Period settings become style quotations rather than lived worlds once fully aestheticized

Evidence

The game that you can’t help playing as you watch is: how convincing is the simulation of 1973? You’re constantly on the look out for period anachronisms. The answer is that it isn’t very convincing. But not because of anachronisms. The problem is that this is a 73 that doesn’t feel lived in. The actual post-psychedelic, quasi-Eastern Bloc seediness of the 70s is unretrievable; kitsch wallpaper and bell bottoms are transformed instantly into Style quotations the moment the camera falls upon them. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 170

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the existing note that the past is a target of systematic underestimation by PR, and to Ben Lerner’s argument about representation and the present. — connects to: Total visibility and memorialization destroy an object’s power to trigger involuntary memory — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 172; Period films fail when actors lack the weathered grain of an era — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 168; Postmodern quotation blocks demystification because all materials are equally degraded — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 233 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Postmodern quotation blocks demystification because all materials are equally degraded #expands (0.82) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 233
• Contemporary art exhausted stylistic innovation and collapsed into speculation and irony #exemplifies (0.80) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 725
• Defining Postmodernism as internal to Modernism abandons its periodizing claim #contradicts (0.75)