My investigation deals with the fallout from the broken promises of market capitalism once it emerged as the definitive, ultimate form of human governance; but, more specifically, it deals with that fallout’s spectral consequences, as the absence of a viable alternative unleashed ghosts of both past and future that have haunted Western societies since. The essence of time feels more fractured than ever before.
The two main theories in question are Francis Fukuyama’s concept of the ‘end of history’ and Jacques Derrida’s response to it, drawing from his own theory of différance and coining the term ‘hauntology’ to outline its effects.
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