Summary of What is Hauntology?
The video explores the concept of hauntology, which involves the presence of ghosts or specters from the past that influence the present and future.
- The speaker delves into the work of theorists like Jacques Derrida, who explore the idea of haunting in philosophy and ontology.
- The video discusses how nostalgia for the past and the unrealized futures of the past can haunt society.
- It also touches on the impact of media and digital technology on the spectralization of truth and politics.
- The video concludes by highlighting the disenchantment of the world in the face of capitalism and the ongoing presence of ghosts in our society.
Creators or contributors featured
- Jacques Derrida
- Karl Marx
- Michel Foucault
Notable Quotes
— 03:02 — « all ontology is shadowed by a hauntology the ghosts that are kind of there but also not there heres your visual there he does pretty clear and this is from specters of marx, »
— 11:03 — « the miscarried futures of the past perhaps injustice is never brought to justice the evils of the past too continue to haunt right up to this minute abels blood cries out from the ground and the good old days were not everyones good old days, »
— 15:13 — « but it now its a way of life and again some like to blame postmodernism for that but postmodernists if any there be are merely observers who reproduce the conditions of the spectralization, »
— 18:31 — « haunting belongs to the structure of every hegemony so what do we do, »
— 19:40 — « the time is out of joint thou art a scholar speak to it] »
Category
Art and Creativity