[...]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

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

(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

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 lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> 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 insertion into new and painful economic structures

mastering the wounds produced by capital, depend on='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•not the production of cathartic discharge through aberration or ="trms">historisization through ="trms">narrative
="lsts lst1">•on some kind of ="trms">socialization or collectivization through which the source of injury can be addressed

(تقدم anteriority ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">causality عليت)

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> ='strcls'>*discernment of cause is precisely the domain of political analysis='strcls'>*
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in a ="trms">history that is experienced as the space of ="trms">contingency, or accident, ="trms">symptoms are likely to be recognized as cause (='lgc'><='lgc'>== the order of anteriority is no longer distinguished from ="trms">causality)
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older patriarchal orders might reassert their values

young people being possessed by crowds and then escaping that possession ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the labor to discern other possibilities in ="trms">relation to the accidental...


accidental encounter as the basis of politicization ='lgc'>--reiterates-transforms='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">narrative of ghostly encounters ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=reveals='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*a fundamental but ultimately inexplicable antithesis exists='strcls'>* (between the way things exists and the possibility that they might be otherwise)

the “accident” makes visible the ="trms">contingencies of everyday existence

="large lg5" stl="font-size:166%"> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]ghost='lgc'>: ="trms">materialization of the spectral possibility of being absolutely otherwise (we give it a name “death” or “="trms">fiction”) and negates it by assuming a ="trms">material form

...the ethical impulse constantly='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•risks disappearing into a mere chance affair
="lsts lst1">•risks disappearing in a rule

(="ppl">="ppl">Morris ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) spirit possession ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*an individual learns to contain the effects of lost consciousness='strcls'>* (hence a certain kind of death)='lgc'>--by regularizing it and by surrendering her to his body to a voice that comes from without, almost always in the form of a commandment
='strcls'>*a mode of absolute comformity='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--expresses='lgc'>='lgc'>--> desire ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">interest ='lgc'>[="ppl">Marx diagnosis='lgc'>: (how) the ‘="trms">interest’ of power appears as the ‘desire’ of the ones who are disenfranchised='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> simulacrum of a dialogue, reciprocal ="trms">sociality in a theater where the spirits ="trms">respond to the ="trms">questions of mortals
='lgc'>[crowds split between a desire to be in the place of power and an ="trms">interest in its overthrowing='lgc'>]

the medium='lgc'>: always one called to her task, one who cannot refuse the ="trms">demands made on her by a ghostly power. in her, power becomes visible.
="prgrph">-and is personal (in form of commandment='lgc'>--and not rule of law)
="prgrph">-the medium, in submitting, keeps alive ='strcls'>*a ="trms">memory of power before the bureaucratization of state='strcls'>*

young inmates entering into insurgent movement largely on the basis of contacts with older ideologues (with whom they had contact solely because they were incarcerated in spaces reserved for [...]