The Future of Nostalgia – FESCH.TV

FESCH.TV INFORMIERT:

This is the first edition of The Future of, a quarterly magazine, that seeks to reimagine, reclaim, and remap future potentialities of ideas that are shaping contemporary society. The aim of each edition is to deconstruct, recontextualise, and critically tackle notions that can be recuperated as valuable tools in developing a toolkit for a more livable, more just future. The first such idea that we seek to decipher is the convoluted concept of nostalgia. Our nostalgia is a doomed speculative tool that anticipates futures that never come. Our nostalgia is not our vulnerability, but our salvation and our antidote to a hyper-accelerated modernity. Our nostalgia is a nostalgia for the future: a radically new vision through which our relationship with time is reconfigured and in which a new temporal rhythm is proposed.

The Future of is a project developed by Kajet Journal and Dispozitiv Books. Forthcoming editions will focus on other relevant concepts in the constellation of contemporary life, such as The Future of Ghosts, The Future of Pop, The Future of the Real, The Future of the Future, and so on. The online project also exists in the form of a printed publication.

Editors: Petre Mogoș and Laura Naum
Fashion editor: Robert Antoniac
Graphic designer: Aliona Ciobanu
Video and sound: Aliona Ciobanu

The project is co-funded by the Administration of the National Cultural Fund and Kajet Journal. The project does not necessarily represent the position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The Administration of the National Cultural Fund is not responsible for the content of this project, nor for how the results of the project are used. These are entirely the responsibility of the organiser.