Save the Desktop

Nostalgia, as Mark Fisher predicted, has never been more potent. We can’t stop longing for the past – and increasingly, even the very recent past, via the “nowstalgia” of rapid-cycling trends – at the expense of creating something genuinely novel.

A wave of art has recently represented the PC in a positive light, tapping into its past aura.

lmost every digital detox ends in relapse, because the online world is with us everywhere we go, a dark cloud hanging above us. The internet is inescapable.