ABSTRACT
This chapter starts with the question of the relationship between responsibility and history. It briefly introduces Akomfrah’s work as a whole, and a specific example in a particular show. The essay begins to play with the title of that show, Hauntologies, in relation to the fact that the writer is unable to access either the artist or a certain text containing information about the artist, the show, and the work in question. Along the way the essay also brings up themes that appear elsewhere in the book, relating to Marxism, and notions of dress, to which it returns at the end.
