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In his war memoirs, Wilfred Bion attempts to find a form by which to describe psychic life amidst death, “I died there.” Here, questions of form, genre, subjectivity and the precariousness of reality are knotted together. In this seminar, we will seek to move our thinking outside of the hard and fast boundaries between “extreme violence” and “chronic violence”, or between catastrophic events and everyday life to instead explore the interconnections of voice, intelligibility, and volatility in selected anthropological texts, ethnography, paired with specific philosophical and psychoanalytic texts.