hauntologist

English

Etymology

hauntology +‎ -ist

Noun

hauntologist (plural hauntologists)

1. (uncommon) A theorist of hauntology.
   • 2022, Maria Mellins, Sarah Moore, editors, Critiquing Violent Crime in the Media, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 121:

     Hauntologists suggest that the contemporary culture is more generally shaped by an unsettling temporal dislocation, a tendency to loop back to troubled, unresolved past events, and to experience recurring dreams of futures-lost. Time, as hauntologists have it, ‘is out of joint’.