Zusammenfassung der Ressource
9 Nostalgia
- the past
v. present
- attraction to the
past because it is
complete
- unsatisfying present,
good old days past
(Hobsbawm 1997)
- fleeting nature,
reality fiction
blurred boundaries,
collapse of time and
space, intensified by
media and
consumer culture
- past highly
marketable,
acceleration of tech
- Baudrillard
- Third Order of Simulacrum
- heritage simulations
- own realities
- Jameson
- cultural schizophrenia
- perpetual present
- history becomes phantasy
(mediated images of past)
- ' intertextuality” as a deliberate,
built in feature of the aesthetic
effect ... displaces real history'
- historicism
- not longing for authentic past (irrelevant in PM) but the style
- cherry picking history
- demand for past: tv viewing, heritage, vintage, retro communities
- re-enchanting the present?
- romanticized/idealised
- even bad past still
perceived as good
- Past is tangible and
secure- Lowenthal
- Nostalgia Industry
- themes create
options= more
consumption
- Periods that we remember
- Periods we dont remember
- manufactured, idealized past
- memory banks (Recuber)
- Retrophilic
culture
- fans create utopian
spaces (Grey, 2007)
- Sassatelli- dreaming with eyes open
- Spitalfields House- made up story
- aestheticization, similar to abandoned places
- avatar, vintage presence
- Us and them perspective
- where are you? what time period
- historical simulacra eg.
Retrospective Magazine
- Escapist
- 'alternative to unacceptable present' Lowenthal
- anaesthetic, decelaration (a perceived simpler existance), provides structure
- Considering the past: commodity, antidote, spectacle
- Authenticity
- urgency to find genuine, paradox authenticity irrelevant in PM
- connect to past, distance from present
- Benjamin: aura of genuine objects unfindable in present
- Identity
- fashion, values,
individuality (jameson
says a thing of the
past)
- Response
- Dialectical opposition > the
rejection of advanced
consumerism and yet the
nostalgia (consumer) industry
permits us to travel back in time