radiant fracture

hauntology

I need to do some more reading on the concept, as it's such a beautiful word but I'm not 100% sure how everyone is using it, except as I've specified for Munoz, (I know nothing of Fisher's use re: music!) -- so your thoughts on it are really useful.

I'm also interested in reading Mark Fisher's books Ghosts of My Life and The Weird and the Eerie so if you do end up reading and posting about them I will be following along.

Hurray! It sounds like that will probably happen in some form. So far I find Fisher much more transparent and readable than Munoz, and (also so far) informed by a narrower range of theorists, which I think makes him quite a bit more accessible. (But so far is not very far.)

seeing someone doing philosophy about this exact thing is blowing my mind a little bit.

I'm reading Fisher on weird fiction and same same.

This makes me think that Muñoz brings in hauntology to utopia to say that the queer past's "lost futures" aren't dead ends and that even if utopias of the past have become some kind of "lost futures" they still have something to offer us in shaping the real future.

That makes sense! Thank you. I think I was applying too narrow a definition of hauntology based on the brief sketch Munoz gives.