The Hours Have Lost Their Clock charts the rise of nostalgia in an era knocked out of time.
Grafton Tanner Livres
Grafton Tanner explore l'interaction complexe entre la technologie, la nostalgie et les phénomènes culturels. Son écriture examine comment les avancées numériques contemporaines et la marchandisation de la culture façonnent notre mémoire collective et nos aspirations à des futurs à la fois utopiques et dystopiques. L'approche de Tanner se caractérise par une analyse approfondie de la société moderne, révélant comment elle reste profondément ancrée dans le passé, offrant aux lecteurs une perspective pertinente sur l'ère numérique.
Babbling Corpse
- 84pages
- 3 heures de lecture
In the age of global capitalism, vaporwave celebrates and undermines the electronic ghosts haunting the nostalgia industry.
Why are we more nostalgic in the digital age than ever before?
What do cinematic “universes,” cloud archiving, and voice cloning have in common? They’re in the business of foreverizing – the process of revitalizing things that have degraded, failed, or disappeared so that they can remain active in the present. To foreverize something is to reanimate it, to enclose and protect it from time and the elements, and to eradicate the feeling of nostalgia that accompanies loss. Foreverizing is a bulwark against instability, but it isn’t an infallible enterprise. That which is promised to last forever often does not, and that which is disposed of can sometimes last, disturbingly, forever. In this groundbreaking book, American philosopher Grafton Tanner develops his theory of foreverism: an anti-nostalgic discourse that promises growth without change and life without loss. Engaging with pressing issues from the ecological impact of data storage to the rise of reboot culture, Tanner tracks the implications of a society averse to nostalgia and reveals the new weapons we have for eliminating it.