Pastiche, nostalgia, & why we can't create anything new

Video from The War on Beauty

Pastiche, nostalgia, & why we can't create anything new

"There is an interesting phenomenon unique to our post-modern time where we are nostalgic for the very recent past, not just the 80s or 90s, but even the 2010s. Frederic Jameson’s 1982 essay “Postmodernism and Consumer Society” offers a potential explanation for this phenomenon in the rise of pastiche and the “death of the subject,” which has been exacerbated by addictive algorithms and 24/7 media and news cycles.

Instead of forming a unique personal identity that is then understood over time (the conditions that gave rise to the brilliant artists of the past), we have become fragmented, amnesiac, and ultimately, programmable algorithms ourselves, in this post-modern “perpetual present.” from the video introduction

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