Forgotten chart pop can function as time-travel triggers into a past era

Evidence

Peace says that he first puts himself into the past, and then imagines. It’s like method writing, or time travel. Peace has tried and tested tricks to get back. He uses jaundiced newsprint, books but most of all pop — not the stuff he would have listened to himself, then, and has listened to ever since, but the songs that, ubiquitous then, forgotten now, can function as audio-madeleines. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 223

Categorization

• CANDY: “audio-madeleines” — ubiquitous-then-forgotten-now pop songs as Proustian triggers — a compact, shareable image.
• XREF: Connects directly to Ballard chapters and to Fisher’s recurring interest in pop as coded cultural history. — connects to: The chronology protection conjecture might prevent time travel effects. — Hawking, Stephen, A Brief History of Time, 305; Present experience re-encounters a past that was once a projected future. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 1068; A time loop’s uncanny charge depends on fatalism; open timelines dissolve it into affectlessness — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 760

Broader Connections

• The chronology protection conjecture might prevent time travel effects. #qualifies (0.80) — Hawking, Stephen, A Brief History of Time, 305
• Present experience re-encounters a past that was once a projected future. #expands (0.75) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 1068
• A time loop’s uncanny charge depends on fatalism; open timelines dissolve it into affectlessness #corroborates (0.72) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 760