Posts tagged Stefan Grabiński

Analog Horror and Nostalgia

This is explicitly a function of nostalgia, but it is nostalgia had second-hand, where the original object is eerily absent, decontextualized and beginning to run down like William Basinski’s Disintegration Loops, where the original recordings were physically destroyed in the process of transferring them over.

Analysis, Literary Theory, Very Online, Written by: CameronCameron SummersSeptember 27, 2023Analog Horror, Stefan Grabiński, William Basinski, Mark Fisher, Grafton Tanner, Colin Dickey, Kane Pixels, Twin Peaks, The Backrooms, Poltergeist, Oxenfree, Kris Straub, Public Access (RPG) Comment

A Spectrum of Haunting

Rereading it in preparation for the class, I was struck by a simple but surprisingly deep question: what does it mean for something to be haunted? Not on the surface, but as part of a deeper cultural question. What does it make sense to think of as being haunted?