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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.”
“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.”
“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'.”
“This was against the dominant hauntology by the specter of life often found in metaphors used by architects -- "life-like" or "nature-like.”
“I was recently told about a fantastic new hauntology Flickr group.”
“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.”
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“There's a discussion on audio hauntology over at Whitechapel.”
“The Major Touchstone… on What is hauntology?”
“Categories: French culture · art · economics · grotesque · hauntology · irrationalism · life · philosophy · theory · transgression”
“Against this, her vocals stood even more intensely as the pure residue, the hauntology in the machine, the tragedy of the soul imperfectible by science.”
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the big list
all my wordies
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Philosophical Jargon
Words philosophical writers use to give the illusion of technical competence, including up-trippingly specialised senses of words that have other jobs during daylight hours.
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noele's list
vertiginous, verdant, mellifluous, serpentine, verdigris, traject, amaranthine, luminous, phosphorescent, temerous, cerulean, shapeshifter and 531 more...
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Nihilarity
Absurdity, dark art, radicalism, anger, tragic irony, and nothingness. Tee-hee!
nihilism, dada, futurism, rayonism, postmodernity, deconstruction, surrealism, existentialism, reductio ad absurdum, discordianism, operation mindfuck, amorality and 127 more...
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cast a spell
amulet, charm, magic, conjuror, Prospero, candle, cure, flame, hierophant, tarot, cast, cauldron and 20 more...
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strange magic
bewitched, occult, clairvoyance, divination, arcane, enigmatic, ouija, black-magic, planchette, esoteric, palmistry, pataphysics and 13 more...
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Literary / Aesthetic
Gongorism, paracinema, avantronica, arrière-garde, chrestomathy, diorama, philological, ideographic, daguerreotype, litterateur, pasticcio, mimeticism and 59 more...
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deceptive, erotic, harsh
From the Brooklyn Bridge to St. Petersburg /
In every boardroom or boudoir across the world /
From the Fall of Rome to the Renaissance /
Through Reformation, Cold War, Vietnam.headless, beast, bones, leftovers, warlike, groan, cannibal, gruesome, stench, war, carrion, cataclysm and 56 more...
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sovietsleepover's Words
lacustrine, ornithological, specious, spurious, creosote, hauntology, wren, ornithrynchus ana..., cornice, debacle, dire, delinquent and 16 more...
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omnidose's Words
affect, hauntology, differance, cyborg, intersex, epistemology, ontology, posthuman, abject, somatic, rotten, index and 5 more...
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Derrida
words o' Jacques Derrida
hauntology, meontology, khôra, deconstruction, logocentrism, phallogocentrism, différance, globalatinization, pharmakon, destinerrance, animot, restance and 34 more...
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frogapplause 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. Oct 19, 2011