[...]all (mainly romanized) ="trms">languages and is the ideal condition of possibility of recognition from within its constitutional order

mimic the address of someone wit charisma (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">authority)


="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> (="ppl">="ppl">Morris on) mediaticity of speech (and not merely of media ="trms">technologies)

="ppl">="ppl">Morris ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading of a s="trms">cene (of quotidian exchange) in HIV/AIDS NGO office='lgc'>: a metonym and a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor for a kind of South African public sphere that aspires to in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusiveness but is terrorized by its incapacity to know what that opens it up to
="lsts lst1">•arms itself against potentially aggressive others
="lsts lst1">•="trms">narratives of violence work ='strcls'>*to reinforce the sense of necessity='strcls'>* (for a general securitization)
="lsts lst1">•work in the mode of a ='strcls'>**negative meritocracy='strcls'>** (= those who would violate the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights of others are to be ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded, but no others ='lgc'>--but='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how to know in advance who has perpetrated or intends to perpetrate such a violation='qstn'>?)

...in the shadow of ="trms">communicational ="trms">technology's ="trms">fashion industry
...bountiful banality of the ="trms">technologies and artifacts of mass reproducibility

='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> lithography ='lgc'>--(superseded by)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> photography ='lgc'>--(gives way to)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cinema ='lgc'>--(transformed by)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sound ="trms">technology ='lgc'>--(displaced by)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">integrated and multiplatform digital media ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]
(teleological fantasy='lgc'>:) ="trms">ontologized in epochal schema (these sequences become something more and ="trms">different) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> analog media are said to be displaced by digital media ='lgc'>==> logic of re="trms">presentation gives way to that of information
='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">="ppl">Morris ="trms">questioning) the conflation of media with mediation, which is itself ="trms">symptomatic of both a ="trms">technological determinism and an effort to ="trms">ontologize ="trms">technology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a crises of mediation (not media)='lgc'>: the ="trms">communicative aspiration and the presumptive unity of medium and message in ="trms">language are brought to their limit (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> media ="trms">technologies play a role in this drama, but they do not explain it. ='at'>@OSP ='and'>& ="frds scrmbld">Femke)

="prgrph">-women's understanding of improper English of Zuma's speech='lgc'>: a ="trms">communicational fail that (from their perspective) is as="trms">sociated with illegality, corruption, and violence

(not to embrace) the kind of logocentric ="trms">historiography that ="trms">imagines ="trms">literacy to constitute a secondary mediation of a primal and auto="trms">affective orality

witches='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*="trms">technicians of a speech='strcls'>* in which the identity between word and ="trms">world reaches its maximal extent, when the mere utterance of a spell (even when that utterance is non="trms">verbal) is thought to cause things to happen

zamazama's ="trms">literacy='lgc'>: the means for ="trms">communication across ="trms">difference ='lgc'>==> the mastery of mediation and thus its effacement (='lgc'>=/= signify the secondary mediation of a primary orality)

...a ="trms">society that is being reconstituted around a commitment to constitutional multi="trms">lingualism and democratic proceduralism

rituals of governmentality
delay and deferral

fantasy of immediacy ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•messianic movements
="lsts lst1">•direct-action politics
="lsts lst1">•various kinds of violence
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>}='lgc'>==> ="trms">language
="lsts lst1">•hollowed out of ambiguity
="lsts lst1">•pried away from subjectivity
="lsts lst1">•="trms">instrumentalized in slogans and catchphrases (from obsolescent ideological programs)

='strcls'>*violent drive to immediacy='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= direct-action politics)

(more than) the leakage of ="trms">affect into a ritually rationa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list space

trans="trms">mission and identification needs and secures the appearance of their exteriority

slogan ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">traverse the gap between word and deed, convert the difficult tasks of education and redistribution into the clarion call ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> pop songs (anyone can utter these words and in so doing find themselves enthralled by the strange sensation of speaking someone else's words and ="trms">simultaneously experiencing them as one's own)
='strcls'>*slogan='lgc'>: a deeply reified speech (at once vacuous and overfull) at the point were the boundary between ="trms">language and thing threatens to dissolve ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•(its ="trms">communicative function='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*soli="trms">citation of identity among speakers='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•(its primary signification='lgc'>:) the fact of ='strcls'>*collective utterance='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=/= dialogism)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]slogan='lgc'>: ="trms">litera="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">response to the mundane crises of mediation (in a political rally) ='lgc'>[reduced to the most ="trms">instrumental dimension='lgc'>]

the awkward trace of dubious ="trms">literacy (in miners message inscribed on the placard) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> resistance into the ="trms">communicative process
who/what speaks='qstn'>?
(case of EFF='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•pidgin, minimal and unambiguous message borders on telegraphic ="trms">code (men miners)
="lsts lst1">•typographically standardized form, graphical form of a chant (women demo) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> vocalization of a slogan that anyone can speak ='lgc'>==> resignification and redeployment

