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but a system. Abandonment is not a process of isolating and removing any single given thing, as
though there could be a single given thing to actually exist in its own right. It would be easy to
make sense of absolute forgetting if it was simply posed as the transition of an object from a
functional gear in a machine into a dark, isolated object. Intuitively, this seems to be the
experience that we have of abandonment. However, for Barad, becomings are performative and
intra-active. By applying this model, it seems that forgetting constitutes a breakdown in relation.
Given that different assemblages become through relationality, then there is a qualitative change
in that which has emerged when those relations are broken. This change constitutes the process
of forgetting, one that is gradual and continuous in the regulatory process of forgetting and one
that is abrupt and complete in avulsive forgetting. Forgetting, at its core, is the disentangling of
entanglements thereby qualitatively changing the agential intra-active entities. Old and
abandoned systems are lost as dark objects in the disentangling process.
Dark objects, then, exist in this zone of the negative possibility where the quality of a
relation is neither affirmed in continuous becoming, nor reduced to non-being. What is lost, as
Malabou might state, "never becomes real, never becomes unreal either - but remains suspended
in the post-traumatic form of the subject that misses nothing who does not even lack lack, ...
remains to the end this subjective form that is constituted starting from the absence from the
self."'52 The denegated is absent. It is neither real nor unreal; abandoned by its relations, it
becomes lost in the dark. The forgotten is that which is expelled from return; the change in
quality as new cuts are made in connection. New performances emerge to be conceptualized as
new becomings. Forgetting is the result of a primordial dis-connectedness which may go
unnoticed or may weigh heavily on the new assemblages which emerge.
152 Malabou, Ontology of the Accident, 90.74
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