[...]ock ='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

="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> (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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:127%"> ='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)

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> (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)

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

="large lg5" stl="font-size:112%"> ephemeral mobilization (which later sets the ="trms">stage for politicization) is a familiar ="trms">instrument of power

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