[...]s 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'>]

="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> 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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:124%"> (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'>]

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)

(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)

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 politics ='lgc'>=/= encounter with re="trms">presentations of the ="trms">world), sudden activation of an immediate ="trms">presence in the public sphere ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> political conceived as itself being ="trms">contingent

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


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'>[seek to accomplish in advance what is feared, emasculation='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**="trms">mimesis of a crisis foretold='strcls'>**

="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> (khwan)
a th="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read of unspun cotton tied about the wrist ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> prevent the dissipation of one's vital essence

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

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

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

="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> the queen had a dream (that all the men in Thailand had vanished)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">anxiety expressed as ='strcls'>*extreme anticipation='strcls'>* (and not as an op="trms">position to the feared object)
="prgrph">-the ="trms">phenomena ="trms">materializes what they seek to differ and ="trms">mime (the force thday the want to stave off)

collective spirit possession

periods of commodification ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> waves of witch="trms">craft (="trms">traversed Thailand in 1905)

="lsts lst1">•episodes of disruption
="lsts lst1">•="trms">social crisis
="lsts lst1">•economic transformation
="lsts lst1">•attended reordering of ="trms">social ="trms">relations (in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding those of class and gender)
="lsts lst1">•

(khwan) rite='lgc'>: a try to evade loss by soliciting misrecognition (on the part of the ghost), but they cannot cover over the fact of an al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready existent loss

="large lg5" stl="font-size:148%"> working as a repetition compulsion ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the widow ghost (بختک bakhtak='qstn'>?) as an ='thdf'>example of death drive
(waking up nightly having felt themselves robbed of breath and speech)
='lgc'>--Mills='lgc'>+="ppl">="ppl">Morris='lgc'>='lgc'>--> capital (not war) as the source of this trauma

trauma that arises in war ='lgc'>='lgc'>~/= injury that is the function of inse[...]