Hauntology and religious prophesy
what are the outer limits of hauntology
is there a hauntology of religious prophesy?
been looking at this thing

which depicts a future buddha from a time when the teachings of the last buddha have been forgotten
the ability of archaic religions to conceive of the future was pretty limited
arguably the first work to make wild speculative preditions was bacon's 'new atlantis'
the advent of science, it's identification as a mover in the world, making the future distinct
arguably = as far as i'm aware :9
maybe i was being too sweeping... the history of philosophical utopias goes back further
i guess what science does is make the future a series of irreversible milestones. you can't uninvent something, but you can always reorganise society.
i guess in that regard something like new Atlantis most resembles books of prophesy, like merlins book in monmouth's 'history of the kings of britian' or the prophesies of nostrodamus
or mother shipton
