That idea of going back and finally being able to reach that utopia in the past actually helps to sell products and ideas very well by this thing.

And you too might be able to be able to go back to the path.

Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us.

I'm your host, Paris Marks, and this week my guest is Grafton Tanner.

Grafton is the author of The Circle of the Snake, nostalgia and utopia in the age of big tech,

and babbling corpse, vapor wave, and the Commodification of Ghosts.

He's also writing another book for Repeater Books that will come out in October 2021,

called The Hours Have Lost Their Clock, The Politics of Nostalgia.

And you can obviously find links for more information in the show notes.

Our conversation today is guided by Grafton's latest book, The Circle of the Snake, and we discuss the way that nostalgia seems

more and more common in modern society, in our politics, and in particular how technology

and social media streaming services, things like that, are presenting us with content

that will make us nostalgic more often and kind of trigger that emotional nostalgic response.

We dive into how that works, but also the implications of that, what it means for our society and

how we think about the technologies that we use and whether

they are producing the kind of outcomes that we want to see.

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