Espectralizaciones de Pasolini

In the wake of Derrida’s famous essay Spectres of Marx, the concept of spectrality has long played a significant role in contemporary theory and approaches to various political, cultural and aesthetic phenomena (e.g. dematerialisation). In this article, the concept of spectralisation will be used to analyse both some of the less hackneyed features of Pasolini’s cinema, and – above all – some of its manifestations in theatre and contemporary art (in particular, Fabio Condemi and Gabriele Portoghese’s Questo è il tempo in cui attendo la grazia and Francesco Vezzoli’s Trilogia della morte).