Archaeologies of the ghost, by Serge Margel
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This review discusses Serge Margel's book, Arqueologias do fantasma: técnica, cinema, etnografia, arquivo(2017). The book is the result of seven conferences held in Brazil between 2015 and 2016 and offers a deep reflection on the transition from the 'society of the spectacle' to the 'spectral society.' It is organized into three sections that explore the ghostification of social relations, where subjects are reduced to mere objects of a discourse devoid of subjectivity. In this context, Margel's work provides a significant analysis of the role of critical theory in a social context marked by ghostification.
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Mateus Sanches Duarte
Mateus Sanches Duarte is a Ph.D. student in Romance Studies at Duke University (Portuguese-Spanish Track). He holds an M.A. in Communication and Culture from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and a B.A. in Social Sciences from the Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), with an exchange program at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM).
He has developed academic research in the areas of urban studies, image theory and contemporary Brazilian cinema, mainly interested in the archeological dimension of the history of cities, seeking to understand how their existences are inseparable from their images. He also produced the short documentary À Margem das Torres (2019) and directed República do Mangue (2020).
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