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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/05/20 1:10 pm, Junting Huang
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">this centralizing appropriation of artifactual powers for ‘creating the event,’</pre>
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<p>this present that never presents</p>
<p>...strange, I was just reading <i>May '68 Did Not Take Place <br>
</i></p>
<p>The difficulty seems not to be to realise the critical potential
of the current crisis but to create it. The event needs to be
made.</p>
<p>I think this is what <span>Heiner Müller is doing in <i>Hamletmaschine.</i></span></p>
<p><span>You could say the <i>unconscious</i> of the event needs to
be created. <br>
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<p><span>What can happen now to escape the centralizing
appropriation of artifactual powers for 'creating the event'? <br>
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<p><span>or, as Ricardo Dominguez wrote, breaking out of the
breakout? (although narrativising is only one centralizing
appropriative strategy)<br>
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<p><span>(there is a short text with this title by Alphonso Lingis.
I mention it because I like it.)</span></p>
<p><span>returning to the present that never presents: Fisher does
not really handle of this in terms of hauntology, unless the
present is haunted by itself; and perhaps this gets a little
closer to what Deleuze & Guattari are saying, and of course
</span><span><span>Müller, to listen to this indistinct
murmuration and hear in it the form of something trying to
declare itself.</span></span></p>
<p><span><span>Best,</span></span></p>
<p><span><span>Simon</span></span></p>
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