Nostalgia

Nostalgia, like progress, is dependent on the modern conception of unrepeateable and irreversible time. The romantic nostalgic insisted on the otherness of his object of nostalgia from his present life and kept it at the safe distance. The object of romantic nostalgia must be beyond the present space of experience, somewhere in the twilight of the past or on the island of utopia where time has happily stopped, as on an antique clock. At the same time, romantic nostalgia is not a mere antithesis to progress; it undermines both a linear conception of progress and a Hegelian dialectical teleology. The nostalgic direct his gaze not only backward and sideways, and expresses himself in elegiac poems and ironic fragments, not in philosophical or scientific treatises. Nostalgia remains unsystematic and un-synthesizable; it seduces rather than convinces. ~ Svetlana Boym ~ "The future of Nostalgia"

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