Dr. Shaun Duke, Professional Nerd

Editor. Writer. Professor. Host.

Nostalgic Paris: Misery, Imagination, and Nostalgia in Midnight in Paris

Perhaps the most potent problem of our modern era is its obsession with nostalgia. In its least malignant form, nostalgia becomes an excessive love of art and fashion playfully removed from the socio-political conditions of its creation. In its most malignant form, nostalgia turns people into cult-like fascists who desire a return to a time […]