Stephen Davismoon

On Hauntology in Music and Musical Hauntings

In music critic Mark Fisher’s Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology + Lost Futures, he asks, ‘why hauntology?’ (Fisher 2022, 16). In the 2022 introduction to the second edition of F...

Ghostly Variations

The philosophical ideas of hauntology that grew from the seeds sown in Specters of Marx have often focused upon a deep sense of loss, or a profound nostalgia for societal futures that—with the seeming defeat of Marxist ideologies at the tail-end of the 1980s and early 1990s—would...