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  • It's from this notion of renewing resisted and long-thought-dead ideals that the notion of hauntology came to be associated with Ghost Box's music.

    PopMatters 2009

  • Less a full-blown genre than a state of mind, "hauntology" (as it has been dubbed by Simon Reynolds) mixes such far-flung influences as early analog electronica, musique concrete, library 78s, Italian film soundtracks and old newsreels into something wholly other yet quintessentially British in flavor.

    Warped Reality 2009

  • Less a full-blown genre than a state of mind, "hauntology" (as it has been dubbed by Simon Reynolds) mixes such far-flung influences as early analog electronica, musique concrete, library 78s, Italian film soundtracks and old newsreels into something wholly other yet quintessentially British in flavor.

    Warped Reality 2009

  • Vertigo is about the return of the repressed, the power of ghosts (the film works as a perfect 'hauntology'), the scary logic of obsession and the coincidences between obsession and an enterprise called 'art'.

    NAACHGAANA 2008

  • This was against the dominant hauntology by the specter of life often found in metaphors used by architects -- "life-like" or "nature-like."

    Carla Leitao: Dustism, Creatures and Speculative Materialism in Architecture: An Interview With Alisa Andrasek/Biothing Carla Leitao 2012

  • I was recently told about a fantastic new hauntology Flickr group.

    Warren Ellis 2010

  • Here, images of prosthetic subjects, zombies, cut-ups and armies of the medieval dead actually slip off the pages of literature to become the terminal hauntology of these technologized times.

    New Non-Fiction Announcement, D. Harlan Wilson’s Technologized Desire 2009

  • Here, images of prosthetic subjects, zombies, cut-ups and armies of the medieval dead actually slip off the pages of literature to become the terminal hauntology of these technologized times.

    October « 2009 « Dynamic Subspace 2009

  • There's a discussion on audio hauntology over at Whitechapel.

    Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Hauntological brooding at Whitechapel 2008

  • There's a discussion on audio hauntology over at Whitechapel.

    Information, Culture, Policy, Education: 2008

  • Today, hauntology inspires many fields of investigation, from the visual arts to philosophy through electronic music, politics, fiction and literary criticism. At its most basic level, it ties in with the popularity of faux-vintage photography, abandoned spaces and TV series like Life on Mars.

    Hauntology: A not-so-new critical manifestation Andrew Gallix 2019

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  • In 1993, French philosopher Jacques Derrida coined the term “hauntology” in his book, Spectres of Marx. The term was used to describe the presence of ghost-like traces of the past in our culture as we move further into the future.

    October 19, 2011