#everydaysocialtheory

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Hallucination emerged as perhaps the best method by which to 'see' haunting, because it accounts for the incompatibility between information and experience, thus creating a vision of that which is not available to direct experience. It is a vision that is fundamentally diasporic because it is the movement of haunting, along with its varied and multiplied effects, that allows spectrality to be perceived

Grace M. Cho, Haunting the Korean Diaspora

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Trauma evacuates memory in that it perpetually disturbs one's sense of being settled. Memory is poised to take flight whenever it is threatened, when there is a sense of a trauma returning or of a new trauma that is about to happen. This sense of impending catastrophe is an illusion, however, because the trauma never quite arrives. it never arrives because it has already happened; it is already in the present as an effect of some persistent past. The traumatized subject is continually uprooted. She might seem to be in a familiar place, in a sense that she has been there before, and she will most likely return there again and again through the force of repetition. Yet this place is neither an origin nor a final destination, keeping her suspended between a failed remembering and an incomplete forgetting.

Grace M. Cho, Haunting the Korean Diaspora

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The very words we then use to tell the story of our pain also work to reshape our bodies, creating new impressions

Sara Ahmed, The Cultural Politics of Emotion

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[Histories] can 'touch' one another. There are resonant juxtapositions between past and present whose explanatory power is not casual or teleological; instead, the affective charge of investment, of being 'touched,' brings the past forward into the present

Ann Cvetkovich, An Archive of Feelings

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The specter of literal death serves as a pointed reminder of the social death of losing one's history

Ann Cvetkovich, An Archive of Feelings

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Vulnerability among us cannot be a signifier for vultures, parasites or scavengers to at those exposed pieces of us. No, instead, it should be a clarion call to the griots, the healers, the shamans, the artists, the children, the elders, the lovers and all those with a beating heart to come and gather 'round: so they too may assist in, and experience, the love practice of a village without bounds

Tabias Wilson, Godless Circumcisions

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But if the structure-agency opposition isn't how things really work, then perhaps politics is more complicated, and therefore open to more hopeful action. People can and do make power through, for example, developing capacities in organizations. But that's not enough, because all an individual organization can do on its own is tweak Armageddon  When the capacities resulting from purposeful action are combined towards ends greater than mission statements or other provisional limits, powerful alignments begin to shake the ground. In other words, movement happens.

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag

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