HAUNTED

This place is haunted. This place is haunted by your ghost.

Hauntology is a prevalent theme—of course, we harken back to a sound from decades ago; we look at the ghosts of our past that subsume our current reality. Do these ghosts exist solely in the past and appear as a trace of a memory? Or do these ghosts exist at all?

“Ghosts arrive from the past and appear in the present. However, the ghost cannot be properly said to belong to the past.... Does then the 'historical' person who is identified with the ghost properly belong to the present? Surely not, as the idea of a return from death fractures all traditional conceptions of temporality. The temporality to which the ghost is subject is therefore paradoxical, at once they 'return' and make their apparitional debut [...] any attempt to isolate the origin of language will find its inaugural moment already dependent upon a system of linguistic differences that have been installed prior to the 'originary' moment”

- Jacques Derrida