Morton 38: "[W]e will need to embrace [existence's] haunting, uncanny, spectral dimension"
Morton describes the "distorted halo" of waste products surrounding the human as an example of "what we shall call 'spectrality'" (42)
"Spectrality is nonhumans" (54, emphasis in original)
"spectrality is the flavor of the symbiotic real" (54) ... it is the aspect of our existence that we are "alienated from" (132)
"Communist thought needs to embrace the spectral" (54), yielding an "ecocommunism, a communism of humans and nonhumans alike"
"Spectrality [is] the way a thing keeps exceeding itself, or is displaced from itself, or ecstatically outside itself" (84)
"The idea that there is a soul or even a mind that is 'in' a body like a gas in a bottle is an attempt to contain and reduce the spectrality." (96) People try "to make the specter something you can point to [...] whereas the specter is an ontological aspect of the structure of how things are. The spectrality of a thing is more like a medical syndrome, a chronic symptom that's hard to detect, and less like a point on a map." (96)