Hauntologist
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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’."
Example
More examples"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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