hauntologist

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English

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Etymology

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From hauntology +‎ -ist.

Noun

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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’.