Foreverism w/ Grafton Tanner

The Digital Void Podcast

How do reboots and IP fueled universes prevent us from ever feeling nostalgia?

Author of Foreverism Grafton Tanner discusses how the practice of keeping things alive prevents us from ever feeling nostalgia.

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About Grafton Tanner:

Grafton Tanner is the author of Foreverism, The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia (Repeater Books, 2021), The Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech (Zer0 Books, 2020), and Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts (Zer0 Books, 2016). His work focuses on nostalgia, technology, and the rhetoric of neoliberalism, and his writing has appeared in such venues as NPR, The Nation, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Real Life. He also hosts Delusioneering, an audio series about the myths of capitalism, and he writes and performs music with his band Superpuppet. He’s currently writing a book on the re-emergence of exorcism in the late twentieth century.

03:30 The History and Politics of Nostalgia

04:11 The Shift in Perception of Nostalgia

04:27 The Impact of Nostalgia on Consumer Choices

04:51 The Medical Roots of Nostalgia

05:19 The Concept of Foreverism

05:52 The Evolution of Nostalgia to Commercial Term

07:50 The Impact of IP Fueled Universes on Nostalgia

11:02 The Commodification of Nostalgia

12:08 Persistent Storylling

21:30 The Shift in Acting Practices due to Foreverism

30:23 The Consequences of Foreverism on the Planet

36:03 Resisting Foreverism

Credits

Hosted by Josh Chapdelaine and Jamie Cohen, PhD

Audio edited and mixed by Josh Chapdelaine

Digital Void Podcast is a production of Digital Void, LLC.

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