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A Theory of Spectral RhetoricSomebody’s Watching Me: Visor Affect

A Theory of Spectral Rhetoric: Somebody’s Watching Me: Visor Affect [In the opening scene of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the ghost of the dead king parades around the night watch in a suit of armor, terrifying Marcellus, Bernardo, and Horatio. The ghost walking around encased in what is recognized as the armor the king was buried in provokes curiosity and vain attempts to communicate with it. This is related to Hamlet who laments, “My father’s spirit in arms! All is not well.” The appearing of the ghost in armor as a harbinger of bad news (“murder most foul”) leads Hamlet to utter the hauntological phrase, “The time is out of joint.” This time aspect connects the kairotic aspect of spectral rhetoric and its affective quality. We sense something is off in the present moment.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Theory of Spectral RhetoricSomebody’s Watching Me: Visor Affect

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
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978-3-030-69678-8
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49 –57
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10.1007/978-3-030-69679-5_4
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[In the opening scene of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the ghost of the dead king parades around the night watch in a suit of armor, terrifying Marcellus, Bernardo, and Horatio. The ghost walking around encased in what is recognized as the armor the king was buried in provokes curiosity and vain attempts to communicate with it. This is related to Hamlet who laments, “My father’s spirit in arms! All is not well.” The appearing of the ghost in armor as a harbinger of bad news (“murder most foul”) leads Hamlet to utter the hauntological phrase, “The time is out of joint.” This time aspect connects the kairotic aspect of spectral rhetoric and its affective quality. We sense something is off in the present moment.]

Published: Aug 24, 2021

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