[...]hy others were gathered)
<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)

<lrg clss="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> 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

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>

(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

(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

<lrg clss="large lg1" stl="font-size:145%"> lss="trms">anxiety over lost male potency <lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>lss='qstn'>?<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> widow ghost
lrg>
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)

collective spirit possession

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 lss="trms">social lss="trms">relations (inlss="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding those of class and gender)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•
lsts>
(khwan) rite<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> a try to evade loss by soliciting misrecognition (on the part of the ghost), but they cannot cover over the fact of an allss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready existent loss

working as a repetition compulsion <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> the widow ghost (بختک bakhtaklss='qstn'>?) as an lss='thdf'>example of death drive
(waking up nightly having felt themselves robbed of breath and speech)
<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>Mills<lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc>l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Morrisl>l><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> capital (not war) as the source of this trauma

trauma that arises in war <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc>/=lgc> injury that is the function of insertion into new and painful economic structures

mastering the wounds produced by capital, depend on<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•not the production of cathartic discharge through aberration or lss="trms">historisization through lss="trms">narrative
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•on some kind of lss="trms">socialization or collectivization through which the source of injury can be addressed
lsts>
(تقدم anteriority <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> lss="trms">causality عليت)

ls clss='strcls'>*ls>discernment of cause is precisely the domain of political analysisls clss='strcls'>*ls>
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in a lss="trms">history that is experienced as the space of lss="trms">contingency, or accident, lss="trms">symptoms are likely to be recognized as cause (<lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>lgc> the order of anteriority is no longer distinguished from lss="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 clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> the labor to discern other possibilities in lss="trms">relation to the accidental...


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

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

<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>ghost<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> lss="trms">materialization of the spectral possibility of being absolutely otherwise (we give it a name “death” or “lss="trms">fiction”) and negates it by assuming a lss="trms">material form

...the ethical impulse constantly<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•risks disappearing into a mere chance affair
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•risks disappearing in a rule
lsts>
(l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Morrisl>l> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc>) spirit possession <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> ls clss='strcls'>*ls>an individual learns to contain the effects of lost consciousnessls clss='strcls'>*ls> (hence a certain kind of death)<lgc clss='lgc'>--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
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>a mode of absolute comformityls clss='strcls'>*ls> <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>expresses<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> desire <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> lss="trms">interest <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>l clss="ppl">Marxl> diagnosis<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> (how) the ‘lss="trms">interest’ of power appears as the ‘desire’ of the ones who are disenfranchised<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> simulacrum of a dialogue, reciprocal lss="trms">sociality in a theater where the spirits lss="trms">respond to the lss="trms">questions of mortals
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>crowds split between a desire to be in the place of power and an lss="trms">interest in its overthrowing<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>

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

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 political prisoners

consciousness as reason <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> double sense of being unmoored from explanatory and thus lss="trms">causal logics rooted in lss='thdf'>the idea of lss="trms">interest and expressed as a faith in the liberatory capacity of knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge

bearers of popular political lss="trms">agency

mediatized neoliberalizing lss="trms">world

(identification with middle classness <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>its universal lss="trms">interests<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc>) aspiring to classlessness

spirit mediums dressing themselves in the costumes of ancient priests

inadvertent and accidental politicization <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>ld>~ld>lgc>=lgc>>lgc> an awkward form <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> opening to the liberation of the political from lss="trms">historical determination and its various teleologies

the fall of Soviet lss="trms">socialism <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•disorientation of structures within which oplss="trms">position to the injustices of the capitalism could be lss="trms">articulated
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•more ethical conception of democracy
lsts>

<lrg clss="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> (rethinking the conditions of) posibility for political organization (and political forms)
lrg>
lss="prgrph">-(let's not) programmatic politics <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>reverting<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> to a parodic reinstantiation of older oligarchic forms
lss="prgrph">-(let's not) reduction of accidental to trauma <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>ld>~ld>lgc>=lgc> incapacity to speak<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>

crowd<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> a context in which one can become subject to powers that exceed one <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> for which spirit possession offers a normative form

the crowd lends people an lss="trms">instrument by which they can become audible (to the extend that they lose their own particular voice) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>ld>~ld>lgc>=lgc> the medium lends a body to the spirit who can speaks in a voice from elsewhere

<lrg clss="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>crowd<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> a mode of the (political) lss="trms">sublime <lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> one dies as a subject to be recognized as a citizen(= one who has a voice)
lrg>
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>sorcery<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> the lss="trms">translation of one fact into the form of anotherls clss='strcls'>*ls>

an antecedent rendered as cause

when we say something needs retrospection, it means lss="trms">narration (that allows the accidental to appear as that which will recur, not an lss="trms">anxious anticipation, but ls clss='strcls'>*ls>a resolute commitment to an ethics of the event) <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> retrospection structured only by the lss="trms">question of olss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> an approach to ls clss='strcls'>*ls>curing traumals clss='strcls'>*ls>)

(sustainable forms of) lss="trms">social good and distributive justice

<lrg clss="large lg5" stl="font-size:151%"> ghosts <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>ld>~ld>lgc>=lgc> signs of reason's failss="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•failss="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> absence of rational faculties
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>reason<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> that which arises to transcend a kind of being that would live only in the mode of the accidental
lsts>lrg>
l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Morrisl>l>'s ‘giving up ghosts’ <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> ls clss='strcls'>***ls>an acknowledgment of the accidenta[...]