This article examines the concept of hauntology, from Jacques Derrida and Marxism to contemporary painters (Doig, Richter, Tuymans) and musicians (Ariel Pink, Ghost Box), and explains how hauntology is applied to art in different layers (utopian and deconstructive).

If the hauntological effect would work without the utopian/anti-utopian layer? Could the relation to the past be neutral/objective? How past is different from the history? What constitutes eeriness in relation to the past?

This article can be connected to the questions of the relations between past and present, how the one affects the other, how memory works, how nostalgia works.

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