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Getting one's groove on, A.K.A. busting a move, is an age-old tradition that dates back more than 50,000 years to the time of Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon humans, who rhythmically writhed to ...
Iszi Lawrence explores the past and present of nostalgia with Dr. Agnes Arnold-Forster , author of Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion, Prof. Krystine Batcho who devised the Nostalgia ...
The trick to long-lasting friendships, it turns out, may be nostalgia. According to a new study in Cognition and Emotion, people who think more about the past tend to have more friends, and it may be ...
In The Nostalgia Trap, Vasu Agarwal ’28 explores our culture’s obsession with reviving the past — through reboots, fashion, music and more — and what it means for creativity today.
Real roots. For nostalgia to work, a brand needs genuine ownership of the period – it’s got to ring true. We work with Hooch and Reef, and for them, nostalgia absolutely makes sense.
Adam Rutherford with Venki Ramakrishnan, Charan Ranganath and Agnes Arnold-Forster ...
But nostalgia was not always just a feeling. Historian Agnes Arnold Forster tells Claudia and the panel that once it was viewed as a disease so deadly that it appeared on thousands of death ...
First there was greenwashing and rainbow-washing; now there’s nostalgia-washing, which can be just as detrimental for brands. The art of looking to the past to emotionally engage consumers in the ...
Nostalgia, Agnes Arnold-Forster (Picador) This is a shrewd analysis of the nostalgia condition – that wistful, sentimental yearning for the past rooted in dissatisfaction about the present ...
Rockers, ravers, goths and grunge. Since the turn of the century, we’ve been in cycles of reference to what came before. Here, HypeFactory’s Daria Belova shows how nostalgia took over social ...
In her excellent and engrossing new study, “Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion,” the historian Agnes Arnold-Forster echoes Boym, reporting that 19th-century physicians saw nostalgia ...