#same night on repeat

[olreid]

really can't stop thinking about how the office-selves in severance experience the passage of time by noticing when they feel rested (means their outside counterpart has slept or had a relaxing weekend) vs. when they feel tired (means it's almost time for their outside counterpart to sleep) and how for those of us with <3 chronic fatigue <3 it literally feels the exact same to wake up after a full night's rest as it does to crawl into bed after a full day of work.. like so much of what it means for time to pass is to experience different sensations in the body over the course of the day or the week and when your body feels the same (bad) all the time it really does feel like time isn't moving :|

[exitwound]

we’re! not! watching! this! movie! again!

[olreid]

[ID: But how to establish the exact moment in which a story begins? Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book. end ID]

yeah

[olreid]

still thinking about @swordatsunset's post on haunting as stasis and haunted houses as places that are stuck on repeat.. quotes are from ghostly matters by avery gordon, beloved by toni morrison, what is hauntology? by mark fisher, southwood plantation road by the mountain goats, we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson, haunted house by sir babygirl, report 1624: the house by lisa robertson, next to normal, and robert icke's the oresteia.

[olreid]

[ID: Haunting is often treated as more or less identical to trauma. But trauma and the time of trauma are, in my view, quite different. In the classic psychoanalytic conception, trauma not only misaligns our perception of time, it is, one could say, itself a misalignment of the temporality of experience since trauma is characteristically experienced belatedly. That's to say, it's the repression of the shocking or horrible experience and its displaced repetition that characterizes trauma and that jams time so that one experiences the shock later. As Freud and others have shown, a traumatized person or society is stuck in a past that repeats as a present that can never end. Trauma thus binds you to what can‟t be forgotten or forgiven. It binds you not to the repetition of a memory of a terrible, horrible, shocking event or experience but binds you to the repression of it. This repetition of and libidinal investment in the repression binds the future—what comes next—to the trauma, which is what never ends, what can‟t end. In this sense, trauma is a deeply regressive and repressive state—an awful predicament for both individuals and societies—a fatalistic and aberrant condition because seemingly interminable. end ID]

time loop nation wya

[olreid]

[ID: Clearly, cinema was in the process of being not just technologically but spiritually murdered by the increasingly cinematic quality of everyday life. There was an atmosphere of saturated, narrative repetition in the air that felt like simulation or psychosis. end ID]

[olreid]

yeah the sitcom as time loop. weve all seen it

[olreid]

[ID: a century of cards and experience had taught her that the history of the family was a machine with unavoidable repetitions, a turning wheel that would have gone on spilling into eternity were it not for the progressive and irremediable wearing of the axle. end ID]

exactly .