The Hours Have Lost Their Clock charts the rise of Nostalgia in an era knocked out of time.
He lectures at the University of Georgia..
His work has appeared in The Nation and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
About author(s): Grafton Tanner is the author of Babbling Corpse and The Circle of the Snake.
Our very future depends on it.
From biased algorithms to the birth of homeland security, and from the rise of far-right extremism to the gentrification of memory itself, The Hours Have Lost Their Clock argues for a resistance against nostalgia.
The longer we live with endless wars, technological determinism, and economic austerity, he writes, the more nostalgic we will be.
Moving from the fight over racist monuments to the collective mourning of species extinction, he traces nostalgia\'s ascent in the twenty-first century, revealing its power as both a consequence of our unstable time and a defense against it.
In The Hours Have Lost Their Clock, Grafton Tanner argues that Nostalgia is the defining emotion of our time.
With little faith in a future of global warming and economic anxiety, many turn to this centuries-old emotion to weather the present.
Others induce it to manipulate populations.
Some use the emotion to resist oppressive regimes.
Remakes and reboots dominate the box office.
Political leaders promise a return to yesteryear.
Nostalgia has broken out across the world.
The Hours Have Lost Their Clock charts the rise of Nostalgia in an era knocked out of time
