ASAP/Journal
@asapjournal.bsky.social
ASAP/Journal is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that explores new developments in post-1960s visual, media, literary, and performance arts.
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Finally, Christine Prevas writes on All of Us Strangers: “Haunting distorts the way time and space are meant to be lived—and, in this process, throws into relief the ways in which these same normative temporalities and spatialities organize...[a] life.”
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Haunting Time and Space in All of Us Strangers - ASAP/Review
Two haunted buildings organize Andrew Haigh’s 2023 film All of Us Strangers: the first is a nearly empty tower block on the edge of London; the other, a suburban home in Sanderstead, Croydon. The form...
asapjournal.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Finally, Christine Prevas writes on All of Us Strangers: “Haunting distorts the way time and space are meant to be lived—and, in this process, throws into relief the ways in which these same normative temporalities and spatialities organize...[a] life.”
asapjournal.com/node/hauntin...
asapjournal.com/node/hauntin...
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M. Stang explores the dubious origins of Halloween's most recognizable figure: “The white sheet persists as one of the most common decorative motifs for sale on box store shelves and displayed on front porches across the United States..."
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Through the Eyes of the Sheet and by the Feet of the Ghost - ASAP/Review
A friend recently told me that she discarded childhood photos of herself in a homemade ghost costume. “The way the seams of the sheets lined up over my head looked like a Ku Klux Klan hood,”…
asapjournal.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
M. Stang explores the dubious origins of Halloween's most recognizable figure: “The white sheet persists as one of the most common decorative motifs for sale on box store shelves and displayed on front porches across the United States..."
asapjournal.com/node/through...
asapjournal.com/node/through...
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On Saidiya Hartman and archives, A Banerjee writes: “To be in the archive is to be up against it, with dangerously little room to maneuver. Debilitation in the pursuit of archival discovery appears to itself be the primary discovery afforded by [it].”
asapjournal.com/node/the-arc...
asapjournal.com/node/the-arc...
The Archival Haunt - ASAP/Review
In her essay “Venus in Two Acts,” Saidiya Hartman likens the archives of transatlantic slavery to a violent and defining death of the Black enslaved. The empirical record of the archives of slavery th...
asapjournal.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
On Saidiya Hartman and archives, A Banerjee writes: “To be in the archive is to be up against it, with dangerously little room to maneuver. Debilitation in the pursuit of archival discovery appears to itself be the primary discovery afforded by [it].”
asapjournal.com/node/the-arc...
asapjournal.com/node/the-arc...
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George Kowalik writes of Percival Everett's The Trees and the haunting of "Till’s body [as] an amalgamation of undead zombie, ghost, alien, and theistic possibility" as "Everett’s large cast of characters describes it as each of these..."
asapjournal.com/node/past-an...
asapjournal.com/node/past-an...
Past and Potential in Percival Everett’s The Trees - ASAP/Review
The opening page of Percival Everett’s landmark 2021 novel The Trees includes the following line: “the word between usually suggested something at either end, two somethings, or destinations.” This di...
asapjournal.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
George Kowalik writes of Percival Everett's The Trees and the haunting of "Till’s body [as] an amalgamation of undead zombie, ghost, alien, and theistic possibility" as "Everett’s large cast of characters describes it as each of these..."
asapjournal.com/node/past-an...
asapjournal.com/node/past-an...
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“Landscapes and objects can exude, even scream, violent hauntings by class, race, gender, sexuality, ableism, colonialism. For whom, then, is the peaceful violence of normative landscapes peaceful?” writes Dorinne Kondo on haunting and atmospheres.
asapjournal.com/node/hauntin...
asapjournal.com/node/hauntin...
Haunting as Atmospheric Violence - ASAP/Review
Haunting vividly conjures the past-as-present. For minoritarian subjects, a specter can powerfully incarnate the afterlives of structural violence, yet any concept both enables and forecloses interpre...
asapjournal.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
“Landscapes and objects can exude, even scream, violent hauntings by class, race, gender, sexuality, ableism, colonialism. For whom, then, is the peaceful violence of normative landscapes peaceful?” writes Dorinne Kondo on haunting and atmospheres.
asapjournal.com/node/hauntin...
asapjournal.com/node/hauntin...
Reposted by ASAP/Journal
Irina Troconis writes of the animal, the animalistic, and—particularly—the reptilian occupation within a narrative: "It makes sense that animals are there, among the exiled and the displaced evoked in these fictions."
asapjournal.com/node/of-frog...
asapjournal.com/node/of-frog...
Of Frogs and Ghosts: Tales of a Haunted Diaspora - ASAP/Review
Save the hug of the chosenthe travel albumthe bookssave the song of the frogsat night. — Alida Ribbi, “Las velas del tiempo” : : I. Animals of all kinds dwell in the memory and find shelter…
asapjournal.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Irina Troconis writes of the animal, the animalistic, and—particularly—the reptilian occupation within a narrative: "It makes sense that animals are there, among the exiled and the displaced evoked in these fictions."
asapjournal.com/node/of-frog...
asapjournal.com/node/of-frog...
