her by a ghostly power. in her, power becomes visible.
="prgrph">-and is personal (in form of commandment='lgc'>--and not rule of law)
="prgrph">-the medium, in submitting, keeps alive ='strcls'>*a ="trms">memory of power before the bureaucratization of state='strcls'>*

="large lg10" stl="font-size:119%"> young inmates entering into insurgent movement largely on the basis of contacts with older ideologues (with whom they had contact solely because they were incarcerated in spaces reserved for political prisoners

consciousness as reason ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> double sense of being unmoored from explanatory and thus ="trms">causal lo[...]