As I said, I spoke to my children about this - they were born between 1989-1996, so grew up with technology, in the villageThe Changes, a BBC show from 1975 is another one of those strange, apocalyptic children’s series. It starts with everyone in Britain going mad and destroying all their machinery and electrical equipment and returning to a more primitive existence, complete with accusations of witchcraft. At the end, it’s all about balance and not being able to return to old times and leaving the past very much where it is.
For me, this is what hauntology is about. The feeling of a past one can never go back to and was never really as it appeared in the first place. A yearning to relive the simple joys of my youth now reveals a massive dislocation with the past and I’ll never be able to think of it the same way. The little mining town I grew up in changed so quickly as I was growing up. The collieries closed, the architecture changed and the community became more isolated and divided among themselves. The filter I now have to deal with is viewing it through the lens of progress and what’s happened since. Instant communication, next day deliveries and the distractions of the internet, The creation of a new lexicon of belief and gender in which I struggle to relate.
Of course this concept is as old as time itself and I guess I’ll just have to live with the fact that things moved too fast and those feelings can never be fully experienced again.
I'm giving it a listen. It's very much in the style of many haunting old tunes, but I supposed I'd hoped to hear something familiar. To me, part of hauntology is that it's stuff that's haunted your memory. Some of it's good though. Not party music.Just seen on Spotify that there is a Hauntology playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX9TOdl0GpvQm
Last nearly seven hours, and features 100 tracks. Certainly looking forward to playing this.
Like the feeling you get when you hear the theme tune to a TV programme that you'd almost forgotten existed and thought you must have dreamed?I'm giving it a listen. It's very much in the style of many haunting old tunes, but I supposed I'd hoped to hear something familiar. To me, part of hauntology is that it's stuff that's haunted your memory. Some of it's good though. Not party music.
If you have any memories of landmarks etc in Bury SE from your vision, Mr Carl Grove (damn fine chap from there who's on here) would like to hear you story.When I was younger I felt a curious 'pull' towards Bury St Edmonds. Never been there, never even been close, but I had the vision of driving there in a Mini with a German Shepherd dog in the back.
The feeling faded once I got into my late twenties. I've still never been.
My vision was just of low lying roads surrounded by fields of an unspecified crop. No hedges.If you have any memories of landmarks etc in Bury SE from your vision, Mr Carl Grove (damn fine chap from there who's on here) would like to hear you story.
Ps. Window?
That's an awful lot of words to say 'shipwrecks be spooky'...View attachment 48561
Within going into detail, there are a few warning signs that this might be a bit of an exercise in... hollow postmodern obscurantism; nevertheless, I'm sold on the subject matter being worthy.
Preview (which gives a taste of the potentially good and bad):
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Much longer preview here:
https://assets.ctfassets.net/4wrp2u...dec057267148a401611/9789048543823_Preview.pdf
Publisher's blurb:
Drawing on a broad theoretical range from speculative realism to feminist psychoanalysis and anti-colonialism, this book represents a radical departure from traditional scholarship on maritime archaeology. Shipwreck Hauntography asserts that nautical archaeology bears the legacy of Early Modern theological imperialism, most evident through the savior-scholar model that resurrects—physically or virtually—ships from wrecks. Instead of construing shipwrecks as dead, awaiting resurrection from the seafloor, this book presents them as vibrant if not recalcitrant objects, having shaken off anthropogenesis through varying stages of ruination. Sara Rich illustrates this anarchic condition with 'hauntographs' of five Age of 'Discovery' shipwrecks, each of which elucidates the wonder of failure and finitude, alongside an intimate brush with the eerie, horrific, and uncanny.
Source:
https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463727709/shipwreck-hauntography