Chronic travel sickness can complement rather than oppose homesickness in modern music

Evidence

So this is Goodbye is a very travel sick record. It expresses what we might call nomadalgia. Nomadalgia, the sickness of travel, would be a complement to, not the opposite of, the sickness for home, nostalgia. (And what of the relation between nomadalgia and hauntology?) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 495

Categorization

• QUESTION: Fisher himself poses the open question of how nomadalgia relates to the book’s core hauntology concept — a thread worth chasing.
• XREF: Connects directly to the book’s overarching hauntology project and the earlier claim that pervasive nostalgia signals inability to make new memories. — connects to: Media technologies offer only new forms of loneliness across successive eras — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 493; All music either embeds or disrupts habituated behaviour patterns; Pervasive cultural nostalgia signals an inability to make new memories — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 249 (+1 more)
• CANDY: The coinage ‘nomadalgia’ as a complement to nostalgia is a compact, shareable insight about the modern condition.

Broader Connections

• All music either embeds or disrupts habituated behaviour patterns #complicates (0.78)
• Pervasive cultural nostalgia signals an inability to make new memories #complicates (0.75) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 249