spectrality

is the flavor of the symbiotic real, where everything is what it is, yet nothing coincides exactly with itself

spectrality is the flavor of the symbiotic real, where everything is what it is, yet nothing coincides exactly with itself. Communist thought needs to embrace the spectral and figure out exactly what comprises it: not spirits in a divine realm, even if that realm has been relocated in the human—that’s the concept of Humanity.

is a word reserved for something nonhuman, including the “nonhuman” aspects of ourselves.

Spectrality is nonhumans, including the “nonhuman” aspects of ourselves.

is a very precise ontological category, not just a haze that makes anything metaphysical impossible.

Spectrality isn’t just an ineffectual aesthetic flicker on top of a mechanical bumping about of flavorless reality cakes. Spectrality is a very precise ontological category, not just a haze that makes anything metaphysical impossible.

is exclusive possession of human being, rather, Humankind is flickering, displaced from itself, ec-static, rippling and dappled with shadows.

But in the view I’m exploring here, there is a perfect overlap between potential and actual. What I’m saying here is that the actual lens is open, spectral, ambiguous, as a condition of possibility for its being a good-enough lens (and good-enough is as good as it gets). Spectrality, the way a thing keeps exceeding itself, or is displaced from itself, or is ecstatically outside itself (ekstasis, “ex-sistence”), doesn’t just belong to human being, as Heidegger thought. Humankind is flickering, displaced from itself, ec-static, rippling and dappled with shadows. Shadows made not only by some other entity interacting with it, like the sun through the trees, but shadows that are an intrinsic part of the thing.

is the way a thing keeps exceeding itself, or is displaced from itself, or is ecstatically outside itself (ekstasis, “ex-sistence”).

spectrality, n.All

spectrality