Anthony Oliver
- Sep 3, 2021
- 1 min read

The Ghosts of Place - Dylan Trigg, Jacques Derrida and hauntology: An obsolete culture?

I've long admired and avidly read Dylan Trigg's works. The Aesthetics of Decay was key in my own post-graduate studies of 2008 - an obsession with mechanical entropy.

Here, he looks in on what Derrida in a jovial mood, called hauntology. Itself, a play on ontology and what he saw as the spectre of Marxism.

Ghosts in the machines perhaps?

Puns abound!

https://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/the-ghosts-of-place/

Recent Posts

See All

Decked- the sublime state of popular sub-culture imagery

A new section in my site references the eclectic images seen on skateboard decks and their reflection of, and connection with street art. I was fortunate enough to be allowed to photograph the collect

'Let's go to the beach' - Paul Virilio and the Littoral

A compulsion to visit/revisit abandoned place (sifting through the relationship between organic and slow mechanical decay of ferrous concrete). Here, Celeste Olalquiaga looks at Virilio's fascination

ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 2021 - New Zealand Garden

Crikey! https://www.ars.nz/home/