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@jshelat1.bsky.social and @keeblearin.bsky.social look at Jamil Jan Kochai's fiction as it "moves away from event-based narratives of 9/11 and the war on terror, and their depictions of psychological trauma," while various "forms of haunting pervade these stories..."
asapjournal.com/node/jamil-j...
asapjournal.com/node/jamil-j...
Jamil Jan Kochai’s “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak” and the Hauntology of the Forever War - ASAP/Review
One of the more agreed upon features of “millennial literature” is the centrality of the internet and digital technologies. The lives of millennial writers and their characters are thought to be funda...
asapjournal.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
@jshelat1.bsky.social and @keeblearin.bsky.social look at Jamil Jan Kochai's fiction as it "moves away from event-based narratives of 9/11 and the war on terror, and their depictions of psychological trauma," while various "forms of haunting pervade these stories..."
asapjournal.com/node/jamil-j...
asapjournal.com/node/jamil-j...
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“In terms of the present, Native Hawai’i has fought back against the specter of attempted disappearance via hostile takeover and continued land occupation..." writes Nicole Dib, looking at the ways that people and the land write back.
asapjournal.com/node/of-haun...
asapjournal.com/node/of-haun...
Of Haunts and Haoles: Contemporary Scenes of Hawai’i Writing Back - ASAP/Review
Despite our love for a classic ghost story, we know that some figures outside the category of easily registered phantoms can haunt us more than a typical specter. For those arts of the present whose c...
asapjournal.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
“In terms of the present, Native Hawai’i has fought back against the specter of attempted disappearance via hostile takeover and continued land occupation..." writes Nicole Dib, looking at the ways that people and the land write back.
asapjournal.com/node/of-haun...
asapjournal.com/node/of-haun...
Reposted by ASAP/Journal
Editors @emmywaldman.bsky.social & David Hering beckon us into the world of hauntings and haunted worlds through the figure of the ghost: “Ghosts waver between substance and ether, visibility and invisibility, presence and absence, anticipation and retrospection."
asapjournal.com/node/hauntin...
asapjournal.com/node/hauntin...
Hauntings: Introduction - ASAP/Review
Ghosts don’t just appear; they return. In the Chinese language, the character for “ghost” (gui) is a homonym for the verb “to return.” The nature of haunting across languages and cultures is one of re...
asapjournal.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Editors @emmywaldman.bsky.social & David Hering beckon us into the world of hauntings and haunted worlds through the figure of the ghost: “Ghosts waver between substance and ether, visibility and invisibility, presence and absence, anticipation and retrospection."
asapjournal.com/node/hauntin...
asapjournal.com/node/hauntin...
Finally, Christine Prevas writes on All of Us Strangers: “Haunting distorts the way time and space are meant to be lived—and, in this process, throws into relief the ways in which these same normative temporalities and spatialities organize...[a] life.”
asapjournal.com/node/hauntin...
asapjournal.com/node/hauntin...
Haunting Time and Space in All of Us Strangers - ASAP/Review
Two haunted buildings organize Andrew Haigh’s 2023 film All of Us Strangers: the first is a nearly empty tower block on the edge of London; the other, a suburban home in Sanderstead, Croydon. The form...
asapjournal.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Finally, Christine Prevas writes on All of Us Strangers: “Haunting distorts the way time and space are meant to be lived—and, in this process, throws into relief the ways in which these same normative temporalities and spatialities organize...[a] life.”
asapjournal.com/node/hauntin...
asapjournal.com/node/hauntin...
M. Stang explores the dubious origins of Halloween's most recognizable figure: “The white sheet persists as one of the most common decorative motifs for sale on box store shelves and displayed on front porches across the United States..."
asapjournal.com/node/through...
asapjournal.com/node/through...
Through the Eyes of the Sheet and by the Feet of the Ghost - ASAP/Review
A friend recently told me that she discarded childhood photos of herself in a homemade ghost costume. “The way the seams of the sheets lined up over my head looked like a Ku Klux Klan hood,”…
asapjournal.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
M. Stang explores the dubious origins of Halloween's most recognizable figure: “The white sheet persists as one of the most common decorative motifs for sale on box store shelves and displayed on front porches across the United States..."
asapjournal.com/node/through...
asapjournal.com/node/through...
On Saidiya Hartman and archives, A Banerjee writes: “To be in the archive is to be up against it, with dangerously little room to maneuver. Debilitation in the pursuit of archival discovery appears to itself be the primary discovery afforded by [it].”
asapjournal.com/node/the-arc...
asapjournal.com/node/the-arc...
The Archival Haunt - ASAP/Review
In her essay “Venus in Two Acts,” Saidiya Hartman likens the archives of transatlantic slavery to a violent and defining death of the Black enslaved. The empirical record of the archives of slavery th...
asapjournal.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
On Saidiya Hartman and archives, A Banerjee writes: “To be in the archive is to be up against it, with dangerously little room to maneuver. Debilitation in the pursuit of archival discovery appears to itself be the primary discovery afforded by [it].”
asapjournal.com/node/the-arc...
asapjournal.com/node/the-arc...
