Anti-racism has nurtured many visions of post-racism futures. All this talk and political action relies on and reproduces discourses of racism. While much of this discursive force lies in what is said, we argue that a haunting quality of racism may arise from what is unsaid. This includes the multifarious points of connection between the present and the past. We are all implicated, albeit unevenly. This article describes the phenomenon of spectral racism that arises from such implicature. We develop a discursive account of its constitution in acts of dialogical repression, and we consider some of the social psychological and political ramifications of haunting racism. We illustrate our arguments by an analysis of the way the prohibition against the use of the k-word echoes the toxic past and zombifies racism via psychological enticement.

Abstract The safety and efficacy of elosulfase alfa were evaluated in a multicenter, open-label, phase 3b study in Australian Morquio A patients, consisting of a 49-week initial phase and an extension phase until elosulfase alfa was government funded. Thirteen patients (1-27 years) were enrolled. No new safety concerns were identified over 138 weeks. Most drug-related adverse events were mild or moderate in severity; none led to study discontinuation. After 49 weeks of treatment, median improvements from baseline were seen in the 6-minute walk test (+41.0 m), 3-minute stair climb test (+14.0 stairs/min), forced vital capacity (+16.4%), forced expiratory volume in 1 second (+14.1%), urine keratan sulfate (-7.1 µg/mg creatinine), and pain intensity. Growth, cardiac function, sleep, and quality of life results were mixed or stable. These results provide further evidence of the acceptable safety/tolerability profile of elosulfase alfa. The improvements in endurance, pulmonary function, and pain support findings from previous studies.

In a city where the accumulation of monuments has turned public space into nothing else than the platform from which to photograph them, the addition of ground layers offers an alternative relationship between the city and its history. For if the monument is what remains from the past, the elevated ground -as excavated sediments- allows a new urban reading from a counterintuitive operation: leaving segments the city underground.

En una ciudad en que la acumulación de monumentos ha transformado al espacio público en poco más que el lugar desde donde fotografiarlos, la adición de capas de suelo propone una alternativa a la relación de la ciudad con su historia. Porque si el monumento es lo que queda del pasado, el suelo elevado -como un sedimento excavado- permite una nueva lectura urbana a partir de una operación contraintuitiva: simplemente dejar partes de la ciudad bajo tierra.