"[T]he ‘spectral moment’ that invites us to make contact, to gain ‘counsel,’ from a haunting non-contemporaneity, with a haunting that overturns our ontological grounds, would trouble any mode of historical reception that (unwittingly) attempts to remain immanent to itself. To think of testament as a spectral instance, as a call that comes before and beyond the present, urges us to reckon with details that exceed the continuity of ‘our’ present terms. It allows us to acknowledge that within the details of the testament there always remain remains not yet accounted for or defined by the present terms of our discursive exchange. Heeding that there are remains, that there exists the too troubling or perhaps too shameful (the too much for now!), allows us to encounter the irreducible nature of testament. This is an instance that reminds us that it is the complexity of a living-life that often disappears in the typicality of historical abstraction. In the spectral moment, remembrance is challenged to re-work the singularity of life from its absorption into some undifferentiated mass-theme of history. In this sense, being attentive to the living complexity of testaments implies, citing Avery Gordon, ‘making a contact [with ghosts/with what is beyond here] that changes you and refashions the social relations in which you are located. It is about putting life back in where only a vague memory or a bare trace was visible’ (1997: 22). In other words, a transitive engagement with testament implicates a welcome to that which comes from beyond my time, to instances that expose us to what we are not, that engender a mode of being - a sociality of learning to live finally here, now - with ghosts that disjoin the exchange-order of presents."  (Simon, website)