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Technostalgia of the Present: From Technologies of Memory to a Memory of Technologies
van der Heijden, Tim
2015In Necsus: European Journal of Media Studies, 4 (2), p. 103-121
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Keywords :
Technostalgia; Super 8; Vintage; Media technologies; Memory practices; Remediation
Abstract :
[en] This article reflects on today’s ‘technostalgic’ trend in media culture by examining the various ways in which Super 8 film as a media technology from the past is re-appropriated and remediated in contemporary memory practices. By looking specifically at restorative and reflective forms of technostalgia manifest in the project Bye Bye Super 8 – In Loving Memory of Kodachrome (2011) and the digital smartphone app iSupr8 (2011), the author explores how in contemporary memory practices media technologies not only construct and mediate memories but have also become the objects of memory themselves. While analysing this double mnemonic process – accounting for both the memory construction by the media technology and the reminiscence of the media technology itself – it is argued that we currently witness a new kind of memory practice enforcing an attentive shift from technologies of memory to a memory of technologies.
Disciplines :
History
Author, co-author :
van der Heijden, Tim ;  Universiteit Maastricht > Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
Technostalgia of the Present: From Technologies of Memory to a Memory of Technologies
Publication date :
2015
Journal title :
Necsus: European Journal of Media Studies
ISSN :
2213-0217
Publisher :
Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Special issue title :
Vintage
Volume :
4
Issue :
2
Pages :
103-121
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Name of the research project :
Changing Platforms of Ritualized Memory Practices. The Cultural Dynamics of Home Movies
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