Status Updates From Trauma, Memory and Transfor...

"As Caruth stresses: 'The traumatised carry an impossible history within them, or they become themselves the symptoms of a history, that they cannot entirely possess.'" - Christian Franklin Svensson

"...art can be a helpful way of testing reality." - Erna Anjarwati

"...such a dichotomy between in-groups (us) & out-groups (them) helps people to construct their own threatened world that then creates the circumstances in which identification & interdependence with the in-group are directly associated with fear, trauma, and hostility toward the threatening out-group." - Erna Anjarwati

"Through these breached boundaries between inner & outer layers, between sheltering skin & raw flesh, & between inside & outside, traumatic memory seeps into 'now' & becomes present but as sensations that escape containment as representations." - Flaudette May V. Datuin

"...Nor would it be useful to simply replace one official state history w/an alternative history that makes the same totalising claims...For such attempts at binary reversals merely perpetuate the very same violent hierarchies of knowledge & power that have been the root cause of our problem in the first place." - Farish A. Noor

"According to Caruth, 'trauma is not locatable in the simple violent or original event in an individual's past, but rather in the way that its very unassimilated nature - the way it was precisely not known in the first instance - returns to haunt the survivor later on.'"