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Hauntology is an idea that encompasses the notion that we are persistently unsettled by futures envisaged in the past that never materialised: doomed utopias, radical modernisms, sci-fi visions of futuristic metropolises that failed to comprehend that the cities of the 2020s would look disappointingly like the cities of the 1950s. 

This is true of almost everywhere….