Hauntology

Group 12 Boot Journal   All proceeds will be donated to Mark Fisher's family memorial fund Derrida’s concept of hauntology, coined in his 1993 book Spectres of Marx, is based on the French word hantise. As a verb hantise is used much the same way as the English ‘haunting’ but it also expresses the return of the revenants, their comings and goings with the caveat that the act of return is originary: it begins by coming back.  The Derridean term, concerned with the state of simultaneous being and not-being, has more recently been applied to music instead of politics, to describe new compositions that make use of forgotten techniques or sound effects to create a ‘spectral’ sense of the past in the present. In particular to recreate sounds that were, when first invented, an attempt to be ‘futuristic.’ At its simplest, then, hauntology is another form of nostalgia, a nostalgia for ideas of the future that have been rendered obsolete by the march of time and the quote-unquote “End of Hi