Work Futures Daily | Nostalgia

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source: Atlas of Transformation

Beacon NY | 2019–08–22 | Today’s issue takes its name from the quote of the day by Svetlana Boym, particularly this:

The 20th century began with a futuristic utopia and ended with nostalgia.

I was first introduced to Boym in a review of Zygmunt Bauman’s Retrotopiaby Alastair Bonnett. He added an additional quote from Boym’s …