Tag: hauntology

• “Queer Time Machines: Hauntologies of Literature” by Ben Berman Ghan

  Elizabeth Freeman opens Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories introduction with a description of the 2002 experimental film K.I.P by Nguyen Tan Hoang – a hybrid of queer art and gay porn – a project of “time art” (Freeman 1) that fights against the constraints of what Freeman calls chrononormativity, “the use of time to […]

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  January 1, 2020

  discussions

  Chrono, essays, hauntology, Queer art, Queering

• “Ghost Writing: Carceral Legacies, Haunted Bodies and Spaces” by Mauve Perle Tahat

  One of the most terrifying ghost stories the U.S. has is incarceration. The prison is a haunted grotto. Prisons and prisoners are haunted by traumas caused by white supremacy. People admitted to these spectral spaces are part of its phenomenological architecture. When prisoners leave they are forever escorted by phantasmal histories. Most tangibly they will […]

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  May 13, 2019

  permanent fugue

  critical prose, critical theory, film, ghosts, hauntology, incarceration, literature, long reads, Mauve Perle Tahat, Music

• “What the Hell is Hauntology?”: A Reading List for 2019’s Theme by M. Perle Tahat

  2019’s theme for TERSE. is hauntology: nostalgia for lost futures. As our columnist Jordannah Elizabeth bluntly asked, “what the hell is ‘hauntology’?” Hauntology, as we’d like to explore it, is a way to describe a phenomenon related to resonances of traumatic events; a coming to terms with “what’s been done” in the present based on […]

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  April 15, 2019

  permanent fugue

  2019, afrofuturism, call for artists, call for papers, call for submissions, Charles E. Jones, countermemory, Derrida, digital humanities, futures, hauntology, intergenerational trauma, Invisible Universe, J.A. Mbembe, Kodwo Eshun, literary journal, M. Asli Dukan, Mark Fisher, memory, metaphysics, nostalgia, playing in the dark, R.F. Kuang, Reynaldo Anderson, theme, Toni Morrison, worlding, Ytasha Womack