I've joined the B Square group on Flickr as I felt that it would be appropriate for some of my square format images. For some reason I do not utilize Utata, even though I am a member of the group and I find its ethos as a salon in the traditional sense attractive.

rocks, originally uploaded by poodly.

I stumbled up the group as a result of exploring this body of work, or set as it is called on Flickr by Incognita Nom de Plume. Shiralee (aka Cog) runs Curiosity Cabinet, is a content-sharing community for collectors to share their collections, discover community and trade information and, eventually, objects which is well worth exploring.

The B Square group on Flickr has interesting work if you dig around this hub in the visual network as I did with Terrorkitten or Phil Bebbington who lives in the city of Bath in England. Bebbington's website is here.

I just loved his Cretan Interiors portfolio--- a photographic exploration of hauntology.

The remote villages on Crete are gradually being deserted for urban life in the larger towns and cities and his photographs explore the ruins of past lives. These ghostly traces of past lives in a rural island economy express both a nostalgia for the past and an hauntology aesthetics.

Hauntology, with its roots in Derrida's Spectres of Marx, is not just melancholic mourning of a better times in ta non-reclaimable past; as it also includes a way of redeeming time and showing us the possible in our present socio-cultural economic situation.