Abstract

GOMEZ GABRIEL, Núria. Spectropolitic: image and hauntology in the contemporary visual culture. Contratexto [online]. 2020, n.34, pp.153-176. ISSN 1025-9945.  http://dx.doi.org/10.26439/contratexto2020.n034.4871.

In his book Spectres of Marx, Jacques Derrida puts forth the term hauntology (hantologie) as an epistemic turn aimed at thinking about the ways in which technology materializes memory. It stems from the premise that nothing enjoys a purely positive existence and that, as music critic Mark Fisher reminds us in his reflections on depression, everything is possible only on the basis of a series of absences that precede it, surround it and allow it to be coherent and intelligible. This article presents the concept of spectropolitics in order to observe how certain events of late capitalism and financial abstractions reverberate in the collective psyche and transform into spectral apparitions. Far from understanding the obscurantist specter as something real, we understand its presence as a sign or a metaphor of the vision that acts as a clarifying figure with a specifically ethical and political potential. Likewise, the new materialities of the fleeting, fugitive and subjective visuality of our present time (dominated by the Internet and the processes of psychic privatization) question us about the collectivities that are organized in the ways of seeing contemporary societies and in the traces of the underlying power structures.

Keywords : film; visual culture; spectropolitics; tele-technology; techno-tele-discursivity.

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