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JORDAN SAND
The Spaces of the Modern City, 06/2021Book Chapter
The constant social upheaval of capitalism has provoked repeated waves of nostalgic response since at least the early nineteenth century. In a now-common description of postmodern consumer culture, nostalgia itself became big business in the late twentieth century, and the past became no more than a plaything of the culture industries. But we may also see in the huge efflorescence of nostalgia—or rather nostalgias plural—in mass society since the 1970s one aspect of a new configuration of social forces, a new arena of struggle even, matched to the structures of capitalism that have emerged. Environmentalist movements, consumer movements,
