Table of Contents
00 Lost Futures 1
'The Slow Cancellation of the Future' 2
Ghosts Of My Life 30
01 The Return of the 70s 49
No Longer the Pleasures: Joy Division 50
Smiley's Game: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy 64
The Past is an Alien Planet: The First and Last Episodes of Life on Mars 76
'Can the World be as Sad as it Seems?': David Peace and his Adapters 80
Now Then, Now Then: Jimmy Savile and 'the 70s on Trial' 88
02 Hauntology 97
London After the Rave: Burial 98
Downcast Angel: Interview with Burial 101
Sleevenotes for The Caretaker's Theoretically Pure Anterograde Amnesia 109
Memory Disorder: Interview with The Caretaker 112
Home is where the Haunt Ts: The Shining's Hauntology 120
Hauntological Blues: Little Axe 128
Nostalgia for Modernism: The Focus Group and Belbury Poly 133
The Ache of Nostalgia: The Advisory Circle 139
Someone Else's Memories: Asher, Philip Jeck, Black To Comm, G.E.S., Position Normal, Mordant Music 143
'Old Sunlight From Other Times and Other Lives': John Foxx's Tiny Colour Movies 152
Electricity and Ghosts: Interview with John Foxx 160
Another Grey World: Darkstar, James Blake, Kanye West, Drake and 'Party Hauntology' 171
03 The Stain of Place 183
'Always Yearning For The Time That Just Eluded Us' - Introduction to Laura Oldfield Ford's Savage Messiah 184
Nomadalgia: The Junior Boys' So This is Goodbye 193
Grey Area: Chris Petit's Content 199
Postmodern Antiques: Patience (After Sehald) 202
The Lost Unconscious: Christopher Nolan's Inception 208
Handsworth Songs and the English Riots 221
'Tremors of an Imperceptible Future': Patrick Keiller's Robinson in Ruins 225