The promise of nostalgia : reminiscence, longing and hope in contemporary American culture /
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2020.
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| Series: | Routledge research in anticipation and futures
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Everybody's still just wild about nostalgia
- Nostalgia versus utopia
- A Blochian approach
- What is the contemporary?
- Overview
- Notes
- Part I
- Chapter 1: Nostalgia: Is it really not what it used to be?
- A medical origin: longing for home
- Modern nostalgia: longing for lost time
- Nostalgia versus modernity
- Modern technologies of nostalgia
- Postmodern nostalgia: what longing?
- Amnesiac nostalgia
- Consumption and longing
- Nostalgia for sale
- Technology and the nostalgia mode
- Criticisms of theories of the nostalgia mode
- Current debate
- Notes
- Chapter 2: Memory, nostalgia, utopia and time
- Defining utopia
- Ideology versus utopia
- Utopia: glorious past or glittering future?
- Marcuse and Bloch: psychoanalysis, remembrance and the utopian impulse
- Marcuse and remembrance
- Bloch and the not yet
- A false binary?
- Notes
- Chapter 3: Nostalgia as 'gold-bearing rubble'
- Bloch's ideology critique
- Bloch's non-contemporaneous: traces of hope
- Bloch, Marcuse and Derrida: ghosts which need redeeming
- Benjamin's shock of recognition
- Recent complementary approaches
- Introducing Part II
- Notes
- Part II
- Interlude 1: The hole in the whole: utopia contra instrumental reason
- Notes
- Chapter 4: The 'strange magic' of Style Rookie and Rookiemag
- Introducing Tavi
- Defining the text
- Notes on a new nostalgia
- A Jamesonian reading
- A Blochian reading
- Metamodern nostalgia
- Notes
- Interlude 2: A space outside: utopia as negation
- Notes
- Chapter 5: Memories of longing in The Virgin Suicides
- Jameson and the nostalgia film
- A Jamesonian reading
- Jameson versus Bloch: a methodological reflection
- A Blochian reading: the gold in the rubble
- Rebellion, negation and the teenage
- Notes
- Interlude 3: Marshalling the past: utopia versus once upon a time
- Notes
- Chapter 6: Nostalgia in photographs of Detroit's 'abandoned spaces'
- Detroit 'abandoned spaces' photography: the current debate
- A Benjaminian reading of Camilo José Vergara's American Ruins
- A Jamesonian reading of Detroit' abandoned spaces' photography
- A Blochian reading of Detroit 'abandoned spaces' photography
- The symbolic allure of abandonment
- Nostalgia for the vertical
- Notes
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index