Svetlana Boym

But it also carries a reflective aspect that imagines if our history had been more accepting, more diverse.

For more detail, I recommend the book The Future of Nostalgia by Svetlana Boym, and you can find the reference for that book in the show notes.

Restorative and reflective nostalgia run throughout this sub-genre of spy narratives, and therefore inform the discussions.

In this first episode, I chat with Sergio Angelini, host of the podcast Tipping My Fedora.

Nostalgia can misfire, and it can function as a profound deception.

This brings us to a vital distinction made by cultural theorist Svetlana Boym between two distinct types of nostalgia, reflective nostalgia and restorative nostalgia.

How do those differ in practice?

Reflective nostalgia is what we've mostly been talking about.

history and it's present.

There is, again, back to Svetlana Boym, there's this sense that we're not helpless in the face of all of this.

We are creative.

And will we survive? I don't know if we'll survive, but we'll certainly have a creative response to the problem.