Return to archaic form can itself be a rendering of future shock

Evidence

If Little Axe appear at first sight to be a retreat from full-on future shock – McDonald returning to his first encounter with music, when he learned blues on his father’s guitar – we are not dealing here the familiar, tiresome story of a ‘mature’ disavowal of modernism in the name of a re-treading of Trad form. In fact, Little Axe’s anachronistic temporality can be seen as yet another rendering of future shock; except that this time, it is the vast unassimilable trauma, the SF catastrophe, of slavery that is being confronted. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 300

Categorization

• DEFINE: Redefines ‘anachronistic temporality’ as future shock applied to slavery, not as nostalgic retreat from modernism.
• XREF: Extends the book’s core hauntology thesis: the past-as-suppressed-return evidenced elsewhere via Burial and Ghost Box. — connects to: Present experience re-encounters a past that was once a projected future. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 1068; Utopian impulses realize future projections disguised as nostalgia — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 299; Futures are increasingly represented in the forms of the past. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 515 (+2 more)
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• Present experience re-encounters a past that was once a projected future. #expands (0.80) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 1068
• Futures are increasingly represented in the forms of the past. #expands (0.80) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 515
• Utopian impulses realize future projections disguised as nostalgia #corroborates (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 299
• Foundational myths rewrite predicted futures as descriptions of an already-past beginning. #exemplifies (0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 828
• Modern panic over comprehensible existence parallels prehistoric fear of nature #corroborates (0.70)