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thinkingimages · 1 year
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A Hauntology for Everyday Life
Meaning, Language, and Subjectivity
Ghosts, Metaphors, and Structures of Feeling
The Haunted Objects of Desire
Hauntology sans Exorcism, from Justice to Networked Subjectivities
Epilogue by Michael M.J. Fischer: Hauntology’s Genesis, Catacoustics, and Future Shadows
Correction to: The Hauntology of Everyday Life
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funeral · 2 years
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What haunts is not that which is gone, it is that which was expected to come but whose condition of arrival has been foreclosed, and the ghost is an advocate of the promised future that was unrightfully canceled when the past was destroyed.
Sadeq Rahimi, The Hauntology of Everyday Life
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The idea of the Uncanny in Psychology
To Freud  the Uncanny is what unconsciously reminds us of our own Id, our forbidden and thus repressed impulses – especially when placed in a context of uncertainty that can remind one of infantile beliefs in the omnipotence of thought. Such uncanny elements are perceived as threatening by our super-ego ridden with oedipal guilt as it fears  punishment for deviating from societal norms. Thus, the items and individuals that we project our own repressed impulses upon become a most uncanny threat to us, uncanny monsters and freaks akin to fairy-tale folk-devils, and subsequently often become scapegoats we blame for all sorts of perceived miseries, calamities, and maladies.
Canny is from the Anglo-Saxon root ken: "knowledge, understanding, or cognizance; mental perception: an idea beyond one's ken. "Thus the uncanny is something outside one's familiar knowledge or perceptions. 
Sadeq Rahimi has noted a common relationship between the uncanny and direct or metaphorical visual references, which he explains in terms of basic processes of ego development. Rahimi presents a wide range of evidence from various contexts to demonstrate how uncanny experiences are typically associated with themes and metaphors of vision, blindness, mirrors and other optical tropes. According to Rahimi, instances of the uncanny like doppelgängers, ghosts, déjà vu, alter egos, self-alienations and split personhoods, phantoms, twins, living dolls, etc. share two important features: that they are closely tied with visual tropes, and that they are variations on the theme of doubling of the ego. 
Roboticist Masahiro Mori's essay on human reactions to human looking entities , describes the gap between familiar living people and their also familiar inanimate representations, such as dolls, puppets, mannequins, prosthetic hands, and android robots.
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meuncannyme · 3 years
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Sadeq Rahimi has noted a common relationship between the uncanny and direct or metaphorical visual references, which he explains in terms of basic processes of ego development, specifically as developed by Lacan's theory of the mirror stage.[13] Rahimi presents a wide range of evidence from various contexts to demonstrate how uncanny experiences are typically associated with themes and metaphors of vision, blindness, mirrors and other optical tropes. He also presents historical evidence showing strong presence of ocular and specular themes and associations in the literary and psychological tradition out of which the notion of 'the uncanny' emerged. Based on this research, I believe that by creating bold visual elements, using the elements he mentioned to morph and transform and reflect them in my works, good results will be achieved.
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global-news-station · 5 years
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KABUL: Allegations of sexual abuse of members of Afghanistan’s national women’s soccer team by sport officials have resulted in missed paychecks after sponsors pulled out, taunts and entreaties from parents to their daughters to quit playing.
FIFA, global soccer’s governing body, suspended the head of the Afghan Football Federation and several other officials in December. The Afghan federation has called the allegations against its president, Keramuddin Keram, “groundless”.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani ordered an investigation after Britain’s Guardian newspaper reported in November that senior figures linked to the women’s team alleged that some players had been molested by federation officials.
The treatment of the female players, even those who have not alleged sexual abuse, illustrate the Afghan culture’s complicated approach to handling matters involving both women’s sexuality and participation in sports.
The national women’s team was only formed in 2010.
Since the investigation was launched, so many players have stopped training that friendly matches scheduled for outside Afghanistan have been cancelled, said the federation’s Arzu Rahimi, who is responsible for women’s football.
PUBLIC SHAME, FAMILY PRESSURE
At least seven players have made allegations, although they have not been identified publicly. Five of the players who have made allegations did not respond to requests for comment from Reuters.
Parents, alarmed by public treatment of female players since the allegations, have urged their daughters to give up soccer.
“My mother told me not to go to federation, university or even outside the house anymore,” said Samea Hamasi, 25, a member of the team for seven years.
Players who were in Uzbekistan for a series of matches in November faced taunts from Afghans living there.
Players sobbed in the dressing room in Tashkent’s stadium and had to be coaxed to take the field, many with tears in their eyes.
“After what people have put us through, I say to myself that I wish I were not an Afghan at all,” Samea said.
Fereshta Shaikh Miri, 23, has played for the team for five years.
“Before I was proud to be a member of the team, but now it is a stigma to be part of the team and I feel ashamed to mention that I am part of the national football team,” she said.
The men’s soccer team, receiving government support, has begun spring training, but training has been cancelled for the women.
