In this chapter, I offer an analysis of embodied hauntological experiences that have been the subject of my research over many decades. They have the potential to advance our understanding of the intimate lives of power, through taking experiences of the non-rational as a primary focus (also see Blackman, The affect theory reader 2: Worldings, tensions, futures. Duke University Press. 2023a; Media Theory, 7(2), 245–266, 2023b). The non-rational is often associated with the irrational, with moments of craziness, and framed through pathologizing discourses. In different ways they are embodied phenomena that are characterized by traps, knots, binds, masks, mazes, parasites, shadows, and forms of “topological looping” (see Chow, Entanglements, or transmedial thinking about capture. Duke University Press, 2012). The non-rational includes the phenomenon of hallucinations and related experiences, like grief, and processes of de-worlding that are associated with the past, or multiple pasts, encroaching in the present. The experiences that I focus on can destabilize self and other, near and far, dead and alive, real and imaginary, sane and insane, and the human and more-than-human (see Blackman, Hearing voices: Embodiment and experience. Free Association Books, 2001; Immaterial bodies: Affect, embodiment, mediation. Sage, 2012). They disrupt borders and boundaries, staging what has become lost, separated, and disjointed, yet maintaining an absent presence. This chapter unpacks some of the common structures of feeling and communication of hauntological embodied experiences, arguing that hauntology provides a writing methodology that has a commitment to conjuring and summoning ghosts or spectres, or what remains unseen, half-hidden and invisible (see Cho, Haunting the Korean diaspora: Shame, secrecy, silence and the forgotten war. University of Minnesota Press, 2008; Gordon, Ghostly matters: Haunting and the sociological imagination. University of Minnesota Press, 2008). My aim is to create an affective methodology that is hospitable to ghosts (ethos), attuning to lost pasts and futures-yet-to-come that operate through multiplications of realities.

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Chapter 16: Hauntological Structures of Communication and Feeling: Making a Space for the Non-Rational

  • Lisa Blackman

摘要

In this chapter, I offer an analysis of embodied hauntological experiences that have been the subject of my research over many decades. They have the potential to advance our understanding of the intimate lives of power, through taking experiences of the non-rational as a primary focus (also see Blackman, The affect theory reader 2: Worldings, tensions, futures. Duke University Press. 2023a; Media Theory, 7(2), 245–266, 2023b). The non-rational is often associated with the irrational, with moments of craziness, and framed through pathologizing discourses. In different ways they are embodied phenomena that are characterized by traps, knots, binds, masks, mazes, parasites, shadows, and forms of “topological looping” (see Chow, Entanglements, or transmedial thinking about capture. Duke University Press, 2012). The non-rational includes the phenomenon of hallucinations and related experiences, like grief, and processes of de-worlding that are associated with the past, or multiple pasts, encroaching in the present. The experiences that I focus on can destabilize self and other, near and far, dead and alive, real and imaginary, sane and insane, and the human and more-than-human (see Blackman, Hearing voices: Embodiment and experience. Free Association Books, 2001; Immaterial bodies: Affect, embodiment, mediation. Sage, 2012). They disrupt borders and boundaries, staging what has become lost, separated, and disjointed, yet maintaining an absent presence. This chapter unpacks some of the common structures of feeling and communication of hauntological embodied experiences, arguing that hauntology provides a writing methodology that has a commitment to conjuring and summoning ghosts or spectres, or what remains unseen, half-hidden and invisible (see Cho, Haunting the Korean diaspora: Shame, secrecy, silence and the forgotten war. University of Minnesota Press, 2008; Gordon, Ghostly matters: Haunting and the sociological imagination. University of Minnesota Press, 2008). My aim is to create an affective methodology that is hospitable to ghosts (ethos), attuning to lost pasts and futures-yet-to-come that operate through multiplications of realities.