{"id":117,"date":"2015-07-05T13:31:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T17:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/?p=117"},"modified":"2015-07-05T13:31:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T17:31:37","slug":"from-ghostly-matters-haunting-and-the-sociological-lmagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"From Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological lmagination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153How do we reckon with what modern history has rendered ghostly?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201dAvery F. Gordon,\u00c2\u00a0<em>Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological lmagination<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gordon explains that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153[t]he ghost is not simply a dead or missing person, but a social figure, and investigating it can lead to that dense site where history and subjectivity make social life. The ghost or the apparition is one form by which something lost, or barely visible, or seemingly not there to our supposedly well-trained eyes, makes itself known or apparent to us.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0Most importantly, seeing ghosts gives us the experience of being haunted, and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153haunting is a very particular way of knowing what has happened or is happening. Being haunted draws us affectively, sometimes against our will and always a bit magically, into the structure of feeling of a reality we come to experience, not as cold knowledge, but as transformative recognition.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0(8)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153How do we reckon with what modern history has rendered ghostly?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201dAvery F. Gordon,\u00c2\u00a0Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological lmagination Gordon explains that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153[t]he ghost is not simply a dead or missing person, but a social figure, and investigating it can lead to that dense site where history and subjectivity make social life. The ghost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,23,35,33,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-studies","category-dwelling","category-mourning","category-passages","category-spectral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windingsheet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}