Contemporary culture has naturalised retro-anachronism as its standard form

Evidence

One of the most penetrating things of Jameson’s analysis is this awareness of a particular form of anachronism that was emerging and calling attention to itself: if you think about a film like Body Heat, it was set in the Eighties and it had a contemporary aesthetic, but the feel was something from film noir of the Thirties and Forties. Now, that mixture of contemporary settings and out-of-date references is exactly the standard for so much culture of the twenty-first century. We naturalised anachronism. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2308

Categorization

• XREF: Body Heat as the ur-example of the nostalgic-popular mode resembles the ‘hauntological’ media-palimpsest idea from ch66 and postmodern-nostalgia critique in ch34; connects to Jameson’s ‘nostalgia for the present’. — connects to: Post-1960s millennialism freely blends traditions into conspiracist bricolage — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 110; Post-2008 culture remains dominated by pre-crash aesthetic forms — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1595; Postmodern pastiche blurs the present into a timeless simulacral past — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 86 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Postmodern pastiche blurs the present into a timeless simulacral past #corroborates (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 86
• Postmodernism elevates modernist aberrations into its dominant cultural logic #expands (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 216
• The postmodern present recasts all prior art as nostalgia and cultural stereotype #complicates (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 395
• Postmodernism represents the plebeianization of modernist culture #complicates (0.75) — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 271