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Avery F. Gordon (on Hauntography?)

Earlier today I wrote a small bit about the idea of combining hauntology and ethnography into a practice of hauntography.

I’ve been trying to see if anyone else has done this, and I’ve found the work of Avery F. Gordon.

The very ambitious problem that preoccupied me in Ghostly Matters (and still does) was how to understand and write evocatively about some of the ways that modern forms of dispossession, exploitation and repression concretely impact the lives of the people most affected by them and impact our shared conditions of living.

Source: Gordon, A.F. (2011).  Some Thoughts on Haunting and Futurity.

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