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One facet of Fisher’s hauntology is rooted in the feeling that the art of the present seems to have stalled in the late 20th century. In the Film Quarterly piece “What Is Hauntology?”, Fisher notes how electronic music of the 2000s and onwards can no longer produce sounds that seem futuristic. Electronic music is in a type of retrospection, recreating the sounds of the past in hopes of discovering a future that never happened. If we accept this idea, western politics and culture in the 21st century are ca