[...]our 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


="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> 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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='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

="large lg6" stl="font-size:116%"> ="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="trms">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'>*


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='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 ...

="large lg14" stl="font-size:101%"> ='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'>]

="large lg6" stl="font-size:106%"> 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 (="trms">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'>--> ="trms">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

="large lg6" stl="font-size:108%"> 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)

="large lg10" stl="font-size:135%">
='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

="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> 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)

="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> 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
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