[...]es
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>ghosts <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> disturb us in their indeterminacy


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


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

<lrg clss="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%">
lrg>
lss="frds scrmbld">Jassem<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> make sami complicated

project's two lss="trms">categories<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">nature <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">perverse
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•culture <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> endlss="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered (<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>thereforelss='qstn'>?<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> innocent, pure)
lsts>
lss="prgrph">-homesick
lss="prgrph">-seasick
lss="prgrph">-sickened in home

چیقزستن

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

<lrg clss="large lg10" stl="font-size:135%">
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>research<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> problem of entering a culture from outside


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


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

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

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


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


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<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Morrisl>l><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> ghost problem <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lss='not'>✕<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> possbility of a politcal form
lss="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 clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> ghosts
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>ld>~ld>lgc>=lgc>
(wherever there is) force that would oppose life (even and perhaps especially by resembling it) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> ghosts

<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>the doxa of<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>(no preparation) premature death / banished by disbelief <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> unhappy ghost, vinlss="trms">dictive melancholy<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>= ls clss='strcls'>*ls>effect of contextls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>in<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•pulp novels
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•secular humanist elite lss="trms">literature
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">rumor
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•folklore
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•
lsts>
<lrg clss="large lg1" stl="font-size:135%"> (l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Morrisl>l> points that) such specters are lss="trms">densest in the places where the accidents of lss="trms">modernity are most like to occur
lrg>
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>the death that is caused by another deathls clss='strcls'>*ls>

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

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

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

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

lrg>
(for l clss="ppl">Freudl><lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>) <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>consciousness<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> the form of a resistance to the lss="trms">world

unconscious is “timeless” <lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> incapable of discerning order (in a l clss="ppl">Kantl>ian sense)

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

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

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

(it is initially tempting to suglss="trms">gest<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>) ghosts<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> lss="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 lss="trms">causality within which it could be more properly lss="trms">interpreted), a form of lss="trms">neurosis <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Morrisl>l>'s lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading of Southeast Asia ghosts

<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•recognition does not stave off fear
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">anxiety does not stave off trauma
lsts>
reflective lss="trms">interpretation
lss="trms">narrativized lss="trms">interpretation
abstract lss="trms">interpretation

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

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

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

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

every artist reselss="trms"nttrm="search">archer should investigate<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•how lss="trms">anxiety is informing you
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•how trauma is informing you
lsts>
the lss="trms">question of the political understood as<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> (lss='at'>@lss="frds scrmbld">Femke, OSP)
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•the lss="trms">question of lss="trms">contingent factors
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•the lss="trms">question of unexpected exposures
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•the lss="trms">question of (relatively) unconscious processes
lsts> (and not of control)

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

inadvertent and even accidental convergences <lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>lss='qstn'>?<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> political movements in Southeast Asia (throughout the late 1980s and 1990s) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--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 lss="trms">social injustice, not in terms of an olss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginally shared project, not a shared analysis, but rather) as the result of a lss="trms">situational convergence (from which an ideological project had yet to be fabricated)

(to understand) your lss="trms">relationship to the political as ls clss='strcls'>*ls>subjection to forcels clss='strcls'>*ls> (and hence) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>ld>~ld>lgc>=lgc>>lgc> ls clss='strcls'>*ls>the violation of subjectivityls clss='strcls'>*ls> (<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> acceding to a fuller subjectivity)

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

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

the group<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•(has a) monopoly on violence
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•manifestation of a will to democracy (lss='thdf'>for example the way lss="nms">Iranian movements were lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read by lss="trms">international bodies)
lsts>
alss="trms">historicism of conspiratorial orientation <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> “powerful but secret lss="trms">instrumentalities <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> temporary formations” <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>misses<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> the transformations of lss="trms">social consciousness and political possibility

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

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

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


<lrg clss="large lg10" stl="font-size:105%"> the so-called nocturnal sudden death syndrome
lrg>
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 clss='lgc'>[lgc>seek to accomplish in advance what is feared, emasculation<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> ls clss='strcls'>**ls>lss="trms">mimesis of a crisis foretoldls clss='strcls'>**ls>

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

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

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

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

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

<lrg clss="large lg6" stl="font-size:115%"> collective spirit possession

periods of commodification <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> waves of witchlss="trms">craft (lss="trms">traversed Thailand in 1905)

<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•episodes of disruption
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">social crisis
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•economic transformation
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•attended reordering of lss="trms">social lss="trms">relations (inlss="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding those of class and gender)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•
lsts>
(khwan) rite<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> a try to evade loss by soliciting misrecognition (on the part of the ghost), but they cannot cover over the fact of an allss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready existent loss

<lrg clss="large lg6" stl="font-size:131%"> working as a repetition compulsion <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> the widow ghost (بختک bakhtaklss='qstn'>?) as an lss='thdf'>example of death drive
(waking up nightly having felt themselves robbed of breath and speech)
<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>Mills<lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc>l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Morrisl>l><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> capital (not war) as the source of this trauma

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

mastering the wounds produced by capital, depend on<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•not the production of cathartic discharge through aberration or lss="trms">historisization through lss="trms">narrative
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•on some kind of lss="trms">socialization or collectivization through which the source of injury can be addressed
lsts>
(تقدم anteriority <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> lss="trms">causality عليت)
lrg>
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>discernment of cause is precisely the domain of political analysisls clss='strcls'>*ls>
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in a lss="trms">history that is experienced as the space of lss="trms">contingency, or accident, lss="trms">symptoms are likely to be recognized as cause (<lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>lgc> the order of anteriority is no longer distinguished from lss="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 clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> the labor to discern other possibilities in lss="trms">relation to the accidental...


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

the “accident” makes visible the lss="trms">contingencies of everyday existence
lrg>
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>ghost<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> lss="trms">materialization of the spectral possibility of being absolutely otherwise (we give it a name “death” or “lss="trms">fiction”) and negates it by assuming a lss="trms">material form

<lrg clss="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> ...the ethical impulse constantly<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•risks disappearing into a mere chance affair
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•risks disappearing in a rule
lsts>lrg>
(l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Morrisl>l> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc>) spirit possession <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> ls clss='strcls'>*ls>an individual learns to contain the effects of lost consciousnessls clss='strcls'>*ls> (hence a certain kind of death)<lgc clss='lgc'>--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
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>a mode of absolute comformityls clss='strcls'>*ls> <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>expresses<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> desire <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> lss="trms">interest <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>l clss="ppl">Marxl> diagnosis<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> (how) the ‘lss="trms">interest’ of power appears as the ‘desire’ of the ones who are disenfranchised<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> simulacrum of a dialogue, reciprocal lss="trms">sociality in a theater where the spirits lss="trms">respond to the lss="trms">questions of mortals
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>crowds split between a desire to be in the place of power and an lss="trms">interest in its overthrowing<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>

the medium<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> always one called to her task, one who cannot refuse the lss="trms">demands made on h[...]