ABSTRACT
This chapter considers absence, trauma and the memorialisation of 'presence' in the two spaces. It was the coming together of Derrida's ghosts of world disorder and personal and mediated memories that constituted the haunted spaces. On the day that the 7/7 Memorial was unveiled in 2009, journalist Ellis Woodman commented in the British newspaper, The Telegraph, that there are two major kinds of monument: those erected to honour individuals, and those to commemorate often nameless masses. 'Memorialisation', in Hoskins' stands in contradistinction to 'emergence'. Emergence can be defined as the 'massively increased potential for media data to literally emerge at an unprescribed and unpredictable time after the moment of its recording, archiving, or loss', an uncertainty that is built up by pervasive digital media in a 'postscarcity culture'. Derrida is certainly right to identify 'three places, forms, and powers of culture' – the political, media and scholarly spheres – which 'are more than ever welded together by the same apparatuses'.