Dubai-based Alokozay Group, a company with a ubiquitous presence in Kabul selling soft drinks, tissues and tea, pulled its $850,000 annual contribution to the federation in February, following Danish sports brand Hummel, which cancelled its sponsorship in late November.
Afghanistan’s football federation is now solely funded by FIFA, the Asian Football Confederation and the government.
“All the achievements of the national football team would be impossible without (Alokozay’s) support,” said Yusuf Kargar, supervisor of Afghanistan’s football federation.
“After all the rumours about the abuses of female players, they are looked at negatively by the public.”
Alokozay cancelled its sponsorship because of an administrative vacuum resulting from the allegations, the company said in a February statement.
In a statement in November, Hummel cut ties with the Afghan Football Federation citing its “unacceptable behaviour”.
The investigation of the players’ allegations is at an early stage, said Mohammad Sadeq Farahi, head of the crime investigation department for the Office of the Attorney General.
It now wants to send investigators to France, Denmark, Switzerland, Germany and Greece to interview players living abroad, and is seeking visas, he said.
Separately, FIFA is conducting its own investigation. The organisation said in March Keram would remain suspended for three months.
The post Abuse allegations leave Afghan women’s soccer team in tatters appeared first on ARYNEWS.
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chrisengel · 7 years
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The rise of the notion of subjectivity has its philosophical roots in the thinking of Descartes and Kant, and its articulation throughout the modern era has depended on the understanding of what constitutes an individual. There have been various interpretations of such concepts as the self and the soul, and the identity or self-consciousness which lies at the root of the notion of subjectivity.[2] Subjectivity is an inherently social mode that comes about through innumerable interactions within society. As much as subjectivity is a process of individuation, it is equally a process of socialization, the individual never being isolated in a self-contained environment, but endlessly engaging in interaction with the surrounding world. Culture is a living totality of the subjectivity of any given society constantly undergoing transformation. Subjectivity is both shaped by it and shapes it in turn, but also by other things like the economy, political institutions, communities, as well as the natural world. Though the boundaries of societies and their cultures are indefinable and arbitrary, the subjectivity inherent in each one is palatable and can be recognized as distinct from others. Subjectivity is in part a particular experience or organization of reality, which includes how one views and interacts with humanity, objects, consciousness, and nature, so the difference between different cultures brings about an alternate experience of existence that forms life in a different manner. A common effect on an individual of this disjunction between subjectivities is culture shock, where the subjectivity of the other culture is considered alien and possibly incomprehensible or even hostile. Political subjectivity is an emerging concept in social sciences and humanities. Political subjectivity is a reference to the deep embeddedness of subjectivity in the socially intertwined systems of power and meaning. "Politicality," writes Sadeq Rahimi in Meaning, Madness and Political Subjectivity, "is not an added aspect of the subject, but indeed the mode of being of the subject, that is, precisely what the subject is."[3]
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funeral · 2 years
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“From interview with a psychotic patient” —Sadeq Rahimi, The ego, the ocular, and the uncanny
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funeral · 3 years
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Sadeq Rahimi, “The ego, the ocular, and the uncanny: Why are metaphors of vision central in accounts of the uncanny?”
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funeral · 3 years
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The ego is always also its own double by definition, caught in an infinite chain of reflections, as if between parallel mirrors.
Sadeq Rahimi, The ego, the ocular, and the uncanny
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funeral · 3 years
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The ego that is born or is confirmed in the mirror stage is indeed a source and protective measure for the sense of wholeness, but with two fundamental features: it is illusory, and its protective function comes at a dear cost. The visually perceived reflection of the body in the mirror, once identified by the infant, functions as a placeholder for an imagined self. For that reason the specular image in the mirror offers the comfort of an identity but, again, for that very same reason it is an illusion, it is simultaneously ‘the origin of’ and ‘the double of’ the ego, and thus a potential source of terror, alienation and paranoia as a vision in whose very being it hides the uncanny specter of not-being.
—Sadeq Rahimi, The ego, the ocular, and the uncanny
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funeral · 3 years
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Doubleness and duplication are the fundamental common ground where the concepts of selfhood, vision and the uncanny converge. The seemingly wide range of the tropes of uncanny horror that pervaded the 18th and 19th century literatures are generally reducible to the effects of duplication, and commonly associated with vision and reflection. Ghosts and doppelgängers, automatons and living dolls, mirror images, shadows, phantoms, twins, apparitions, looking-glass worlds, déjà vu, alter-egos, self-alienated or split personhoods, these all share the basic feature of a doubleness imposed on a presumably unique original object, and the in-between liminality resulting from that process, and they also all share an ocular genesis. Let us not forget that the concept of ‘uncanny’ is constructed on the play of duplication and authenticity insofar as it is indicative of that which is the same yet not fully so, that which is familiar yet not entirely so.
—Sadeq Rahimi, The ego, the ocular, and the uncanny
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