I've been greatly enjoying attending Haunted Futures at the Department of Film and Screen Media at University College Cork in Ireland over the past few days (albeit virutally), learning about all kinds of fascinating hauntological, gothic and terrifying realities and spectral fictions and presenting a paper about 'The Changes' (BBC, 1975). Please note that this paper contains spoilers!
(Typing away busily as I 'attended', it helps me to think and to remember, I have around 3,000 words: many new connections).
(I may well try to attend in person next year to turn the experiential dial up from five to, let's say, eleven - though a friend suggests that for maximum hauntology, I should "go a week early and just leave crackly VHS recordings and Polaroids of yourself around the place." Yes!)
It's been my first time attending an academic conference in the humanities and, you know, they're not at all like those David Lodge novels I read as a teenager.
Literary/ humanities academia is one significant 'path not taken' for me, though, in terms of what I chose in my late teens and early twenties - no-one fulfils all of their potential(s), this is one existential reality with which we must all reckon - so, you know, 'ghosts'.
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