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[…] body memory carries with it a fundamental ambiguity: the body’s memory of places belongs to us as personal subjects and simultaneously can remain at odds with our personal recollection of the past. […] Traumatic memory is one especially visceral way that the body can become a host for a living history that the traumatized subject is alienated from despite being constituted by that past. But this sense of body memory as being the site of a different past is not limited to trauma. […] the role of body memory can help explain phenomenon such as hauntings. Both trauma and hauntings call upon the idea that the body has a hidden teleology that strives toward the preservation of self, even if that self is now a materialization of self-estrangement, now ill-at-home in its flesh.
Thu, 26 May 2022 20:35:51— Dylan Trigg, “Interview with Dylan Trigg,” Figure/ Ground, 2012.
