Derrida describes an ‘unnatural’ ghostly haunting whereby the dead are taken into us, but they are not internalized as they would be under more ‘normal’ circumstances (a psychoanalytic view of mourning) – he labels this as ‘terrifying.’
Derrida recounts his 1982 arrest in Czechoslavakia on trumped-up drug charges …
see also this clip in which Derrida plays ‘himself’ in the film and comments upon ghosts as they pertain to cinema and representation itself; the late Pascale Ogier (1958-1984) plays ‘Pascale’ who is questioning Derrida.
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讓我們再換個角度,知己而後知彼,嘗試理解一下「管治者」與「支持高鐵」的一方的思維,我沒法鑽進他們的腦袋,也不知道他們吃錯甚麼藥打錯甚麼針,但是他們表現的形態就是:香港需要建一條高速鐵路與否,並不取決於它的造價與走線。特區政府與立法會功能組別(或他們代理的何方神聖)正正因為 A) 他們認為「香港需要建一條高速鐵路」,所以 B) 造價那麼貴,走線那麼大爭議依然要霸王眼硬上弓,說是值得,於是才會 C) 不單不撤回方案,更要加快財委會審議,務求一眾「舉手機器」表決通過工程撥款,做成「既定事實」。
這裡面有兩個考察,首先,「接軌大陸」、「趕上發展」的講法之所以廣為人接納,正在於它意涵空泛沒有實質所指——它無須論證,所以很有魅力。它的魅力來源於一種錯置的「現實」觀念(displaced idea of reality),現實有多窮困,就有幾多人恨「發達」,香港的社會情況有多倒退,就有幾多人覺得自己「落後」於形勢,社會的不義到底還是折算做「個人」的不幸、不濟,越覺得自己的生活倒霉的人越覺得自己本來應該有更多,要是有人拿走他現有、「應有的」一份兒就必須出來反對,包括政府開的空頭支票。因此「接軌大陸」、「趕上發展」的說法,它的魅力有一種統御性,它信仰者眾,也因為它「便攜」,在電台Phone-in 節目短短三十秒、報紙幾百字的篇幅、問卷調查的題目中間,或是在公車上同人吹水,容不下論証、甚至容不下教育,「總之發展是好的,總之中港融合是好的」。