The osmosis between Iranian exile, Oriental repertoires, and the commodification of nostalgia in film contemporary1 culture alludes to Disney reproduction East that is capitalized by Hollywood’s invisible hand. Orientalist logic via old civilization Achaemenid grandeur conveyed Hamid Naficy’s (1991) reference Edward Said’s (1978) ‘imaginary2 geography’—the inventive tool narration augments tale...

Contemporary feminisms are ineluctably drawn into comparisons with historic discourses, forms of praxis and tactical repertoires. While this can underscore points continuity commonality in ongoing struggles, it also result nostalgia for a more unified purposeful feminist politics. Kate Eichhorn argues that our interest should be to understand temporalities, particular the specific context which...

In this paper we explore the notion of creating personally evocative collections of content from publicly available material. Compared to the personal media that we look at, reminisce over, or personalise our offices with, public media offers the potential for a different type of nostalgia, signifiers of an era such as entertainment, products, or fashions. We focus on an office environment, whe...

Patricia D. Fox discusses in her article, "Fiction, Biography, Autobiography, and Postmodern Nostalgia in (Con)Texts of Return," the meditations, in novel and essay, of variously positioned writers and protagonists as each contemplates return to a never glimpsed or long-lost geographical and cultural center. Attempting to decipher the grounding in place and time, by heritage or tradition, Fox's...

utopian literature, in terms of content, includes the dream of a world with better and ideal conditions or an image of favorable and yet abstract (nowhere) world. based on a single main motivation, nostalgia and the desire to return to eternal origin and due to the intellectual paradigms form them, this genre has formed certain structures. from the perspective of realizing the origin and having...