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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 clss="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%">
(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
lrg>
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

<lrg clss="large lg1" stl="font-size:143%"> 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
lrg>
(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

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

<lrg clss="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> 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>

the so-called nocturnal sudden death syndrome

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>

<lrg clss="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%"> (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
lrg>
(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 lg5" stl="font-size:152%"> collective spirit possession
lrg>
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 solsts>[...]