Some Thoughts on Haunting and Futurity

Abstract

What follows are some reflections on the theme haunting and futurity. 1 I‟ll start by summarizing the terms with which I was thinking about „the future‟ directly and incipiently in my book Ghostly Matters (2008a). The general orientation I took there and then pursued subsequently in some writing I did on the utopian remains a guide in the work I‟ve been doing for some time now on imprisonment and captivity. It‟s to the question of what futurity might mean for those prisoners subject to the social death sentence that I‟ll then turn.