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Nostalgia

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Stowe Boyd
Aug 22, 2019
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source: Atlas of Transformation

The 20th century began with a futuristic utopia and ended with nostalgia. The optimistic belief in the future has become outmoded while nostalgia, for better or for worse, never went out of fashion, remaining uncannily contemporary.

| Svetlana Boym, Nostalgia (in the fascinating Atlas of Transformation)

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Beacon NY | 2019–08–…

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