[...]oup='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

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

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)

='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 lg1" stl="font-size:146%"> ='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 political prisoners

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

bearers of popular political ="trms">agency

mediatized neoliberalizing ="trms">world

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

spirit mediums dressing themselves in the costumes of ancient priests

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

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

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%">
(rethinking the conditions of) posibility for political organization (and political forms)

="prgrph">-(let's not) programmatic politics ='lgc'>--reverting='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to a parodic reinstantiation of older oligarchic forms
="prgrph">-(let's not) reduction of accidental to trauma ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= incapacity to speak='lgc'>]

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

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> the crowd lends people an ="trms">instrument by which they can become audible (to the extend that they lose their own particular voice) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= the medium lends a body to the spirit who can speaks in a voice from elsewhere

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]crowd='lgc'>: a mode of the (political) ="trms">sublime ='lgc'>: one dies as a subject to be recognized as a citizen(= one who has a voice)

='strcls'>*sorcery='lgc'>: the ="trms">translation of one fact into the form of another='strcls'>*

an antecedent rendered as cause

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

="large lg5" stl="font-size:162%"> (sustainable forms of) ="trms">social good and distributive justice

ghosts ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= signs of reason's fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure
="lsts lst1">•fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure ='lgc'>=/= absence of rational faculties
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]reason='lgc'>: that which arises to transcend a kind of being that would live only in the mode of the accidental

="ppl">="ppl">Morris's ‘giving up ghosts’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***an acknowledgment of the accidental ground on which reason enacts the enabling violence of its regulative ideals='strcls'>***
="prgrph">-='strcls'>*enabling violence='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--='lgc'>{trauma ='lgc'>=/= accident='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> accidental events (such as the convergence of a crowd in a street in Bangkok) can precisely be rendered as the “ground” of ="trms">socially transformative politics and institutional ="trms">interventions (without o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal motivations)

(='qstn'>?what is at stake in elaborating the ="trms">relationship between ='lgc'>[Derr[...]