“In a society sick of acceleration, nostalgia imposes itself as a way to slow down, if not to brake”

“In a society sick of acceleration, nostalgia imposes itself as a way to slow down, if not to brake”
“In a society sick of acceleration, nostalgia imposes itself as a way to slow down, if not to brake”

Published on January 11, 2025 at 1:54 p.m. / Modified on January 11, 2025 at 4:23 p.m.

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Emmanuelle Fantin is a lecturer at Celsa Sorbonne University and co-edited the work Contemporary nostalgia (Ed. Presses universitaire du Septentrion, 2021). While some of today’s young people take refuge in the cultural codes of past decades with a singular appetite, the specialist deciphers the ambient spleen.

Read also: “Adonostalgia”, when young people prefer to escape into the past than look to the future
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