But it’s on us to feel the ghost. Probably Hölderlin did it while writing his poems. Maybe one of us does it while reading it. It always depends on us.
On the other side, there is another description. When we take sociology and Latour, repeats may tell us something about us. But what they will tell us? They will probably tell us a story about our theory of time. We already described it. The European civilization describes time as a line, as a phenomenon, which goes and never comes back. We use repeats as a possibility to compare ourselves with our previous culture. And mostly in order to speak about something like development. Maybe our understanding of time is the reason, why Europeans believe in something like development. A revolution is not a break of time but a point when we look back.
Im don’t mention structuralism, because this text is not a philosophical essay. Rather an invitation.