What is Hauntology?
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- čas přidán 23. 11. 2020
- In theory this is a video about Spectres of Marx, but it's also an arc trying to render, visually, a sense of loss, of hauntings. Deconstruction is an ending of sorts, yet it's an end haunted by many ends past.
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Sources cited:
Derrida, Specters of Marx (amzn.to/3687c59)
Foucault, Order of Things (amzn.to/3mRp0bq)
Nietzsche, Gay Science (amzn.to/365Pxv7)
Weber, Essays in Sociology (amzn.to/3p3A1sn)
Further Reading:
Spectralities Reader (amzn.to/364CrQ4)
#philosophy #philosophy_of_religion #hauntology #marx #derrida #hamlet
what happened to the derrida and chill video?
So why isn't Derrida a post modernist?
What's your thoughts on Hegelian cultism(religion)/Woke cultism (religion)?
_"Who are you going to call when the sequel comes out?"_
I'm going to call the Spectral-Busters, Baudrillard, Fisher and Zizek.
@Colton Tadisch Max Stirner, European translation of the Savage Theory.
Of course I (with my profile picture) am saying this one, however, your list absolutely misses Max Stirner, the original buster of specters, phantasms, ghosts and illusions of all sorts.
Sequel is Mark Fishers take on Hauntology, calling it now
Hauntology is so great Mark Fisher actually did Hauntology 2
With a sound track of Joy Division and Trickie songs
SAPPHIRE AND STEEEEEEL
Im here for it
The ghosts of my life blew wilder than the wiiiind
“We’d never dress up and do skits cause isn’t no Sesame Street-ass philosophy Chanel”
Shots fired.
Took me like 10 minutes to get it lol
I'm honestly glad it was addressed because it's not only a perfect example of cultural shadowing affect being described but also confirmation he's not becoming Philosophytube or whatever.
For real, i'm tired of that shit
@@Bojoschannel mm yes, Plastic Pills is very devoid of overacting and ~aesthetic~ sure
and then he proceeds to dress up, do skits, and use corny theatrics and poetic fluff
I am writing a master's thesis in philosophy, very much in the analytical tradition. Your videos prevent me from completely burning out and getting tired of philosophy as a whole, so thank you! :)
I'm taking a seminar called "Ghosts in the Machine", and we are reading hauntology this week! This vid could not be more timely haha
What course are you studying?
@@nietzschesmustache9483 Cinema and Media studies
@@sebastienyeung4702 hella cool
@@sebastienyeung4702 are u taking it at uni or is it a public seminar?
@@aldenchan8324 at uni
Didn't understand all of it, but there's a strange aching beauty to the video, especially your depiction of lost futures. Beautiful, especially the ending with Hamlet.
I've been a Marxist for a few years, but I'd never really grasped any critical theory. I'd only read Marx and kropotkin and some other stuff. Since finding your channel a few days ago I've already watched all your videos and read Capitalist realism by Mark Fisher - one of the best books I've ever read. I've just started on the sublime object of ideology but feel it might require more baseline knowledge than I have rn. Just wanted to say before this video goes live that you're making a difference and the vids are gaining traction. Shared to all (three) of my Marxist friends!
What are you now if not a Marxist?
If you liked Capitalist Realism, you may appreciate this video by Mad Blender: czcams.com/video/rPeBEcsmWTY/video.html . I think it's pretty awesome...
Zizek's work is heavily built off of Lacanian psychoanalysis and subsequent conceptions so without knowledge of them his work can be difficult to grasp.
Best video I've seen on Capitalist Realism recently is the one by Epoch Philosophy.
@@tonydouglas7870 Yes!
And this is why our social life is always an incomplete project, built in the ruins of ourselves. Great for us, because that means we will have more of your videos.
