Nostalgia for Nostalgia — Real Life
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How can we ever be nostalgic for media that never ends?
New Feelings Nostalgia for Nostalgia How can we ever be nostalgic for media that never ends? Alexandra Fiorentino-Swinton January 06, 2022 share http://reallifemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Nostalgia-for-Nostalgia.mp3 Full-text audio version of this essay. NEW FEELINGS is a column devoted to the desires, moods, pathologies, and identifications that rarely had names before digital media. Read the other installments here . “I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12,” types the grown-up protagonist in the final scene of the 1986 movie Stand By Me , “Does
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