Non-Time and Hauntology

[kelley]

am hearing in this coining of a "ubilapse" or the dynamics of ubiquitous relapse re: capital, climate, and any novel event horizon faint echoes of hauntological inflection:

https://cashedcobrazhousewriter.substac ... rn-of-post

https://cashedcobrazhousewriter.substac ... ohens-work

[semper occultus]

interesting links

Is it true also that the culture is oriented to ever-older people who hold increasingly concentrated wealth and who live so damn long, and therefore endlessly repeating what they like, albeit as the "content" within the new tech forms? Yes

great point - this fossilised layer of 60's-90's youth culture must be crowding out other stuff just by the fact of it still orbiting like space junk - all those now ancient rock stars on zimmer frames still selling out stadiums largely to exactly the same people who were there in their teens-20's decades ago. Neither the performers or their fanbase seem willing to give up the adolescent life stage & move on, to gracefully exit stage left & leave the limelight to be hogged by newer, younger, cooler & more beautiful creatures ( Madonna's latest face anyone ?) - kinda weird & yet I quite understand it ( is Dark Side of the Moon still in the album charts btw ?)

[JackRiddler]

Always worth a bump to see who's still live around here.

[Harvey]

I feel more dead now than when I remember feeling certain that I was dead (perhaps that I had never been alive) back in 2012 when nothing I experienced seemed possible and no change to the sensation of the impossible strangeness of everyday experience seemed possible.

My sense of the experience of Hauntology others describe is that almost everything culture has ever promised and fooled me into thinking was desirable or inevitable, was merely bullshit. Is Hauntology a longing to exit from or a fulfilment of, the advertisement?

Haunted as necessary precursor to being alive...?

[JackRiddler]

Haunted as necessary precursor to being alive...?

An interesting thought.

Is the soul a haunting?

[Harvey]

Is the soul a haunting?

Yes, that makes perfect sense to me. As valid as any other way of describing it, I would have thought.

Certainly evocative.