I absolutely love this theory. Today is the first time I heard about Hautology tbh, but I feel like it focus on something I have thought similarly related to nostalgia. Often times it is uncomforting to think about the fact that even an instagram post is only an image of a ghost, but we must think thoughts like these in order to recognize our presence in the world and avoiding fantasies of return. It's the awareness of every moment as a haunting. I love it. The feeling I always felt was kind of a constant haunting. What I did 5 mintues ago already feels like a ghost and as time passes all of these ghosts accumulate. Anyways, nostalgia is problematic, and the reason for which it is also toxic when we plunge into without thinking about the absurdity in doing so. We as humans are odd creatures; highly self-aware, yet at the same time unconscious of so many phenomena that is somewhat obvious. Thankfully we have people like Derrida, Heidegger, Deleuze, among many, to help us see what we tend to just ultimately ignore because we are afraid of see a deeper presence. Thanks for your video and explanation! I will definitely be reading some more Derrida and Spectres.
The question might be whether there is indeed a difference between watching "the same movie over and over" and "speaking it". Derrida is quite clear that the former is impossible: each watching or reading is its own writing. There is no undifferentiated repetition and each encounter with a text iterates new memories, experiences, histories. That is the spectral nature of ecriture. We have different machines but the machine itself is nothing new.
Maybe another question is whether the "speak" depends on the "it", the action on the content, or the perfomance on the intention. Or whether it's the other way around. Does the content depend on the medium? Or does the medium foliate the content? Or, probably more importantly, is there a version of "speaking it" that leaves space for a future outside of the prescription to speak? Is there a way that "watching the same movie" is or can become a speaking?
I came from poetry to philosophy and I've always thought the two were inseparable
You forgot to mention how good looking Derrida was!
it's a given 😎
this channel is amazing and criminally underrated. hope it continues to grow in the future
Man, Derrida always gives me a lot of trouble when reading him - this helped a lot, thank you!
Wow, thank you for this video. Really good explanations and fun to watch at the same time!
Absolutely outstanding mate
Awesome video - subscribed! Really given me the push towards reading Specters of Marx, which I’ve been meaning to for years now (You know how it is - one book leads to another, to another, to another. Feel now’s the right time)
Amazing, I'm currently reading Derrida for my dissertation, thank you for this!
Beautiful, thought-provoking video.
Enjoyed the deconstruction skit! + Ending on the Hamlet quote was uber 📖
«Spooky» - probably some guy with a huge forhead
goddamn this is the first vid since I subbed and its pretty much exactly what I've been thinking and reading about in different words. prime content my guy keto up the good work lol.
For some reason i did not get a notification for this one, glad you've reached 20,000 subs!
This may be...incredibly broad...but it seems from Marx to Derrida, the concepts that really get at the heart of deconstructing our consciousness in the most grounded unobfuscated sense, all seem to put a spotlight directly on time itself; particularly on memory either individual or collective/cultural. I feel like Derrida really gets well at all of this precisely utilizing the imagery/apparitions we are so hypnotized by to really get us to ground/reground ourselves in thinking about everything we think about because it all ripples and bounces off of eachother in subtle ways, if that makes sense. The time is out of joint indeed!
You are amazing brotha. Keep it up.
"A ghost marx the absence"
and not even a subtle wink
Evocative treatment of this powerful observation. Please address later some of the challenges to Derrida presented in e.g. Ghostly Demarcations especially that of Negri?
Oswald Spengler's Art critique Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter. Max Stirner's "spooks", have covered this as well. Max was influential to Engles, we come full circle.
Well done! Thank you.
Great video essay.
how do you manage to convey so much in 20 minutes? as a non-philosophy major and someone who cant be around university atm this saves me so much effort and time i would have spent on reading, otherwise. thanks a lot for making this vid
Would be nice if you came back to hauntology with more attention on nostalgia as an idealism, as i think there was plenty to discuss in relation to current political and especially cultural happenings across the west, especially when looking through the lense of Baudrillard and even Riesman. Also, would make a nice accompaniment to the film 'Reminiscence' which looks like it directly deals with nostalgia. Like your stuff btw, only recently found you, but getting through them.
Good stuff - touch on Monseur Dupont's "Nihilist Communism", even if just in your own readings. You're right on the fringes of it here, certain bits of this are implications of Derrida... Dupont is the logical progression, after Fisher.
Haha nice! Ending the video with the last words of the book.
Commenting for the algo so more people see your excellent work.
FIRE AS ALWAYS
This was a good essay. Thanks.
