Tuesday, 15 December 2020

In mood there is temporalisation as the proto-narrativisation of feeling, that is it extends feeling which as inchoate sensation is purely in the present, to a cloud of expectations and recurrences necessarily in time without specifying any particulars. This pure propensity could be expanded into histories and justifications but in doing so would become too specific and miss the peculiar oppressiveness that is its hallmark. What the narratives would cover over in allegory would be the interdependence of impersonal and personal subjectivities, the way that there is no individual self without mythical collective selves of various registers all twined together like strings in a rope. There cannot be a you-subject without they-subjects to demand of it and there cannot be any they-subjects without the energy of will drawn from you as the embattled individual. The effect is orchestral in its harmonies and dissonances, like some demonic concerto.

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