Casha Mour – Modern Relics

In the world as it currently functions — replete with near-forced information overexposure, algorithmic idea siloing, and digital acceleration — even the most novel or contemporary ideas can so quickly seem to become rote and antiquated, sometimes within days. It’s no wonder then that all forms of nostalgia, even vicarious nostalgia for times we never experienced, become ubiquitous coping mechanisms. We collectively seek out the stability, warmth, and comfort of home — often homes we never inhabited in the first place. There’s a Welsh term for this: hiraeth, which describes an awareness of the presence of absence itself, a sweet ache for a sense of belonging, a wish to return to a place we can no longer access — or maybe one that never existed in the first place (anemoia is a similar term that was coined in 2012 as part of John Koenig’s collection of neologisms, Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows). Nostalgia was coined in the 1600s by Swiss physician Johannes Hofer to describe the extreme…

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