Contemporary culture still relies on an old, inherited image of the future

Evidence

MF: I think that the concept of “nostalgia of the future” partly illustrates one of the paradoxes that I’m trying to get across through the book; for example, hauntological music is often accused of being nostalgic. To a certain extent this is true, but the point is: “nostalgic compared to what?” I mean, the whole twenty-first-century music scene could be described as nostalgic: where is the sense of the future now? Today, if you ask people what is “futuristic music”, they would reply electronic music from the Nineties, or even Kraftwerk, and stuff like that. In a way, we still rely on an old future. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2292

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines hauntological music’s ‘nostalgia of the future’ — nostalgia for an interrupted future rather than for a past era.
• XREF: connects to: Present cultural forms carry disengageable seeds of the future — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 190; Contemporary culture has naturalised retro-anachronism as its standard form — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2308; Higher culture’s remembered images point to a future that dissolves the present order. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 290 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Contemporary culture has naturalised retro-anachronism as its standard form #expands (0.82) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2308
• The concept of the future itself has a history #expands (0.80)
• Postmodern pastiche blurs the present into a timeless simulacral past #complicates (0.79) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 86
• Present cultural forms carry disengageable seeds of the future #expands (0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 190
• Modernism flowered between a usable past, uncertain present, and open future. #qualifies (0.77) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 180
• Culture has not undergone a genuine paradigm shift since the sixties #qualifies (0.76) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 382
• Higher culture’s remembered images point to a future that dissolves the present order. #qualifies (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 290
• Modern time conception treats the present as continually moving #expands (0.75) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 116
• The concept of the future itself has mutated across the twentieth century #expands (0.74)
• Eighties postmodern theory predicted today’s cultural blankness precisely #complicates (0.72) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 29