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SoiferI VtP Annotation: Gordon Ghostly Matters

How can experimental and installation ethnography tell stories? How might experimental and installation ethnography aid us in interpreting anew the signs of particular events so as to grasp them and present them, particularly to get to the "ghost story," the likes of which may be embedded in the flickering of a moment? How might we get at the "profane illumination," the kind of conjuring that "iniatiates" because it tells us "something important that we had not known; because it is leading us somewhere, or elsewhere?" (205) How might such in turn engage the sensuous knowledge of spectators, and encourage them to see place and toxicity differently? How might it get them to engage in a double-take, questioning their ways of knowing and seeing the world? 

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