hauntologist
English
editEtymology
editFrom hauntology + -ist.
Noun
edithauntologist (plural hauntologists)
- (uncommon) A theorist of hauntology.
- 2022, Maria Mellins, Sarah Moore, editors, Critiquing Violent Crime in the Media, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 121:
- Hauntologists suggest that the contemporary culture is more generally shaped by an unsettling temporal dislocation, a tendency to loop back to troubled, unresolved past events, and to experience recurring dreams of futures-lost. Time, as hauntologists have it, ‘is out of joint’.