The time is out of joint,-yet it has never NOT been. Memories alone, and ghosts only, are present, perfect, as Proust well knew. Only the MEMORIES induced by Marcel’s Madeleine contained totalities, realities within realities, rhizomatic. The present is the dying aperture that captures and converts sensation into experience, experiences into lives. The present is, paradoxically, more absent than the past recaptured. Heinrich von Ofterdingen, having found, at last, the blue flower, has less than when he had it to find. (A flower in the bush is worth two in the hand.) And he’ll have infinitely more when, having lost it, the memory will bloom as no actual flower.
Nice piece of art
Hi Plastic Pills. Will you do a video on Foucault's archeology?
I didn't understand any of it until the violins started playing. Then, I felt like I started to understand it, but still didn't.
Who you gonna call when the sequel.comes out?
Brilliant.
I loved it. Great approach to a capstone for modern philosophy. Any ideas on a Mark Fisher breakdown to follow? I like him but we're now creeping up to fallible / malleable concepts, so Fisher's project doesn't yet seem much more insightful than your own.
Neat Sidenote: Fisher used Derrida's Presence / Absence concept to describe his Capitalist Realism / Hauntology as 2 sides of one argument either in Ghost of My Past and/or a CZcams lecture.
Round of applause for this spectacular video essay
I'll rewatch this later certainly a lot to chew on. There is significant overlap between hauntology and depression. Yes, we are all ghosts and all of our ideas are dying. But what happens after you give it all up? The sun still rises. Please do not confuse depression with philosophy. I don't think you are, but it's still a precaution all of us should take.
Have you read Mark Fisher? He's pretty much the intersection of those two things.
@@Wolfgang_Amadeus_X_Machina no, because he is the intersection of those two things. What scares me is that he knew Deleuze and still succumbed to despair
I feel it. I feel like we're all going to die fighting for dwindling resources as the waters rise and the storms get worse and the bridges collapse. We're in for real trouble and the scars will last for generations. This doesn't change the question of how I should live my life, as always, my life is an artwork I make out of myself. If I'm going to go into eco-civil-war, I'll go with dignity. A dignity that can't be explained to someone else, that can't be transferred to someone else, that doesn't exist on the same realm as likes on social media. And I will make my bed and lie in it.
It appears my efforts here are on a mark. And while these are all apt turns of phrase for the same haunt, but we might as well keep some humour about it, no?
@@PlasticPills
Oh definitely. I don't automatically buy into the line that if you're not depressed then you aren't thinking straight. What's funny to me is a generation of depressed people on the internet depressing each other and defending it by saying "hey listen it's just the facts speaking for themselves." Yeah well here's a fact for you: you can always tell if a non-perimeter wall is a load bearing wall if it runs perpendicular to the joists of the house, but noooo, they don't care about what it takes to knock down a house, do they?
Just waiting for Plastic Pill's comprehensive breakdown of Vaporwave
If the future is dead, can we be haunted by it ?
You can’t be haunted by something that doesn’t exist. Only by your conception of it.
not only your own conception, but other's conceptions of it. The future Marxism promised was born in the past and died in the past. It haunts because its promise is unfulfilled, like a restless spirit at the margins of existence, so does Marxism reside at the margins of capitalism
Yes. We may call it different things but it would all rhyme with Doubt.
@@rabbyssi4392 What about climate change? That spans our past, present and future
@@mylesjeffers6148 What do you mean, are you asking if climate change is a specter? Climate change was not always man-made. And it was much later after industrial revolution that we started to realize what potential consequences industrialization has for the environment and thus industry itself. So whatever you're asking depends what you mean by "our past" ("the past"? "the past of social consciousness"? "the past of my or your culture"?) I think calling climate change a specter of industrialization (not merely capitalism alone) is sketchy since, as an empirically derived phenomenon, it itself is a non-ideology, but rather is a cause of ideas and ideologies about it. But the idea of man-made climate change and the practice of theorizing responses to it is very much explicitly part of the social consciousness ... these were born in a recent past and still live with us, these never died, and actually they're becoming increasingly alive. The difference with Marxism though is that it 'died' once we saw how attempting to fulfill the promise of Marxist utopia consistently failed. Notice how so few of us are genuine Marxists and how desperately our so-called 'critical politics' needs reform - the practice of critical politics, at least imo, has withered. This is why Marxism haunts us... not quite in the same sense that climate change does.
