Curated by Abodid Sahoo
Research papersI keep coming back to.
Written by their respective authors, not by me. Collected here for their connections to autoethnography, photography, grief, memory and human emotions.
The reading shelf
Hauntology
Explores how temporally disjointed aesthetics, such as (re)photographs, impact secondary students' constructions of historical knowledge and thinking. Uses posthuman concepts (assemblage, rhizome, hauntology) and visual methodologies like photo-elicitation.
An editorial that discusses locating the human subject's experience not just within the body but as dispersed across social and symbolic networks of power, and often confined to a "temporal now." The piece introduces the concepts of ghosts, haunting, and "Hauntology" to address these limitations.
Defines and discusses the concept of "Hauntology," noting its resurgence prompted by musical artists whose work sounded "ghostly." It identifies hauntology's key feature as its confrontation with a cultural impasse.