ABSTRACT Small Pleasures is an extract from a work of critical autobiography in progress. It explores the theme of ‘animating interior worlds’ through the body, gender, genealogy and culture. This work pulls focus to smallness and interiority in everyday acts of living, remembering and relating in contemporary Sydney and Kuala Lumpur delimited by trajectories of work, health and pleasure, or their obverse. Using, as a meditation, George Perec’s notions of the infra-ordinary—‘that which we generally don’t notice, which doesn’t call attention to itself, which is of no importance’—and the endotic, described as a tool to ‘rescue astonishment from the forgotten obvious’ (Lorenzo Sandoval, The Endotic Institute), this work endeavours to ‘read and listen to immanent local traces’ as an approach to understanding larger global complexities that may impact upon a narrating body: experiences of race, migration, ‘women’s business’, illness, speaking and writing. In this essay, I attempt to demonstrate the use of critical autobiography, pathography and autoethnographic processes as a hybrid methodology that may prove fruitful for interrogating contested relationships between a narrator and their own body, the body's history (and memory) of place/displacement/emplacement, and the fluid and ambiguous relationships of that body with surrounding cultural landscapes.

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小快乐：日常空间、行为和身体中内源性的追踪

摘要 《小快乐》是一部正在创作的批判性自传作品的摘录。它通过身体、性别、家谱和文化探索“激活内部世界”的主题。这项工作将焦点集中在当代悉尼和吉隆坡的日常生活、记忆和联系中的微小和内在性，这些行为由工作、健康和快乐的轨迹或其正面划定。作为冥想，使用乔治·佩雷克 (George Perec) 的超常概念——“我们通常不会注意到的东西，不会引起对自身的注意，这并不重要”——以及内源，被描述为一种工具“从被遗忘的显而易见的事物中拯救惊讶”（洛伦佐·桑多瓦尔，内科研究所），这项工作致力于“阅读和聆听内在的本地痕迹”，以此作为理解可能影响叙述体的更大的全球复杂性的方法：种族、移民、“女性事务”、疾病、口语和写作的经历。在这篇文章中，我试图展示批判性自传、病理学和民族志过程作为一种混合方法的使用，这种方法可能对询问叙述者与他们自己的身体、身体的历史（和记忆）位置/位移/位置，以及该身体与周围文化景观之间流动而模糊的关系。