Sunday, March 07, 2004
Getting über-nostalgic about nostalgia, A Werk in Progress
"Now we’re older and wiser, though, we can see what the game was all along: Kraftwerk, far from heartless automatons, were pure romantics. Like the best sci-fi – that most romantic of genres – they expressed a nostalgia for a lost future; as the future itself has outstripped it, it has finally sweetened into plain old nostalgia. And they may only have had one idea, but heavens, what a very good idea it was."
¶ 3/07/2004 12:51:00 PM
"Now we’re older and wiser, though, we can see what the game was all along: Kraftwerk, far from heartless automatons, were pure romantics. Like the best sci-fi – that most romantic of genres – they expressed a nostalgia for a lost future; as the future itself has outstripped it, it has finally sweetened into plain old nostalgia. And they may only have had one idea, but heavens, what a very good idea it was."
¶ 3/07/2004 12:51:00 PM
