ABSTRACT
In the time of modernity, there is no city that is not technologically mediated, no city that is not without its specters. Like modernity, the city is haunted and therefore in need of a ‘spectrographic’ analysis. 1 A fantasy structure governs the generation and circulation of specters. This fantasy structure has a name – phantasmagoria – and a history, which goes back three centuries to the use of the magic lantern for projecting phantasmatic-hallucinatory images. The specters of the city have never stopped haunting the moderns. They can be neither repressed nor conjured away.
