The Hours Have Lost Their Clock charts the rise of nostalgia in an era knocked out of time.
Grafton Tanner Boeken
Grafton Tanner duikt in het ingewikkelde samenspel tussen technologie, nostalgie en culturele fenomenen. Zijn schrijven onderzoekt hoe hedendaagse digitale vooruitgang en de commercialisering van cultuur ons collectieve geheugen en onze aspiraties voor zowel utopische als dystopische toekomsten vormgeven. Tanner's benadering wordt gekenmerkt door een diepgaande analyse van de moderne samenleving, waarin wordt onthuld hoe deze diep geworteld blijft in het verleden, en biedt lezers een scherp perspectief op het digitale tijdperk.
Babbling Corpse
- 84bladzijden
- 3 uur lezen
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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.