ZOMBIE: Somnambulists, Body Snatchers, Elixir Bearers, Wizards, Hypnotists, Poltergeists, Demon Masters, and Witch Covens all inhabit the shadowed realms of sugar, rubber, and cotton plantations, hidden deep within the ghettos of every outpost in the vast, dark expanse of the Imperial world. “But if the commodity-form is not, presently, use-value, and even if it is not actually present, it affects in advance the use-value of the wooden table. It affects and bereaves it in advance, like the ghost it will become, but this is precisely where haunting begins. And its time, and the untimeliness of its present, of its being ‘out of joint’. To haunt does not mean to be present, and it is necessary to introduce haunting into the very construction of a concept. Of every concept, beginning with the concepts of being and time. That is what we would be calling here a hauntology. Ontology opposes it only in a movement of exorcism. Ontology is a conjuration” (Derrida, p. 202)

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ZOMBIE: Somnambulists, Body Snatchers, Elixir Bearers, Wizards, Hypnotists, Poltergeists, Demon Masters, and Witch Covens all inhabit the shadowed realms of sugar, rubber, and cotton plantations, hidden deep within the ghettos of every outpost in the vast, dark expanse of the Imperial world. “But if the commodity-form is not, presently, use-value, and even if it is not actually present, it affects in advance the use-value of the wooden table. It affects and bereaves it in advance, like the ghost it will become, but this is precisely where haunting begins. And its time, and the untimeliness of its present, of its being ‘out of joint’. To haunt does not mean to be present, and it is necessary to introduce haunting into the very construction of a concept. Of every concept, beginning with the concepts of being and time. That is what we would be calling here a hauntology. Ontology opposes it only in a movement of exorcism. Ontology is a conjuration” (Derrida, p. 202)

Artists

Kandis Williams

Date

2024

Medium

paper, collage, color aid and adhesive on wood

Dimensions

66 x 47 inches

Accession Number

2025.45

Credit Line

Justin Smith Purchase Fund, 2025