I am supposed to be writing the third and final chapter of my thesis, which is about nostalgia, so instead of starting it, I made this video 🙃

Here are some decent resources on the topic, as a lot of people seem interested:

Ghosts of my life: writings on hauntology and depression by Mark Fisher (there’s a chapter called the slow cancellation of the future, which is pretty good description of how culture becomes stuck)

Babbling corpse: retrowave and the commodification of ghosts by @graftontanner (Foreverism and The Hours have lost their clocks are two other great books he wrote)

Retrotopia by Zygmunt Bauman (there’s a chapter on nostalgia)

Svetlana Boym - Nostalgia and its Discontents (not a book an essay, but deals with the different types of nostalgia and how they can be politicised.)