What Is Hauntology?

2012/01/01 by Mark Fisher · 9 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Contemporary Literature and Criticism #Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior #Gothic Literature and Media Analysis

paper · doi:10.1525/fq.2012.66.1.16

Abstract

Consideration of the idea of hauntology encompassing Jacques Derrida’s introduction of the term in Specters of Marx; Fredric Jameson’s analyses of postmodernism and The Shining; and a British tradition of literature, film, and television by such authors as John Akomfrah, Alan Garner, M. R. James, Patrick Keiller, Nigel Kneale, David Peace, and Chris Petit.

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