(public sphere avowes) necessity of mediation but also of its effacement ='lgc'>=/= short circuiting to which the slogan aspires with ="trms">language that is stripped of ambiguity


messianism='lgc'>: the drive to transcend mediation altogether

(="frds scrmbld">Jassem's mode of) explaining what had happened with all the art of a ="trms">storyteller and truly Spartican ="trms">authority
="prgrph">-='lgc'>[Spartan athlete='lgc'>: marked by simplicity, frugality, or avoidance of luxury and comfort='lgc'>]


(leftist activist='lgc'>:) those who claim better re="trms">presentational capacities (because the re="trms">presentative function has been confused with a governing function) ='lgc'>+ aspiration for something beyond this re="trms">presentation

performance of moral ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">righteousness

ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion at the threshold of liberation

unconscious mytho="trms">poetic structures

insistence on being clandestine='lgc'> = claim of importance

offering oneself in the role of “leader” in the pursuit of immediacy

strike as an ecstatic experience of collectivity and self-="trms">presencing ='lgc'>=/= self-re="trms">presentation, mediation


="ppl">Marx's view of the role of the individual in ="trms">history, in his Eighteenth Brumaire, that ='strcls'>*the identity of the workers’ ="trms">interests does not automatically become the basis of a sense of ="trms">community='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> workers are blocked in their capacities for self-re="trms">presentation ='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>***eloquent appropriation of the workers’ possible but ="trms">interrupted capacity for self-re="trms">presentation='strcls'>***
='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~> messianism ='and'>& ="trms">sublime

(in liberal electoral democratic order='lgc'>:) “having a voice='lgc'> = the mark of political subjectivity” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (a very bad de="trms">finition of) power='lgc'>: making oneself heard and heard in a manner to which others must ="trms">respond

(sensation of ="trms">presence and immediacy heightened in) face-to-face ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> transcendent experience of ="trms">communication ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that “there be no loss or dissipation between speaking and being heard”

(messianic utterance of) slogan ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> immediacy
='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>? banishing ambiguity at the expensive of signification

aspiration to immediacy ='lgc'>+ ="trms">communicative fullness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> simple ='strcls'>*op="trms">positional corrective='strcls'>*
a substantialized, corporealized ="trms">figuration of power vs. EFF make themselves into pure proxies

(pedagogy, a horrible and wrong idea of) “perfect trans="trms">mission of intention ='lgc'>==> production of con="trms">sensus”

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='lgc'>[explosion of accuracies='lgc'>]

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after death there is='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•rumer
="lsts lst1">•afterlife
="lsts lst1">•


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="large lg5" stl="font-size:142%"> (Nicholas ="ppl">Shapiro shows in his research on) people in ordinary toxic homes='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*their apprehension of conventionally insensible domestic chemical exposure was informed by sustained attention to barely perceptible alteration of somatic function and atmosphere='strcls'>*

(Sloterdijk, ="ppl">="ppl">Latour, Anderson, ="ppl">Berlant, ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart, ="ppl">Shapiro) to explain body's ="trms">relation to the ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ancillary process of being a living body as='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•becoming sensitive
="lsts lst1">•="trms">embodying atmospheres
="lsts lst1">•somatically judging environments
="lsts lst1">•becoming corporeal aware of nonhumans
="lsts lst1">•protracted low-level encounter with domestic chemicals ='lgc'>--accumulate='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*chemical ="trms">sublime='strcls'>* ='lgc'><== (indistinct and distributed harm of) late industrial ="trms">material ="trms">ecologies (='lgc'>=/= enlightenment ="trms">sublime='lgc'>: ="trms">spectacle ="trms">material threat with transcendence of im="trms">material reason)

silent and invisible microe="trms">missions accrue within the envelope of the home ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> residents reckon with how their homes are de="trms">composing into them as they de="trms">compose in their homes

somatic work of the chemically concerned is enmeshed with an ='strcls'>*apprehension of their own bodies that is ="trms">simultaneously ="trms">sensuous and ="trms">epistemological='strcls'>* (='lgc'>~ “bodily knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge” ="trms">situated within a process of “bodily reasoning” that tempers not just what one knows but what one becomes with or is estranged from ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= forensic architecture notion of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='lgc'>])

‘sustained bodily reasoning ='lgc'>==> chemical ="trms">sublime’
="ppl">Shapiro ='lgc'>+ Kim Fortune ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> c[...]