brief introduction, clarification, and incoherent rambling about the immanent dead

This blog originates from a desire to do something useful and/or interesting with the no-longer-quite-so-fashionable concept of hauntology. It may at times break with that notion (and the dualism it may or may not require) in favor of a new speculative goal: to discover from and/or to impose upon the ghost-concept a more rigorous sort of systematicity, if not actually totality. Hence the simultaneous tribute and thematic break in the worldplay: from ont-/haunt- to eco-/ecto-. If a ghost can be understood as an externality, not only in the ontological and moral sense, but also as an economic externality, then it can be located within the world as part of a set of contradictions - and, more importantly, as a non-external component of a framework that is better capable of comprehending and explaining the ghost than that which externalizes and ignores it. This necessitates a view of ghosts predicated not on the dualist-vitalist view of the ghost as something that both exists and doesn't, but on expanding the category of what is in-the-world to include that which is spectral; in that sense, it may eventually aim for a new materialism that includes the 'immaterial.'