George Kowalik writes of Percival Everett's The Trees and the haunting of "Till’s body [as] an amalgamation of undead zombie, ghost, alien, and theistic possibility" as "Everett’s large cast of characters describes it as each of these..."
asapjournal.com/node/past-an...
asapjournal.com/node/past-an...
Past and Potential in Percival Everett’s The Trees - ASAP/Review
The opening page of Percival Everett’s landmark 2021 novel The Trees includes the following line: “the word between usually suggested something at either end, two somethings, or destinations.” This di...
asapjournal.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
George Kowalik writes of Percival Everett's The Trees and the haunting of "Till’s body [as] an amalgamation of undead zombie, ghost, alien, and theistic possibility" as "Everett’s large cast of characters describes it as each of these..."
asapjournal.com/node/past-an...
asapjournal.com/node/past-an...
“Landscapes and objects can exude, even scream, violent hauntings by class, race, gender, sexuality, ableism, colonialism. For whom, then, is the peaceful violence of normative landscapes peaceful?” writes Dorinne Kondo on haunting and atmospheres.
asapjournal.com/node/hauntin...
asapjournal.com/node/hauntin...
Haunting as Atmospheric Violence - ASAP/Review
Haunting vividly conjures the past-as-present. For minoritarian subjects, a specter can powerfully incarnate the afterlives of structural violence, yet any concept both enables and forecloses interpre...
asapjournal.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
“Landscapes and objects can exude, even scream, violent hauntings by class, race, gender, sexuality, ableism, colonialism. For whom, then, is the peaceful violence of normative landscapes peaceful?” writes Dorinne Kondo on haunting and atmospheres.
asapjournal.com/node/hauntin...
asapjournal.com/node/hauntin...
Irina Troconis writes of the animal, the animalistic, and—particularly—the reptilian occupation within a narrative: "It makes sense that animals are there, among the exiled and the displaced evoked in these fictions."
asapjournal.com/node/of-frog...
asapjournal.com/node/of-frog...
Of Frogs and Ghosts: Tales of a Haunted Diaspora - ASAP/Review
Save the hug of the chosenthe travel albumthe bookssave the song of the frogsat night. — Alida Ribbi, “Las velas del tiempo” : : I. Animals of all kinds dwell in the memory and find shelter…
asapjournal.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Irina Troconis writes of the animal, the animalistic, and—particularly—the reptilian occupation within a narrative: "It makes sense that animals are there, among the exiled and the displaced evoked in these fictions."
asapjournal.com/node/of-frog...
asapjournal.com/node/of-frog...
@jshelat1.bsky.social and @keeblearin.bsky.social look at Jamil Jan Kochai's fiction as it "moves away from event-based narratives of 9/11 and the war on terror, and their depictions of psychological trauma," while various "forms of haunting pervade these stories..."
asapjournal.com/node/jamil-j...
asapjournal.com/node/jamil-j...
Jamil Jan Kochai’s “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak” and the Hauntology of the Forever War - ASAP/Review
One of the more agreed upon features of “millennial literature” is the centrality of the internet and digital technologies. The lives of millennial writers and their characters are thought to be funda...
asapjournal.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
@jshelat1.bsky.social and @keeblearin.bsky.social look at Jamil Jan Kochai's fiction as it "moves away from event-based narratives of 9/11 and the war on terror, and their depictions of psychological trauma," while various "forms of haunting pervade these stories..."
asapjournal.com/node/jamil-j...
asapjournal.com/node/jamil-j...
“In terms of the present, Native Hawai’i has fought back against the specter of attempted disappearance via hostile takeover and continued land occupation..." writes Nicole Dib, looking at the ways that people and the land write back.
asapjournal.com/node/of-haun...
asapjournal.com/node/of-haun...
Of Haunts and Haoles: Contemporary Scenes of Hawai’i Writing Back - ASAP/Review
Despite our love for a classic ghost story, we know that some figures outside the category of easily registered phantoms can haunt us more than a typical specter. For those arts of the present whose c...
asapjournal.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
“In terms of the present, Native Hawai’i has fought back against the specter of attempted disappearance via hostile takeover and continued land occupation..." writes Nicole Dib, looking at the ways that people and the land write back.
asapjournal.com/node/of-haun...
asapjournal.com/node/of-haun...
Editors @emmywaldman.bsky.social & David Hering beckon us into the world of hauntings and haunted worlds through the figure of the ghost: “Ghosts waver between substance and ether, visibility and invisibility, presence and absence, anticipation and retrospection."
asapjournal.com/node/hauntin...
asapjournal.com/node/hauntin...
Hauntings: Introduction - ASAP/Review
Ghosts don’t just appear; they return. In the Chinese language, the character for “ghost” (gui) is a homonym for the verb “to return.” The nature of haunting across languages and cultures is one of re...
asapjournal.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Editors @emmywaldman.bsky.social & David Hering beckon us into the world of hauntings and haunted worlds through the figure of the ghost: “Ghosts waver between substance and ether, visibility and invisibility, presence and absence, anticipation and retrospection."
asapjournal.com/node/hauntin...
asapjournal.com/node/hauntin...