After speaking with a fellow researcher of nostalgia, I’ve had a statement that he mentioned rattling around in my head. That is about being “nostalgic for the future”. Part of why this stands out for me is due to my research around hauntology and the relationship that media has with it. In short, media (videogames, film, TV, and music) are struggling to imagine a different future. Not only in what these media forms depict but also how they reincorporate elements from past media forms. This contributes to what Mark Fisher refers to as “lost futures” which instead are replaced with...
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