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haunting of and by Marxist political thought, hauntology shares its lineage with a number of “endist” writings that emerged between the late 1970s and early 1990s’ (Thurgill 2020 : 45). As the writer Mark Fisher claims: ‘Haunting can be seen as intrinsically resistant to the contraction and homogenization of time and space. It happens when a place is stained by time, or when a particular place becomes the site
( Edinburgh : Bannatyne Club , 1827 ), p. 203 . 44 Ibid . 45 Ibid. , p. 204. For more on such political prophecies, see Michael B. Riordan, ‘Scottish political prophecies and the crowns of Britain, 1500–1840’, Chapter 7 this volume. 46 Robert Pont , A Newe Treatise ( Edinburgh , 1599 ). 47 Ibid. , title page. Cf. Arthur H. Williamson , ‘Number and national consciousness: the Edinburgh mathematicians and Scottish political culture at the Union of the Crowns’ , in Roger A. Mason (ed.), Scots and Britons: Scottish Political Thought and the Union
). Sliwinski , Sharon ( 2017 ), Dreaming in Dark Times: Six Exercises in Political Thought ( Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press ). Weaver , Caity , ‘Why Am I Having Weird Dreams Lately?’ , New York Times (13 April 2020), [Online], [accessed 20 February 2022], available from: www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/style/why-weird-dreams-coronavirus.html
, these are the pertinent questions posed in Sharon Sliwinski’s recent volume Dreaming in Dark Times: Six Exercises in Political Thought ( 2017 ), at the heart of which is an examination of the political capacity of the dreams. Distinguishing between two fundamentally different yet equally political oneiric forms – the ‘dream-as-text’ and the ‘dream-as-dreamt’ – Sliwinski demonstrates the importance of dream-life as a means of challenging
as an expressly political act in Dreaming in Dark Times , where the author draws upon Beradt’s dream collection and other cultural texts to elevate the status of oneiric episodes as important ‘species of political thought’ with which to work through inimical political environments (Sliwinski, 2017 : 119). I focus specifically on Sliwinski’s discussion of the fact that, while Beradt saw dreams of the Third Reich as evidence of the
. The men patronized her, they thought nothing of her capacity for political thought … There is a type of mind, like Willi’s that can only accept ideas if they are put in the language he would use himself … [S]he grew uneasy and appealed: ‘I’m not saying right, but you see what I mean…’ Because she had appealed, the men were restored, and Willi said
; or , The Modern Prometheus (The 1818 Text) . Oxford University Press , 1994 . Sliwinski , Sharon . Dreaming in Dark Times: Six Exercises in Political Thought . University of Minneapolis Press , 2017 . Smith , Andrew . Gothic Radicalism: Literature, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis in the Nineteenth Century