Ghosts Of My Life Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures 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 Is: 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 Sebald) 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