[...]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

="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> 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 lg1" stl="font-size:131%"> 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'>]

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> 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)

="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%"> (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)

="large lg5" stl="font-size:148%"> 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)

="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 p[...]