Hauntology vs Nostalgia - What's the difference?
hauntology | nostalgia |
In Derridan philosophy, the paradoxical state of the spectre, which is neither being nor nonbeing. A longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.
A bittersweet yearning for the things of the past.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-16, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
, volume=189, issue=10, page=20, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Reminiscence of the speaker's childhood or younger years.
As nouns the difference between hauntology and nostalgia
is that hauntology is in Derridan philosophy, the paradoxical state of the spectre, which is neither being nor nonbeing while nostalgia is a longing for home or familiar surroundings; homesickness.hauntology
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(-)nostalgia
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(en noun)This is the cutest article, passage= I can't have been the only person, last week, to feel a rush of nostalgia upon learning that Thames Water had removed a bus-sized, 15-tonne lump of food fat ("mixed with wet wipes") from the sewers under London. The fatberg was an August news story redolent of the old-fashioned silly season.}}