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THE HOURS HAVE LOST THEIR CLOCK - GRAFTON TANNE...

The Hours Have Lost Their Clock charts the rise of nostalgia in an era knocked out of time. In
The Hours Have Lost Their Clock  Grafton Tanner charts the rise of nostalgia in an era knocked
out of time. Nostalgia is the defining emotion of our age. Political leaders promise a return
to yesteryear. Old movies are remade and cancelled series are rebooted. Veterans reenact past
wars  while the displaced across the world long for home. But who is behind this collective
ache for a home in the past? Do we need to eliminate nostalgia  or just cultivate it better?
And what is at stake if we make the wrong choice? Moving from the fight over Confederate
monuments to the birth of homeland security to the mourning of species extinction  Grafton
Tanner traces nostalgia s ascent in the twenty-first century  revealing its power as both a
consequence of our unstable time and a defense against it. With little faith in a future of
climate change and economic anxiety  many have turned to nostalgia to weather the present 
while powerful elites exploit it for their own gain. An exploration into the politics of loss
and yearning  The Hours Have Lost Their Clock is an urgent call to take nostalgia seriously.
The very future depends on it.

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