Nostalgia 3

Dr. Will Kurlinkus

 š Keep it interesting with intriguing insights, facts, and
observations. Place your most important observations
in what I call “power sentences,” short “this is that”
form sentences designed to make your audience
curious. Start with intrigue/question.
š Everything we’re going to talk about represents a

Choosing your
one-tenth of one percent glimpse, because that’s
all we’ve seen.

theory
š Fifty percent of the United States of America lies
beneath the sea
š The greatest mountain range on Earth lies under
narration the ocean.
š Most of our planet is in eternal darkness.
topic. š You can use images and videos in this same manner.
š Break your audience’s guessing machine: What does
the everyday person know about your topic? How can
you surprise us? This should be the focus of your
presentation.
What is neostalgia? Is OKBOOMER and Example?

š Neostalgia: longing for futures that could have been.

š “The obvious landmarks of tomorrow’s world never materialized:
vacations to the moon, 900 miles per hour transatlantic trains hurtling
through vacuum tunnels. But the absence is felt equally in the fabric of
daily life, the way that the experience of cooking an egg or taking a
shower hasn’t changed in our lifetime. Nostalgia for the future,
neostalgia—whatever you wanna call this peculiar unrequited
feeling…” —Simon Reynolds
š Afro-futurism: artistic movement led by black authors, musicians,
clothing designers, et al. that imagines a future in which black scientists,
aliens, and robots rule. To invent such futures the genre draws on
nostalgic African (often Egyptian) pasts. What if, afrofuturism asks, black
traditions and epistemologies had always grounded technology and
the future?
#OKBOOMER
What goes into a good
nostalgia listacle?