Ghosts, Spectres, Revenants: Hauntology as a Means to Think and Feel Future
<p>Hauntology as a successful academic concept holds a pun on the idea of ‘ontology’. It denotes a temporal nonlinearity, the persistence and lingering of failed, of omitted, often utopian, ideas that also formed radical visions of futures and opens a field to discuss presence and absence, visibility and invisibility. The present we live is embedded in the presence of ghosts and specters, and the traces of imaginations of different times and spaces may become visible and doable. The scholars and artists contributing to this volume discuss these conceptual outlines in a series of transdisciplinary contributions. Art in its various forms is the integral part of these hauntological engagements.</p>
Editors: Katharina Fink, Nadine Siegert, Marie-Anne Kohl
Contributors: Henriette Gunkel, Esther Peeren, Alexandra Kuhnke, Lena Naumann, Ute Fendler, Danillo Barata, VES_OFF, Shoutlove, Marie-Anne Kohl, Simon Vincent, Mahamat Zene Ibrahim Youssouf, Nthato Mokgata, Spoek Mathambo, Ingrid Lafleur, Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja, Silvia Bier, Jörg Skriebeleit, Wanelisa Xaba, Kolade Igbasan, Renzo Baas, Raimi Gbadamosi
Design: Karl-Heinz Best
Proofreader: Emily McDermott, Helena Rittler, Paula Krapp