Hauntology
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In its origins hauntology is Jacques Derrida’s neologism which is, in French, a pun on ontology and refers to the paradoxical state of the specter, which is neither being nor non-being.
No doubt the term goes back to 1848 when Marx and Engels stated “A spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre of Communism.” Haunting is about ghost, and one of the first people to use the word in a musical context was David Toop’s Haunted Weather : Music, Silence, and Memory (2004); but before Toop ther was Ian Penman in ‘[the Phantoms of] TRICKNOLOGY [versus a Politics of Authenticity]’ in The Wire from 1995).
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