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The Hours Have Lost Their Clock : The Politics of Nostalgia
by Grafton Tanner
Noticing in my readings of books analyzing nostalgia (all of two of them) the writers find a way in through their personal story — to analyze nostalgia, one must become nostalgic.
Casual and accessible tone used to explore interconnectedness of economic forces in American capitalism and existential anxieties of being alive that has made nostalgia big business. This book presents a counterargument for a kind of "revolutionary nostalgia" — a left-aligned nonreactionary nostalgia used for emotional appeal to, hypothetically, change the status quo. I'm not certain whether this would be an efficacious practice, or even if "nonreactionary nostalgia" exists.
The brightest spot in the book's analysis is its arguments on time being perceived nonlinearly. Human perception is the context of our existence and we most certainly do not experience time in its linear form even if that is how time passes on Earth. Nostalgia is one instance of us living in nonlinear times.
Casual and accessible tone used to explore interconnectedness of economic forces in American capitalism and existential anxieties of being alive that has made nostalgia big business. This book presents a counterargument for a kind of "revolutionary nostalgia" — a left-aligned nonreactionary nostalgia used for emotional appeal to, hypothetically, change the status quo. I'm not certain whether this would be an efficacious practice, or even if "nonreactionary nostalgia" exists.
The brightest spot in the book's analysis is its arguments on time being perceived nonlinearly. Human perception is the context of our existence and we most certainly do not experience time in its linear form even if that is how time passes on Earth. Nostalgia is one instance of us living in nonlinear times.