Spectral reverberations: A history of the present

In the article that follows, memory and cultural history are folded onto the present to expose their reverberations, their yet unseen and unknown ideational encounters and alliances. In thinking and writing present and past events through one another constitutes fabulation, a parabolic telling that acts on and reverberates the hauntings of the foundational knowledge again and again, yet differently. A past event that repeats differently in the present constitutes time-out-of-joint – that is, a history of the present. The truth and accuracy of such a paradoxical account reverberates virtually as a newly created and different life in which one is no longer held hostage by the hauntings of memory and history.