Almost Remember

Almost Touch

Answer A Question No One Asked

Answer Before You Ask

Are Mostly Memory

Burn Like Iron

Burn Like Paper

Create Longing

Curate Themselves

Exist Mostly In The Mind

Feel Overnight

Feel Secondhand

Feel Weatherless

Gender You Slowly

Glow Neon

Hold A Grudge Lightly

Hum With Almost-Memory

Make Absence Visible

Make You Notice The Ordinary

Need You Too Much

Recruit The Past

Remember For You

Remember You Wrong

Return

Ring Like Chlorine

Ring Like Midnight

Ring Like Rain

Ring Like Summer

Ring Like Vinegar

Smell Like Chlorine

Smell Like Copper

Smell Like Midnight

Smell Like Paper

Smell Like Rain That Never Falls

Smell Like Whisky

Smell Like Wood

Sound Like Copper

Sound Like Glue

Sound Like Midnight

Spend The Past

Stick Like Ash

Stick Like Copper

Stick Like Midnight

Stick Like Summer

Stick Like Wine

Taste Like Almost

Taste Like Echo

Taste Like Lint

Taste Like Midnight

Taste Like Morning

Taste Like Sugar

Weigh Like Midnight

Weigh Like Rope

Weigh Like Vinegar

Weigh Like Winter

Things You Only Notice When They're Gone

nostalgia

backward

dad joke

cell phone

algebra

mathematics

middle age

back pain

anxiety

modernity

stress

dating

memory

Facebook

childhood

tire

adulthood

emotion

play

1980s

Several sorts of memory exist in us... body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory. Honore de Balzac

is a moment in the structure of modern consciousness and novelistic form.

Kawabata's rather sentimental traditionalism is not as simple as it appears at first... nostalgia is a moment in the structure of modern consciousness and, a fortiori, novelistic form. This is why his story has much to tell us about the nature and possibilities of modern society. (Feenberg 1994 : 108)

is a sadness without an object. It is always ideological because the past it seeks has never existed except as narrative, and hence, continually threatens to reproduce itself as a felt lack.

Nostalgia is a sadness without an object, a sadness which creates alonging that of necessity is inauthentic because it does not take part inlived experience. Rather, it remains behind and before that experience. Nostalgia, like any form of narrative, is always ideological: the past itseeks has never existed except as narrative, and hence, always absent,that past continually threatens to reproduce itself as a felt lack.

is an ambivalent longing to erase the temporal difference between subject and object of desire, shot through with not only the impossibility but also the ultimate unwillingness to reinstate what was lost.

Thus the consuming and consumable pleasures of nostalgia as an ambivalent longing to erase the temporal difference between subject and object of desire, shot through with not only the impossiblitity but also the ultimate unwillingness to reinstate what was lost. For the loss of nostalgia-- that is, the loss of the desire to long for what is lost because one has found the lost object-- can be more unwelcome than the original loss itself. Despite its labors to recover the past and deny the losses of 'tradition', modernist nostalgia must preserve, in many senses, the sense of absence that motivates its desires' (Ivy 1995 : 10)

is like a grammar lesson in that one finds the present tense but the past perfect.

like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense but the past perfect!

is not justified by the beauty of the past. Nostalgia produces beauty as its effect.

The classical age is pivotal in all your writings. Do you feel nostalgia for the clarity of that age or for the 'visibility' of the Renaissance when everything was unified and displayed'' Foucault replies. . . .'All of this beauty of old times is an effect of and not a reason for nostalgia' (Foucault 'truth, power, self' : 2)

 assumes its full meaning only when the real is no longer what it used to be.

when the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.

is capable of transforming experience. It is the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. Fyodor Dostoevsky

nostalgia, n.Definitions

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