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Is there a kind of nostalgia that isn't retro?
by hirundo 6y ago
Is there a kind of nostalgia that isn't retro?
- neom 6y agoNostalgia is a feeling and in this context, retro is a style. In the sense that they both refer to the past, maybe. Here to be nostalgic is to opine in the present about the retro style. However generally speaking, one could have a feeling of nostalgia towards a smell, feeling, colour, moment etc, nostalgia does not have to be retro(style), unless retro is specifically retroactive, and that isn't the case here.
- coldtea 6y agoA few pine for lost futures.
- hirundo 6y agoThose are retro futures.
- coldtea 6y agoYeah, like the "60s version of the future", but not always. You can feel nostalgia for novel, just invented, futures too (in the sense of feeling a loss for not being able to go there).
- rbanffy 6y agoWe were promised vacations on the Moon, space stations, and rocket belts. All that while keeping the simple life of the period. What we got is a dystopian nightmare that could have been written by Charlie Stross (I know you lurk here) or William Gibson, except that the dialogues and plot are destitute of any interesting feature.
- TedShiller 6y agoNice try ;)
- clydethefrog 6y agoSee Mark Fisher's Hauntology.
- TedShiller 6y agoYes, there are imagined visions of the future, which are also a kind of style that people can long for.
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