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hauntology

noun
/hɔːnˈtɒlədʒi/

Etymology

Borrowed from French hantologie: equivalent to haunt + -ology, and a near-homophone to ontologie (“ontology”); apparently coined by Jacques Derrida in Spectres of Marx (1993).

  1. borrowed from hantologie

Definitions

  1. A concept involving the return or persistence of elements from the social or cultural…

    A concept involving the return or persistence of elements from the social or cultural past.

    • The suspicion is inescapable: part of the reason why hauntology should appeal to us so much now is that, unconsciously, and increasing consciously, we suspect that something has died.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hauntology. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA