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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Hauntology"”.
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Spectres of Childhood: Spectrality and Hauntology in Children’s Literature
… It offers scholars a new critical approach where hauntology suspends binary ontologies in generational orderings. This research is valuable for scholars of children’s literature and culture, and for those interested in childhood studies and the history of childhood. It introduces how spectrality …
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Future nostalgia in the twenty-first century: Hauntology, hermeneutics, and historicity in contemporary popular music
… the philosophical and popular culture concept of hauntology and its application to popular music and theory of history, arguing that hauntology is limited in ways that make it unequipped for understanding popular music’s historicity as the form develops into the 2020s. Drawing on UK artist Dua …
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Exploring theatrical conventions and the application of palimpsest, polyphony, hauntology, and site-specific, through a scenographic lens
… By engaging with the concept of hauntology as defied by Nicholas Abraham and Maria Torok, where spectres of the past linger through generational trauma and must be acknowledged to move forward, scenographic intervention into site-specific spaces engages and creates alongside a …
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Retro Resonance: The Hauntological Power of Post-Retro Aesthetics in Videogames
… & Fulton, 2010) from recent games, that use hauntology to glean elements of the past to create new experiences and stories. Hauntology is a progressive artistic practice that imagines a better future by salvaging parts of the past (Fisher, 2012, 2014), more nuanced than regressive nostalgia, …
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Envisioning utopia: the aesthetics of black futurity
… queer black vulnerability through a conceptual "hauntology," and Tierra Whack's "Whack World" utilizes black camp as a creative and expansive tool to create worlds that act as a vessel for meaning making. These contribute to an analysis of how music, performance, and politics intersect and allow …
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Cancel culture: posthuman hauntologies in digital rhetoric and the latent values of virtual community networks
… us—both culturally and informatically. Through hauntology, this study hopes to understand a modern discourse community that is bound by an epideictic framework that specializes in the deconstruction of the individual’s ethos via the constant demonization and incitement of past, current, and …
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A Wound Designates a Subject
… felt. Drawing from theoretical elaborations of hauntology, where the present is understood as structured by both suppressed pasts and unrealized futures, ghostlessness names the absence—or foreclosure—of that temporal disruption. It marks a contemporary condition in which systems oriented toward …
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Orifice of Return
… the theoretical underpinnings of Black feminist hauntology and Toni Morrison's "rememory." Some of these poems are lyrically driven, while others are performance and rhythmically driven— all facing inwards and outwards, aware of the world they exist in.
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Spectralite Et Critique De La Laideur: L'engagement Postcolonial Dans La Litterature en Francais De La Nouvelle Generation D'ecrivains Africains
… postcolonial ""engagement."" Theories such as ""hauntology"" and post-realism can be used to account for some of their writings' main features. To demonstrate this with specific examples, I study individual novels by Simon Njami, Daniel Biyaoula and especially Alain Mabanckou."
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Spectralité et critique de la laideur : l’engagement postcolonial dans la littérature en français de la nouvelle génération d’écrivains africains
… a postcolonial “engagement.” Theories such as “hauntology” and post-realism can be used to account for some of their writings’ main features. To demonstrate this with specific examples, I study individual novels by Simon Njami, Daniel Biyaoula and especially Alain Mabanckou.
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Haunting visions: The refusal of settler-colonial containment in C. Ree’s Dark Water and annie ross’s Pots and Other Living Beings
… been rendered neutral, Ree and ross utilize a hauntology. They alter their audiences’ perception of the spaces they work in, making them aware of the settler-colonial “containers,” or settler-colonial ontologies, that frame how these spaces are understood. Dark Water and Pots and Other Living …
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Bonded: Legacies of Captivity and Fugitivity from Enslavement to Incarceration in the Cape
… uses theorisations of marronage, fugitivity, and hauntology to posit novel understandings of the links between runaway slaves (‘droster1 gangs') and the contemporary ‘Coloured' criminal figure. This dissertation approaches the latter as engaged in traditions of opacity-making, initiated by the …
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The development of counter-surveying as a methodology to document forced removals: case studies of District Six and Die Vlakte
… archival research, site visits, interviews, and hauntology to map forced removal sites. It seeks to document the lives and spaces of those displaced, asking: How can counter-surveying be optimised to capture and document the stories of forced removals? The research centres on ex-residents of …
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Independent Visions of Marginal America: Reimagining a Nation Through Outsiders, Searching, and Non-Arrival
… unsettling of myth is interpreted as a kind of hauntology, as the ‘haunting’ or persistence of violence and myth is analyzed.</p>
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Hauntological Warfare: Explorations in Propaganda, Influence Campaigns, and Online Affect
… and spectral means. Drawing from concepts like hauntology, psychological operations (PsyOps), and disinformation aesthetics, I examine how propaganda does not simply vanish once its immediate goals are achieved, but instead lingers—reshaping memory, identity, and cultural narratives through what …
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Hauntological Videogame Form: Nostalgia and a "High Technology" Medium
… problem with the medium. By expanding upon hauntology, as used by Mark Fisher and Simon Reynolds to examine the state of popular music, the thesis will use this to identify what is happening to the current form of videogames and why. The scope of the thesis is concerned with the current …
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Seeing ghosts: The absented presence of black lesbian women in mid-2000s Kwa-Thema and the legacies of trauma
… demonic and geographic knowledges, and Gordonic hauntology leads me to the potential answers: what the process of seeing and witnessing allows as a Thirdspace for the hope of arriving at joy. This project is an exploration of what is absent and absented yet simultaneously present, and how it …
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HOME DEPO[R]T: [Un]Documented nostalgia and memories in Vietnamese/American diasporic stories at the center of [Re]Alienation
… displacement, resettlement, ghosts, pervasive hauntology, ethnomusicology, and colonialism.
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The Rhythm of Our Lives: Popular Music and Cultural Memory in the Age of the Internet and Retro Culture
… (1961) ‘structures of feeling’, the concept of hauntology and a soft technological determinism. This framework is used to interpret the empirical data emerging from thirty-eight semi-structured interviews conducted with a cross-generational sample of male and female fans of older popular music …
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