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A boom of nostalgia marks our time. The past, in its increasingly profound ubiquity, permeates our experiences, intertwines with the patterns of everyday life and plays a central role in shaping our interpretation of the present. The contemporary imaginary feeds on this tension toward nostalgia, transforming it into an aesthetic and affective principle that spreads through culture like an epidemic: it creeps into the fabric of media communication, crosses intergenerational memory, takes roots in popular culture, speaks the language of capitalism and shapes political and social representations. Nostalgia is an emotional and cultural response, an indicator for understanding our relationship with temporality. This book aims to explore the nostalgic imaginary as a social emotion, capable of multiple meanings and opening new perspectives on how the sensitive traces of the past, fragments of memory and retro atmospheres play a crucial role in affecting our lives. Welcome to the time of nostalgia...
