hauntology is a generation being "haunted" by the media messaging we were exposed to by deviant hippies who infiltritated the BBC etc
there was a political component to that - the dream of the welfare state etc
but by and large the politics (and the crowleian stuff) was a subset of the...
i found out that apparently that's the cutting edge of psychiatric thinking nowadays too.
in the bipolar model the bliss state has always been bound to the etheric state - and on the other hand the state of distress to the etheric.
but the new thinking is that there are two separate axes. you...
no the whole ghosts thing - just like the UFO thing - is a psychic event - just as the heavenly sentiments of the rock scene were a psychic event. both psychotic/manic aspects of it were differently prismatised reflections of the same "etheric" drift OUT away from the ground.
something like...
as a cultural event/effect i gotta say i think the whole hauntology "specters of marx" thing makes much more sense as "specters of the counterculture"
that's to say a coming to terms with the failure of that countercultural psychic project to build a bridge into space - the promise of that...
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