A list of puns related to "Hauntology (music)"
Maybe it's obvious, but literally nothing truly new is coming out. At least from the big companies. I walk down the street I see Matrix 4 posters everywhere. I look at game trailers, it's all sequels to existing franchises, or game versions of something that already exists. Games only have slightly better graphics, but still almost play the same as games five years ago. There's barely anything truly new coming out anymore. Like Mark Fisher said, everything is based on nostalgia. A dying civilisation. I'm stuck playing old games, watching old movies, seeing how truly innovative they were, even the big budget stuff. What do you think?
I was reading this article, an interview with Retromania's author Simon Reynolds and it made me think: ok trap music is a pastiche, remix of 90s rap music and in a certain way it evokes a faded hope for a future that never came, but it has a lot of non-nostalgica and innovative traits (vocal structure, drums pattern, etc) that in my opinion disrupt this loop of haunted future and nostalgia. Fisher died in 2017, too soon to see trap music exploding worldwide (it is quite symbolic that one of the founder and leader of trap music is Future).
So in my opinion SOPHIE or SHLOHMO are not really anti-hauntological, because their disruption of this loop is not so strong and not so spread. What do you think?
Hello r/Vaporwave! I'm a filmmaker from Vilnius, Lithuania. I have made three short films up to this point and currently I'm working on my fourth one.
If you're interested you can watch one of my films here (don't worry, there are subtitles): https://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/2000176867/odiseja72-trumpametrazis-filmas-detektyvas-riedlentininkas
I have quite huge ambitions for the film I'm currently working on. It's a short story about a girl who gets stuck in one of those "lost futures" that something like Vaporwave makes you reminisce about. While the "real" world drifts away behind her into the void until it disappears completely.
Anyways, I'm hoping you fellas could help me out with any decent books, journals, essays, academic works, films, clips, comics, mangas, psychology/philosophy books, etc. about vaporwave aesthetic, hauntology, nostalgia, sentimentalism and the feeling all of us here know very well. Something you seen/read that made you feel THAT way. My goal is to be able to evoke this kind of feeling throughout the runtime of my film.
Something like an Instagram account similar to Digicam.Love would help me out as well (90s cameras, point and shoots, early CGI, early world wide web stuff, surfing the net on dial-up internet, home made vhs tapes and so on...)
And finally, if you feel like it, just share some stories about your experiences when you yourselves had that vaporwavy feeling between being awake and asleep, nostalgic golden hour sunlight on your face, magical realism type of stuff.
Appreciate any help. Thanks guys!
Hi everyone!
I hope this kind of post is allowed here. I'm doing a little project where I go to different subreddits of music genres and I ask the members what the best album of that genre is. After this, I listen to the album that got the most upvotes after 24 hours and write my thoughts about it (I will write this as a comment under this one, so if you want to read it, make sure to check back in 2-3 days. This won't be a professional review btw. I don't know anything about music theory so it's just gonna be the thoughts of a random guy). The list I'm following is Wikipedia's list of the most popular music genres in a randomized order. I'm planning to listen to one album per day and this time the genre is Hauntology. So please recommend me an album in the comments. It could be the best one in your opinion, your personal favourite, or the album that best represents this genre according to you, but please, only submit one album. If you submit more than one in your comment, it won't count (If you really want to submit more, do it in separate comments). LPs are preferred, but EPs and mixtapes are also acceptable, even compilations and live albums if they're not too long. I don't know anything about this genre so I'm going in blind.
This is the 228th day of me doing this. If you want to see what the previous days were, check out my post history.
Thanks to anyone who recommends an album.
TL;DR: I listen to a new genre every day, so recommend me one album and I'll listen to the most upvoted one and write my thoughts about it later.
I'm looking for electronic music with a dystopian, apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic, or hauntology theme or sound. More so in the realm of (rage) edm, hard trap, and dubstep; something with well-defined bass. I like the direction of "SCP-231" by ATLiens and I was left wishing the rest of the album incorporated that theme, so I'm looking for more!
I have a fair collection of this dystopian style in ambient and drone albums, but want to find more in other electronic subfields.
