[...]ts<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>

<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

<lrg clss="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%">
lrg>lbrkr stl="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................lbrkr>lrg>

<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>
(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 clss="large lg1" stl="font-size:124%"> ls clss='strcls'>*ls>the death that is caused by another deathls clss='strcls'>*ls>
lrg>
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


(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

<lrg clss="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•recognition does not stave off fear
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">anxiety does not stave off trauma
lsts>lrg>
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)

<lrg clss="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%"> (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>
lrg>
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>

<lrg clss="large lg5" stl="font-size:139%"> 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)
lrg>
(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 wlsts>[...]