História e Verdade(s), vol. 23

JOSÉ A. BRAGANÇA DE MIRANDA
From the experience of spectres to the spectralization of experience.

This article attempts to inquire about the reasons for the return of the "spectral" or "phantasmagorical" category. More than saying that this is a spectral time, that experience has been spectralized, or that, after all, rationalism had an enigmatic and unexpected effect in its will to "control" the spectral, we should rather inquire about the way this image has been essential to perceive experience in its totality as well as the strategy it implies. With a warning: if the "spectral" returns as a problem, it is because something has been deeply changed in the way the power freed by technique is managed today; it is because a generalized disturbance has occurred in the way metaphysical fragmentations charged with the "opening" of existence (which are no longer ours) were stabilized in the previous century.