... common liberalist accounts of the PRC. On a world stage of global reading communities, the tethering of the village ghost to coordinates of apparently knowable historical time pairs with the author’s ambiguous position vis-à-vis the formal sign of unknowability—censorship. The text, the (partially...

... scholars have called the Anthropocene. For Anne McClintock, the Anthropocene is an epoch of ghosts. Our present is haunted by the past and destined to haunt all our tomorrows. 14 These ghosts are waiting to be acknowledged and recognized, in order to animate forgotten histories and envision alternative...

.... ___________________ Excerpt from “Calling the Ghosts: A Conversation between Bouchra Khalili and Omar Berrada,” published in The Tempest Society (London: Book Works, 2019). 202 pages. Following The Tempest Society (2017), the original video installation commissioned for documenta 14, which took Athens as a site...

... the colonial archive that fails in bringing out the story of the murdered woman, but oral history that fails as well. Silence comes between the narrator, who drives an Israeli vehicle on an Israeli paved road, and the old Bedouin woman walking on a dust road. The latter's presence is like that of a ghost...

... of the past congealed into the present, their temporal weight pressing into it.” 4 The present could never be the pure present of secularism. Secularism could not destroy these animate traces, these persisting lifeworlds. They existed less as ghosts from the past than as forms of life within the present...

..., of the ill, and of the aged. Here, too, there are tendencies of an eventual displacement by affective robots. Place disappears, yet lingers like a ghost. Neither invisible, nor operational. The dockyards, and their neighborhoods, haunt capitalism. Everywhere, Capital faces the accumulation of its...

..., animated by the time of the specter, that ghost or Thing that comes from the past for the future and whose radical untimeliness refuses fixed spatiotemporal location, singular being, closed endings, and certain knowledge. 7 My approach in this essay takes up these impulses to gather, to track...

... but become powerful icons in their deaths. They, perhaps, are ghost presences. However, Rohith rejected this rejection, willfully, through his death. Rohith Vemula wrote in his un -departing note (and I repeat) that for some birth is a curse; and his birth is a fatal accident. Is there any birth...

.... In another sense, if I were the 26 Translator s note: Nichanian s use of the term revenant ( ghost, specter, or, literally, that which comes back alludes to the work of Jacques Derrida. See, for example, Derrida, Living On. 27 Bataille, Inner Experience, 65. Forthcoming in Critical Times...

.... In 2018, Puerto Rico is a country full of ghosts. 4 We do not know how many of us have left, nor are we sure where they have gone. It does not seem that we can discern whether the wind took them or they flew away, too tired from sliding down the slope that the country was on. We do not know if any...

... or competition by a new cast representing an alien culture which possesses one like a ghost.” The “Indian mind,” said Bhattacharya, has “subsided below the conscious level of culture” for (Western) educated men and operates only at the level of family life and in some social and religious practices. Meanwhile...

... “buried alive, written into the book of the dead, but knowing he was destined to live.” Once more, he resembles Robinson. Put another way, it's not Selkirk who shapes Robinson but the other way around: it's Selkirk who becomes a living corpse, a ghost, a tale that will become “real” in several different...

... of technology.” 6 Until this point, the conceit of intelligent machines had functioned as a ghosting at the edge of reason, expressed largely through metaphysics, philosophy, and artistic practice, and, through these expressions, troubling conceptions of complexity, thought, and value. 7 What...

... not only the denial of life, but also an assault on the very idea that a meaningful life eventually finds dignity in death and its passing. Disappearance then is a form of violence against the future. It immobilizes. Through the negation of life, it openly recruits the haunting memory of ghosts in order...

... embodiment, as a machine-readable ghost, is both ironic and cautionary. The biometric capture of a dissident thinker and body attunes us to the afterlife of racialized histories within new technologies. It also alerts us to the perils of a future that would preclude the very existence of unruly bodies...