I often wonder, am I nostalgic for Past Utopia... or embittered with Aborted Future?
This video is excellent!!! Thank you very much! I am new here on PlasticPills, so I don't know if this information is somewhere else (and if it is, I'm so sorry for bothering you), but I (quickly) looked for it and did not find anything: what is your name? I am asking this because you say lots of beautiful, provocative, insightful things and I will probably quote you some time because your work is already haunting my dissertation, so I'd like to do it correctly :) Again, thank you very much!! Best regards from Brazil
Love the takedown of analytic philosophy thrown in the middle - would love to hear more on the relationship of this deconstructive process to Hegel's dialectics
You didn't give us a way out of the spectralizing. We need a way out that does not go into the past or to the future. A way that creates reality only. Or absence only.
The story goes like this
rly dig these videos, but am offering a thought that a better/warmer/more detailed vocal mix would be the icing on the cake, hard to tell if it's a mic issue, or a DI/mixer issue, or what. cheers
okay, i fully cackled at your perfectly-timed doppel-f-bomb drop
Are we living in a simulation of capitalism that's dependent on the myth of progress and the belief in fate?
this video is literally elite
Thank you for making this essay. Really clear explanation.👍
Out of curiosity, are there any transcripts of your videos? I’d like to study them more closely.
Now that's what I call dialectics vol.Derrida!
can i just say i cried because this is so personal-
Great video
Who is Derrida actually referring to in the clip at 10:36?
Philosophy in the 16 century: "QED"
Philosophy in 2020: "DECONSTRUCTED"
I recommend that we explore a new theory of collective intelligence: Encyclogenesis. I would also like to put forward my vision of giving place, the khora, to collective encyclogenic processes.
My understanding is that spectral images are running away with reality, because we lack a framework for media contextualization, critical reading and writing, mutual learning, and co-authorship. I propose that we use distributed graph databases to omni-subjectively map the relationships between media, to value the subjective merit of a text and to give it a place, a relation within a network of texts, a body of reading. Thus, we can co-author holarchical self-representation, and we can create an open search engine by and for the people.
Our media practices do unfold in an interpretive field, as we read and watch. And when we write, we vision a particular interpretive context, the subjective background of reading out of which we produce a new text. However these relations go uncharted in any open critical practice of interpretation.
My theory is that collective intelligence is an organic process that is conducted and sometimes coerced by the forms that are produced in society, our gestures, language, art, architecture, technology, our books, our images. Every expression is a conduit of some intelligence and meanings intended and unintended. This seems in alignment with Debord and Derrida? The reflexive process of reading and writing evokes the spirits of those texts and their spectres into a revitalized conversation. There is a spirituality to this practice of reading of opening to receive and reverberate and sound a note into the creative world intelligence. Isn't this what the great writers have achieved: receiving their inheritance of wisdom into themselves and revitalizing those texts and resounding something unique back into the world?
I believe that we can excite and coordinate this practice of engaging texts into a practice of critical interpretation and contextualization of media into an integrated mediaspace using existing tools like IPFS and Dgraph.
I'll have to watch this one again. And pause every 15 seconds.
This channel is so fucking good
Very well represented
‘GLITCH FEMINISM: A MANIFESTO’ By Legacy Russell (Verso). “This book is for those who are en route to becoming their avatars,” writes Legacy Russell, a dynamic curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem who celebrates the glitch, the slippage that makes machinery malfunction, as a portal to escape the gender binary and social control of the body. Grounded in theory (from Edouard Glissant to Donna Haraway) but a fast, percussive read, her text is also a guide to the growing field of art practices - notably driven by Black and queer creators -- that dissolve the boundary between “internet art” and physical performance, activism and community-building. “Glitch refuses,” she titles one chapter; it also “ghosts,” “encrypts,” but “mobilizes,” and most of all - this is a theory of liberation - “survives.”
i dunno.
What is the "suburban utopia" image that is shown from 8:39 to 8:52?
