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A Breath of Relief From This Fast-Paced World

A Breath of Relief From This Fast-Paced World

On Consumed Nostalgia

From: On Nostalgia

Both nostalgia and consumerism satisfy a longing, an attempt to satisfy impossible desires. Consumerism, as in the most important role for a person is somone who buys things, and a history of … 23 $2.30 Add
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Conclusion

Conclusion

The Memory of Ourselves

From: On Nostalgia

Nostalgia is an acutely modern condition. As our future seems more in doubt, our past seems to offer more clarity and comfort. Beyond that, nostalgia helps us reconcile the dissonence of our … 3 $0.30 Add
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Great Again

Great Again

On Political Nostalgia

From: On Nostalgia

This chapter examines nostalgia in modern democracies, where generalized nostalgia binds individuals into a mass movement through its vagueness. The dissonance between nostlagia and how politics … 23 $2.30 Add
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I’m Just So Tired of All These Star Wars

I’m Just So Tired of All These Star Wars

On Art and Nostalgia

From: On Nostalgia

Modern nostalgia in novel and flim is discussed, using examples of Ready Player One, Back to the Future, American Graffitti, Indiana Jones, and the introduction of prequels with Star Wars. … 22 $2.20 Add
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Interaction Patterns

Interaction Patterns

Patterns of Domination and Patterns of Resistance

From: The Power Manual

Interaction Patterns, highlights the thinking of Audre Lorde, Roland Barthes, and Franz Fanon. Lorde identified difference as the key factor that triggers power dynamics, or unequal interactions. … 9 $0.90 Add
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Introduction

Introduction

Play It Once Again

From: On Nostalgia

The introduction discusses paradise as a place where nothing ever happens, as in the song "Heaven" by the Talking Heads. It also discusses the tension in nostalgia between the loss, the … 3 $0.30 Add
On Nostalgia

On Nostalgia

On Nostalgia is a panoramic cultural history of nostalgia, exploring how a force that started as a psychological diagnosis of soldiers fighting far from home has come become a quintessentially … 161 View
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Spineless Admiration

Spineless Admiration

On Anti-Nostalgia

From: On Nostalgia

The author details how nostalgia is regarded with suspicion from academic to widespread cultural use. Advocates of dismissing the past, and their perpective of the world as just and meritocratic … 19 $1.90 Add
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Supreme Choice

Supreme Choice

Mastery Over Inner Experience

From: The Power Manual

Supreme Choice, furthers the thinking on Supreme Power introduced in chapter 5. It concludes the section on choice by asserting that one ultimately has choice over everything one experiences. It … 6 $0.60 Add
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That’s What She Said

That’s What She Said

On the Future of Nostalgia

From: On Nostalgia

In this chapter the author points out that we don’t know what we’ve got until it’s gone and we don’t even know when it will go. The question "Why is it that nostalgia … 25 $2.50 Add
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The Body Language Game

The Body Language Game

Sign Reading

From: The Power Manual

The Body Language game comes from the field of theater. Actors play it to learn the subtle differences in status between characters — how they manifest and are transformed. The purpose of … 4 $0.40 Add
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The Character Study Game

The Character Study Game

Reconsruction

From: The Power Manual

The Character Study game is from the field of theater. Actors play it to learn how to understand their character. The goal for the actor is to live truthfully under imaginary circumstances. Good … 5 $0.50 Add
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The Circle Game

The Circle Game

Reconsruction

From: The Power Manual

The Circle game is from the field of theater. Actors play it to learn how to be in tune with the other actors on stage. When on stage, even if the actor is not directly interacting with another … 4 $0.40 Add
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The Continuous Vibration of Animal Spirits:

The Continuous Vibration of Animal Spirits:

On the Why of Nostalgia

From: On Nostalgia

This chapter discusses nostalgia as a feeling, and the history of nostalgia, from antiquity to the present, moving out of the medical into the cultural realm. Why it is important to describe … 21 $2.10 Add
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The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another

The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another

Talking Ourselves to Extinction

From: Peak Everything

Language is a powerful meta-tool that dramatically amplifies cooperative human efforts to control the environment. Language also opens the possibility for religion and science — which … 14 $1.40 Add
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The Lane Game

The Lane Game

Reconsruction

From: The Power Manual

The Lane game is from the field of theater. Actors play it to learn how to be in tune with the other actors on stage. When on stage, even if the actor is not directly interacting with another … 4 $0.40 Add