Hauntologist

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A theorist of hauntology. uncommon

    "Hauntologists suggest that the contemporary culture is more generally shaped by an unsettling temporal dislocation, a tendency to loop back to troubled, unresolved past events, and to experience recurring dreams of futures-lost. Time, as hauntologists have it, ‘is out of joint’."

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"Hauntologists suggest that the contemporary culture is more generally shaped by an unsettling temporal dislocation, a tendency to loop back to troubled, unresolved past events, and to experience recurring dreams of futures-lost. Time, as hauntologists have it, ‘is out of joint’."

Etymology

From hauntology + -ist.

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