Hauntology

A specter haunts contemporary culture - the specter of modern French philosophy. Indeed, the main purpose of modern French philosophy is to provide experimental artists with convoluted justifications for their tedious tape loops, unwatchable films and dreary color splodge collages, and it has been an unedifying, ignominious descent from salon and Sorbonne to sweaty, feedback-filled subterranean art space ever since. Yet no modern French philosopher, no matter how creatively obtuse he may be, has ever furnished us with a theory explaining why experimental musicians, filmmakers and painters have continued conducting the same dismal experiment for so many, many years despite the obvious fact that the experiment has already been proven to be a dismal failure by all those experimental artists who have experimented with it before them. Fortunately, like fraudulent psychics summoning their inscrutable Indian spirit guides, experimental artists can always contact the Ouija Board of modern French philosophy to find a suitably obfuscating excuse for their self-important projects.
The dubious authority most often cited is Jacques 'Deconstruction' Derrida, whose work strikes me as an unassailable fortress of nonsense hidden inside a dense fog of waffle at the best of times. His 'Specters of Marx,' for example, positions Karl Marx firmly on the battlements of Shakespeare's Elsinore when the ghost of Hamlet's father appears, and equates the author of 'The Communist Manifesto' with the author of the play that will catch the conscience of the king. But surely Richard III's haunted tent on Bosworth Field is a more fittingly supernatural Shakespearian environment for Marx, with all the spectral victims of Mao and Stalin disturbing his concentration as he labors over the ideas that will ultimately lead to their deaths. Alas, although modern French philosophy takes itself very seriously, it doesn't want to get that serious.
As time goes by, of course, more ghosts gather in the studio seances of the art world, doomed to wander the Earth in search of the perfect simulacrum of a reference of a meaning of a hypothesis.

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