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How Nostalgia Serves Corporate Power w/ Grafton Tanner
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Paris Marx is joined by Grafton Tanner to discuss how social media constantly resurfaces the past, why film and television uses nostalgia to keep us engaged, and whether there’s a way to wield nostalgia in pursuit of a better world.
Grafton Tanner is the author of “The Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech” and “Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts.” Grafton is also writing “The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia” for Repeater Books, due out in October 2021. Follow Grafton on Twitter as @GraftonTanner.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.
Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com.
Also mentioned in this episode:
• Paris wrote about consolidation in the film and television industries • . • Disney lobbied to extend copyright terms • and what it might mean when Mickey Mouse goes into the public domain • . • George Lucas describes how commercialism limits what kind of movies can be made • (17:18-18:40). • Hollywood is using AI to help decide which films get made • . • A Harry Potter television series • is in early development at HBO Max. • Books mentioned in this episode: “ The Future of Nostalgia • ” by Svetlana Boym, “ New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future • ” by James Bridle, “ Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization • ” by Alexander Galloway, “ The End of Forgetting: Growing Up with Social Media • ” by Kate Eichhorn, “ Radical Nostalgia: Spanish Civil War Commemoration in America • ” by Peter Glazer, and “ Left in the Past: Radicalism and the Politics of Nostalgia • ” by Alastair Bonnett. • Movies and shows mentioned in this episode: Ready Player One, San Junipero (Black Mirror), eXistenZ, The Matrix, and The Merchants of Cool • .
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How Nostalgia Serves Corporate Power w/ Grafton Tanner
- Af
- Episode
- 47
- Published
- 28. jan. 2021
- Forlag
- 0 Anmeldelser
- 0
- Episode
- 47 of 265
- Længde
- 51M
- Sprog
- Engelsk
- Format
- Kategori
- Fakta
Paris Marx is joined by Grafton Tanner to discuss how social media constantly resurfaces the past, why film and television uses nostalgia to keep us engaged, and whether there’s a way to wield nostalgia in pursuit of a better world.
Grafton Tanner is the author of “The Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech” and “Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts.” Grafton is also writing “The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia” for Repeater Books, due out in October 2021. Follow Grafton on Twitter as @GraftonTanner.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.
Find out more about Harbinger Media Network at harbingermedianetwork.com.
Also mentioned in this episode:
• Paris wrote about consolidation in the film and television industries • . • Disney lobbied to extend copyright terms • and what it might mean when Mickey Mouse goes into the public domain • . • George Lucas describes how commercialism limits what kind of movies can be made • (17:18-18:40). • Hollywood is using AI to help decide which films get made • . • A Harry Potter television series • is in early development at HBO Max. • Books mentioned in this episode: “ The Future of Nostalgia • ” by Svetlana Boym, “ New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future • ” by James Bridle, “ Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization • ” by Alexander Galloway, “ The End of Forgetting: Growing Up with Social Media • ” by Kate Eichhorn, “ Radical Nostalgia: Spanish Civil War Commemoration in America • ” by Peter Glazer, and “ Left in the Past: Radicalism and the Politics of Nostalgia • ” by Alastair Bonnett. • Movies and shows mentioned in this episode: Ready Player One, San Junipero (Black Mirror), eXistenZ, The Matrix, and The Merchants of Cool • .
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