Can you really talk about the spectacle (and the theory of the separation) in relation with the hauntology since Debord explicitly work with the classical binarity of absence/presence ? Agamben actually manage to do it, but if you're going directly from Debord's work and/or the Anselm Jappe interpretation, i'm like heeee nah. I could be wrong tho. Love your vids xx
Who ya gonna call? Brilliant.
yo this is very good
this is what it must have felt like for every empire that decayed slowly. But its a hopeful thing because it means something new is on its way. I hope that climate change is the new force that drives new perspectives. We should listen to and thank the people who gave us our ideas but we have to come up with our now
also the sound design on this video was pretty nice
I came here via the Rhizome :D
What readings would you suggest on this topic?
I've read "Capitalist Realism" but couldn't help but feel I've missed lots of key subtle points that Fisher made.
(The sources sited below are also valid answers I guess ^^)
Seen this? amzn.to/364CrQ4
@@PlasticPills oh! No I haven't. Thanks a lot! :D
I'll be haunted by this video from now on
Hey man, where´s the Zizek/Peterson podcast? Did you take it down for some reason? It was a good talk
Just in time for my monthly Dose
😋
Reading a lot of Levinas atm and there seems to be a bit of overlap here- Levinas' concept of the Trace marks the distinction between absence and non-existence. Seems like it could have been an inspiration to Derrida
I just read a Derrida biography that talked about Levinas. Derrida thought and wrote a lot about him.
Another spectre
Gustavo Minas's photography captures this so well...on Instagram of course
hi ima ghost and i wanna say i enjoyed this spooky video
What dose "thou art a scholar, speak to it" mean, anyone explains?
Think it’s from Hamlet when they saw the ghost the homie says that to his homie
Speak to the ghosts, Ghosty
whats the melodys name in the beginning?
"merely observers who reproduce" kinda sounds contradictive to me.
This whole concept is built on contradiction
What's that music that sound like string quartet?
When he says 'beginning with being and time', is that a Heidegger reference?
As echoed in the past: History repeating itself; first as tragedy, then as farce.
Watching this on LSD and idk where that puts me 🤷🏽♀️
Great video ! I like derrida analysis except for the desenchtment of the World part. I agree with the thesis of François Gauthier and Bruno Latour that we never were modern. WE are haunted by the ghost of god through the myth that WE are rationally devoid of transcendance when in fact the liberal theology of market is our new transcendance
"impure, impure" - is this akin to how Quentin Tarantino has based many of his films on spectres of other films and yet, in his latest "Once upon a time in Hollywood" he has included reference to spectres in HIS OWN previous films... because he has made enough influential films, he, himself is now "the ghost" in his own haunting?
Derrida seeing the ghost of Marx: oh shit
Marx seeing the ghost of Max Stirner: "holy shit . . . "
I really like that Foucault quote. Maybe I should make it a shirt or something
😂...the spectacle indeed
Hauntology is one of those "now you're just making shit up" sounding terms but that actually turns out to be really profound.
We are nostalgic for a tribal way of life, of all things, as though tribal people wouldn't kill to live in a time with penicillin, central heating, and abundant fat and sugar rich foods.
Being you must be both very fulfilling and exhausting.
What’s spectralization?
I just hope Mark Fisher won't come up
lol
Why not. Fisher is fine as hell.
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I'm new. Why are there so many Indians under this channel? I'm Indian too but I don't get it
@@jackdarby2168 Cause HSS is booming now in India and unfortunately no Indian theory channel is up to the mark.
@@samyamoy I'm new here. Wbat does hss mean?
I don't know what anything yet 😭
1) Love your channel, great explanations and definitely getting me to buy some books on some of these subject matters. Derrida I had gotten into previously just because I went to college and postmodernism, which he isn't even a part of, was such a hot button concept in and outside of it. So excited to get into some of these other psychoanalytical subjects to create a better framework for my own experience.
2) Is the pill a reference to Akira? I just watched it the first time and noticed it and wondered given the anti-capitalist messaging in the film.
3) Ya'll don't need to shittalk other channels, makes you look bad. I'd avoid it. Philosophytube is a great way to be introduced to the topic if theatrics is what you need, by all means, we need more people with a better ability to understand their own mind. I'll take anyone and everyone willing...because it's rough out there.
4) Ya'll keep chugging, it's great content.
"O Lydia, The Tattooed lady..."
Thank you for not wearing that white sleevless shirt.
makes me question what the hell there is left