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The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia serves as a guide to the complex and often contradictory concept of nostalgia, as well as the field of "nostalgia studies" more broadly.Nostalgia is an area of intense interest across several disciplines as well as within society and culture more generally. This handbook brings together an international, interdisciplinary team of researchers to survey the current landscape and identify common trends, achievements and gaps in existing literature. Comprising forty-five chapters, the volume covers the following topics: Disciplinary perspectives of nostalgias including philosophy, history, literature, and psychology. Conceptual aspects of nostalgia including homesickness, temporality, affectivity, and memory. Historical and political dimensions such as afro-nostalgia, populism, feminism, and queer nostalgia. Spatial and material aspects of nostalgia including ruins, regionalism, and objects. Media related nostalgia such as analogue and digital nostalgia, reboots, revivals, gaming, and graphic novels. Essential reading for students and researchers working in nostalgia studies, this book will also be beneficial to related disciplines such as philosophy, anthropology, geography, history and literature; cultural, media, heritage, museum and film studies courses; and more generally for readers interested in how the past is represented and used in the present.

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the different ways in which the past remains present in Western popular culture in the twenty-first century. It combines theoretical analyses with case study-based chapters focusing on examples from Britain, the US, and Germany, among other countries. In doing so, it pushes beyond a simplistic and monolithic conception of what 'nostalgia' is to allow for a more nuanced and varied conceptualisation of this phenomenon, and to also incorporate other ways of understanding the invoking or inclusion of different histories within cultural objects, formats, and practices.

Decision-makers in industry, legislation, and society need to be equipped with the right knowledge about the 4th Industrial Revolution, the Internet of Things, and how technological innovation will shape the world of tomorrow. This book explains, what you need to know about Digitalization and the innovation momentum driving it. Technological progress has never been faster than it is today, and the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution frightens many stakeholders. Tobias Becker, a 25-year engineering world veteran at the forefront of innovation explains the fundamental mechanisms of innovation, their culmination in technological revolutions, and how these have always generated value for the human species.Becker lays out a unique concept of four Realms of Innovation, which are the base of all technological inventions. He demonstrates their context and critical contributions to the progress and the survival of humanity throughout history and today.Digitalization, the latest round of revolutionary technological progress, stands in a long line of advancement towards the optimization of human existence on our planet. Each Industrial Revolution left its footprints, both good and bad. Digitalization has the potential to mitigate some of the shortcomings of earlier industrial developments. However, it will take enormous efforts from all stakeholders to ensure that the balance tips fast enough towards the benefits.

Nostalgia, supposedly, is the sphere of the sentimentalist. But also, and most definitely, it is a force in the creation of the present and future and thus worth careful thought. Yesterday argues that nostalgiäs critics defend an idea of progress as naïve as the longing they denounce, while conflating nostalgia itself with historical whitewashing.

Provides an open perspective on the Bauhaus through a compilation of essays, links, data, references, and anecdotes. Text in English and German.