Category: Nostalgia

Nostalgia Construct The term nostalgia was first used by Johannes Hoffer in 1688, and since then has been studied from a variety of perspectives. Looking into nostalgias origins, it derives from two Greek roots nostos and algos. First, nostos, to return home/ to ones native land. Secondly, the root algos, or pain, suffering, or grief,…

In the play Waiting for Godot, the two characters Vladimir and Estragon wait for an unknown person named Godot who never arrives. When the two hobos thought about taking their lives, they waited to hear what Godot thinks. While Godot never shows up, the two men also forget about what happened in the previous day.…

We currently notice that people are having a strong interest in new media culture in media technologies from the past and its sense of nostalgia and it is seen clearly in Instagram filters nowadays. People instead of sharing airbrushed and photoshopped photos, they keep trying to filter their digital photographs to design an old stylistic…

From an evolutionary perspective, we all come from different environments and genetic combinations. These factors, along with many others, influence the development of humans. Life History Theory categorizes two different life strategies between slow and fast lifestyles. To distinguish one another, fast life strategists derive from unstable, unpredictable, and uncontrollable environments. Slow life strategists derive…

Matthew Vaughns X-Men: First Class is a fascinating depiction of the 1960s. X-Men dabbles in period nostalgia as it gazes into the future, using the Cuban Missile Crisis as a backdrop to explore how the past informs the present. First Class is primarily a historical fantasy that places its characters at the center of the…

The word Nostalgia derives from the Greek word nóstos, which means return home (Davis, 1977) and álgos that signifies pain or longing. This term is frequently interconnected to the suffering from homesickness, melancholy and anxiety (Wilson, 2014). By the late twentieth century, nostalgia is no longer looked upon as a mental disorder, but regarded as…

The word Nostalgia derives from the Greek word nóstos, which means return home (Davis, 1977) and álgos that signifies pain or longing. This term is frequently interconnected to the suffering from homesickness, melancholy and anxiety (Wilson, 2014). By the late twentieth century, nostalgia is no longer looked upon as a mental disorder, but regarded as…