The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia ,Grafton Tanner

-About this book

The Hours Have Lost Their Clock charts the rise of nostalgia in an era knocked out of time.
In The Hours Have Lost Their Clock, Grafton Tanner charts the rise of nostalgia in an era knocked out of time.
Nostalgia is the defining emotion of our age. Political leaders promise a return to yesteryear. Old movies are remade and cancelled series are rebooted. Veterans reenact past wars, while the displaced across the world long for home. But who is behind this collective ache for a home in the past? Do we need to eliminate nostalgia, or just cultivate it better? And what is at stake if we make the wrong choice?
Moving from the fight over Confederate monuments to the birth of homeland security to the mourning of species extinction, Grafton Tanner traces nostalgia’s ascent in the twenty-first century, revealing its power as both a consequence of our unstable time and a defense against it. With little faith in a future of…

-Contents

Introduction

Part I: The Past in the Present

1. What is Nostalgia?
2. In Search of Lost Time and Space
3. Homeland Security
4. Lost Cause

Part II: The Present in the Past

5. The Nostalgia Industry
6. The Medium is the Memory
7. Escape Artists

Part III: The Past in the Future

8. Nostalgorithm
9. Grief and Yearning in the Anthropocene
10. Memories of Extinction

Conclusion: The Right to Nostalgia

Notes

-Caractéristiques

Date de parution:12 octobre 2021

Éditeur ‏ : ‎ Repeater; New édition

Langue ‏ : ‎ Anglais

NB.de pages ‏ : ‎ 250 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1913462447

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1913462444

Poids de l’article ‏ : ‎ 367 g

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.03 x 2.49 x 19.69 cm