Hi r/CriticalTheory
I have just published a book which I think is closely related to the concerns of this sub, so I wanted to say hello and introduce my book to you. I would be very grateful to hear your thoughts, and happy to respond to any questions you might have for me. The book is titledΒ The Hauntology of Everyday Life (Palgrave Macmillan), it focuses on human experience and subjectivity from a hybrid point of view somewhere between psychoanalysis, semiotics, philosophy and anthropology. The book is heavily theory-oriented, but I am a cultural anthropologist and a psychoanalytically trained clinician, so the content is drawn from ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews with people ranging from psychotic patients to non-psychotic psychotherapy clients.
For a bit of context, my main curiosity and interest is about human subjectivity and subjective experience βthe way it is formed, and what the sociopolitical implications of that formative process may be. In my earlier work, including a 2015 book titled Meaning, Madness and Political Subjectivity, I have focused on the way cultural and political contexts shape our sense of self and our subjective perceptions of the world, specifically through the organization of systems of power and meaning. I have specifically worked on the idea of "political subjectivity" in my earlier work, while this new book is meant to serve as a theoretic platform for two main issues that I will be working on in the coming years, namely political justice, and networked subjectivity.
I am convinced that a shift in our understanding of human subjectivity from an ontological model to a hauntological one is extremely important for making our social and critical theories more in-tune with contemporary and upcoming physical/technological conditions of our lived worlds, including both rapidly emerging new physical/technological paradigms and almost as rapidly emerging new social and political paradigms. My main goal in this book is to explain and share that understanding -or at least to set up a clear platform for that idea. The fate of subjectivity in the networked environment of virtual objects in a virtual space; and the need for a hauntological interpretation of justice and the sociopolitical mechanisms of pursuing it are two distinct yet intrinsically related issues the writing of this book has brought me to, and which I intend to follow in the coming years.
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... keep reading on reddit β‘I'm not an expert in Derrida and hence asking some help! Im particularly thinking this in the argued context of 'lost futures' and 'capitalist totality' (Fisher, Jameson etc..). Can a ghost be a reminder of otherness that is beyond the capitalist totality? Or does Derrida's hauntology imply a past that is too ungraspable and elusive to provoke any ruptures to the present?
Thanks!
Aside from Spectres of Marx and Mark Fisher, along with some articles here and there, I havenβt been so lucky in a search of texts in this area. Does anyone have any recommendations?
The Baffler has a really interesting short piece up on Edith Wharton's ghosts https://thebaffler.com/latest/edith-whartons-hauntology-hanson . (I subscribe, but I don't think this is pay-walled. But I can never tell because The Baffler's log-in/archive navigation is sort of bewildering. Which, as someone who has been a Baffler/Tom Frank fanboy since Jay Z claims to have started building his totally real drug empire, I find totally unsurprising.)
Not really a philosophy major or anything, but, I find both concepts pretty useful to describe the postmodern condition of my old, dying rustbelt Rustbelt city. The only problem is, I don't know what the relationship is between the two. I know that C.R. is essentially the internalized belief since history has "stopped", it's impossible to imagine living in a world other than capitalism. But, if I'm not mistaken, hauntology borrows on the theme of the "slow cancellation of the future" as well? It's answer to the predicament is to return to the past to see how the future was imagined by past minds to recuperate the ability to have a future. Mark Fisher's C.R. does have a call to action against the erosion of tomorrow too, but his answers are to challenge the status quo by highlighting the contradictions that exist today.
Am I wrong or missing something? I'd love an answer to this since I find both of these concepts pretty illuminating and even inspiring.
Here are my reference points for the topics:
hi im doing a project on male gender roles and how neoliberal economy has made it harder to have a normal stable life of the past. was wondering if anyone here would be interested in sharing their thoughts on that? im posting this on hauntology cause i believe this recent trend of "tradwife" or 80s nostalgia and even rise in deppression/anxiety all comes back to loss of purpose because of a neo-liberal economy. Which is exactly what mark fisher describes in ghosts of my life, how the futures he was promised never came and how the aspirations of society at large are stuck in nostalgia,
u can either direct message me or just leave a comment below thank you!!
Please donβt recommend his other projects, nor the ones under his other aliases. Iβve heard it all :D
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