"In conditions of digital recall, loss is itself lost." "The future didn’t disappear overnight. Berardi’s phrase ‘the slow cancellation of the future’ is so apt because it captures the gradual yet relentless way in which the future has been eroded over the last 30 years." "The word ‘haunt’ and all the derivations thereof may be one of the closest English word to the German ‘unheimlich’, whose polysemic connotations and etymological echoes Freud so assiduously, and so famously, unravelled in his essay on ‘The Uncanny’. Just as ‘German usage allows the familiar (das Heimliche, the ‘homely’) to switch to its opposite, the uncanny (das Unheimliche, the ‘unhomely’)’ (Freud), so ‘haunt’ signifies both the dwelling-place, the domestic scene and that which invades or disturbs it. The OED lists one of the earliest meanings of the word ‘haunt’ as ‘to provide with a home, house.'"

Jani-Matti: Tätä puutarhaa asuttavat monenlaiset aaveet. Toiset tulevat tänne Arts Of Living On A Damage Planet (toim. Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan, Nils Bubandt, 2017) -teoksen kautta, joka käsittelee elämäntaidon jatkumisen mahdollisuuksia vahingoittuneissa ekosysteemeissä käyttäen työkalunaan aaveen ja hirviön metaforia. Inkeri on kirjoittanut teoksesta arvion, jonka voit lukea alla olevasta linkistä.

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PASCALE: I’d like to ask you something. Do you believe in ghosts? DERRIDA: I don’t know, that’s a difficult question. Firstly, would you ask a ghost whether he believes in ghosts? Here, the ghost is me. Given that I’ve been asked to play myself in a film which is more or less improvised, I feel as if I’m letting a ghost speak for me. Paradoxically, instead of playing myself, I let a ghost ventriloquize my words, speak in my place. And it’s that that is maybe most amusing.The cinema is the art of ghosts. And I believe that the cinema, when it’s not boring, it’s the art of allowing ghosts to come back. That’s what we’re doing right here. Therefore, if I’m a ghost, meaning if right now, believing that I’m speaking with my own voice, it is precisely because I believe that it’s my own voice that I allow it to be taken over by another’s. Not just any other voice, but that of my own ghosts. So ghosts do exist. And it’s they who will answer you. Perhaps they already have. All this, it seems to me, has to be treated in an exchange between the art of the cinema in its most original, unedited form and an aspect of psychoanalysis. Cinema plus psychoa-nalysis equals the Science of Ghosts. You know that Freud, all his life, had to deal with ghosts. [INTERRUPTED BY A TELEPHONE CALL.] DERRIDA: So, that was the phantom voice of someone I don’t know. He could’ve told me any old story. That he’s arrived from the USA and says he knows a friend of mine... Well, what Kafka says about correspondence, about letters, about epistolary communication, also applies to telephonic communication. And I believe that modern developments in telecommunication, instead of diminishing the realm of ghosts, as we might believe, that any scientific or technical thought leaves behind the age of ghosts, the feudal age with its somewhat primitive technology as a certain peri-natal age. Whereas I believe that the future belongs to ghosts and that the modern technology of images, cinematography and telecommunication, enhances the power of ghosts and their ability to haunt us. In fact, it’s because I wished to tempt the ghosts out that I agreed to appear in a film, saying to myself that maybe, maybe we will all have the chance to evoke the ghosts: the ghost of Marx, the ghost of Freud, the ghost of Kafka, the ghost of that American, even yours! I only met you this morning, but to me you’re already permeated by all sorts of phantom figures. So, I don’t know if I believe in ghosts or not, but I say: “Long live the ghosts”. And you, do you believe in ghosts? PASCALE: Yes, certainly... Yes, absolutely... Now I do, absolutely... Now, certainly

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