ON NOSTALGIA

From movies to politics, social media posts to the targeted ads between them, nostalgia is one of the most potent forces of our era. On Nostalgia is a panoramic cultural history of nostalgia, exploring how a force that started as a psychological diagnosis of soldi ers fighting far from home has come become a quintessentially modern condition. Drawing on everything from the modern science of mem ory to the romantic ideals of advertising, and traversing cultural movements from futurism to fascism to Facebook, cultural critic D avid Ber...[Read more]