The Metaphysics of Crackle

Afrofuturism and Hauntology

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ID3879029
AuthorsMark Fisher (0000-0001-5827-6147, University of East London, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume5
Issue2
Pages42-55
Publication date2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDancecult (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1947-5403 • E-ISSN: 1947-5403
PublisherMaynooth University (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.12801/1947-5403.2013.05.02.03
OpenAlexW2047500477
LanguageEN
Citations received42
References cited6

There has always been an intrinsically "hauntological" dimension to recorded music. But Derrida's concept of hauntology has gained a new currency in the 21 st century, when music has lost its sense of futurism, and succumbed to the pastiche-and retrotime of postmodernity. The emergence of a 21 st century sonic hauntology is a sign that "white" culture can no longer escape the temporal disjunctions that have been constitutive of the Afrodiasporic experience since Africans were first abducted by slavers and projected from their own lifeworld into the abstract space-time of Capital. Time was always-already out of joint for the slave, and Afrofuturism and hauntology can now be heard as two versions of the same condition

Epistemology · Metaphysics · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Philosophy · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction

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