Nostalgia for a Human

Podbrzezie Gallery 3 Podbrzezie Street, Kraków, Poland

Svetlana Boym writes: The twentieth century began with a futuristic utopia and ended with nostalgia. The optimistic belief in the future has become outmoded while nostalgia, for better or for worse, never went out of fashion, remaining uncannily contemporary. Boym, a renowned cultural theorist, identifies two types of nostalgia: restorative and reflective. The first is […]