Love Vaporwave and love this reading of it. It’s conflicting to enjoy a utopian vision that’s based mostly on a shared consumer memory, and I can’t always tell if the call center corporate jazz and classical statues are aspirational or mere ruins. Mostly, I think vaporwave acts as a sonic memory system for rediscovering what digital hope feels like. Thanks!
"Rediscovering digital hope" is an excellent description of what seeing generationally defining consumer objects of the past evokes. Reviving the feeling rather than yearning for the material conditions of the past can differentiate utopia from nostalgia.
Love Vaporwave and love this reading of it. It’s conflicting to enjoy a utopian vision that’s based mostly on a shared consumer memory, and I can’t always tell if the call center corporate jazz and classical statues are aspirational or mere ruins. Mostly, I think vaporwave acts as a sonic memory system for rediscovering what digital hope feels like. Thanks!
"Rediscovering digital hope" is an excellent description of what seeing generationally defining consumer objects of the past evokes. Reviving the feeling rather than yearning for the material conditions of the past can differentiate utopia from nostalgia.
Thank you so much for this update! I am sad that the 6/6 Jazz event has sold out. Hopeful that we can see another offering this summer.
Thanks for reading, Deborah! We'll be posting our events on the newsletter as well as the website--hope to see you at one of them!