In many ways, nostalgia is the defining mood of our time. Since the start of the millennium, western culture has been dominated by pastiche and revivalism, remakes, and the fracturing and mixing of already existing stuff. In tandem, there is a feeling that nothing new is being created - that nothing new is truly groundbreaking, movement inducing, or at all reminiscent of the genre defining moments in the latter half of the 20th century. In the words of Simon Reynolds, “Is nostalgia stopping our culture's ability to surge forward, or are we nostalgic precisely because our culture has stopped moving forward and so we inevitably look back to more momentous and dynamic times?"
Well-qualified experts, Marcel, Nic, and Xavi, tackle this question using their high IQs and extensive cultural knowledge. We then discuss the story of the Siberian hell hole.
References: Retromania, Simon Reynolds; The Future of Nostalgia, Svetlana Boym; Capitalist Realism, Mark Fisher.
