ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the notions, practices, cultural representations, and my lived experiences of what I have termed as the “spectral realities” of capitalist society. I extensively draw on Marx’s concepts of alienation and estrangement that are a fundamental social characteristic of capitalism. Through numerous examples including interactional encounters, everyday discourses including the Othering of people, personal observations, and literary and cinematic analysis, I illustrate how our alienation and estrangement from one another is manifested via the multiple domains of language, discourse, identity, culture, and the media.
