Consumerism + nostalgia
The Death of Nostalgia
triumphofentropy.substack.com
I lament my own immersion in an economy that grinds what is beautiful and unique into dollars, converts gifts to commodities in a currency that enables us to purchase things we don't really need whole destroying what we do
Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry
Nostalgia is “a common card that’s played when you’re going through times of change and uncertainty,” noted Darren Savage, strategy lead at U.K. creative agency You’re The Goods.
Sam Bradley • Creatives urge marketers to resist swing toward ‘conservative’ post-election ad messaging
Nostalgia need not be conservative, stultifying or sentimental. Rather, expressions of nostalgia are one way we communicate a desire for the past, dissatisfaction about the present, and our visions for the future. My version of nostalgia will be joyful, creative and progressive.
Agnes Arnold-Forster • Nostalgia Was, in Freud’s Day, an Illness Steeped in the Past. Today, It Can Be a Joyful Emotion That Reframes the Future
Nostalgia Was, in Freud’s Day, an Illness Steeped in the Past. Today, It Can Be a Joyful Emotion That Reframes the Future
Agnes Arnold-Forsterpsyche.coThe Cult of Yesterday
Capitalism, Necromancy, and the Dark Side of Nostalgia
River Quintana
Feb 09, 2024
Some of the sources of Pop Art VI, Peter Blake
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Capitalism, it seems, can’t let go of the past. Like a necromancer, it reanimates the corpses of bygone trends, ideologies, and aesthetics, then sells them back to us at a markup. This... See more
Capitalism, Necromancy, and the Dark Side of Nostalgia
River Quintana
Feb 09, 2024
Some of the sources of Pop Art VI, Peter Blake
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Capitalism, it seems, can’t let go of the past. Like a necromancer, it reanimates the corpses of bygone trends, ideologies, and aesthetics, then sells them back to us at a markup. This... See more
River Quintana • The Cult of Yesterday
In a recent newsletter, “The Shopping Cure,” Anne Helen Petersen explored the compulsion to buy and accumulate stuff that’s been fostered by technologies of frictionless consumption. Every conceivable activity or hobby one sets out to enjoy becomes an occasion to buy stuff: “They transform from sites of actual pleasure and diversion to means of
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