Anthropocene nostalgia for the 1980s in Netflix’s Stranger Things

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicja Relidzyńska

Expressions of nostalgia for the 1980s in contemporary American culture are diverse. The most interesting of them go beyond a wistful longing for the past. A complex ‘nostalgia trip’ offered by Netflix’s Stranger Things serves as a notable case study of a distinctive type of this sentiment. Instead of yearning for the restoration of previous times, it plays with past aesthetics in a critically articulate manner, effectively demythologizing the depicted decade. I argue that this significant alteration of the traditional sentiment stems largely from the recent acknowledgment of the Anthropocene and its irreversibility. This article aims to examine the peculiar, self-aware, paradoxical nostalgia, which is coloured by the current, Anthropocene-induced fears for the environment and, thus, our future. The analysis of Stranger Things – its thematics, genre, visuals and the meticulously reconstructed image of the presented era – draws parallels to the techniques employed by the ‘novel nostalgia’: bitter, ironic depiction of the past and references to natural phenomena. The study thus investigates the show at the intersection of contemporary nostalgia for the 1980s and the cultural repercussions of the Anthropocene. In so doing, it will unravel the innovation in the programme’s discourse on the 1980s decade in American culture.

Author(s):  
محمد علي غوري (Mohamed Ali Ghuri)

ملخص البحث:كان الاتجاه الإسلامي في الأدب ثالث أهم الاتجاهات التي تجاذبت الأدب، وخاصة في مجال القصة والرواية. و كان جل كتاب القصة الأوائل ذوي نكهة إسلامية إصلاحية، ومن هؤلاء نذير أحمد وسرشار وعبد الحليم شرر الذي كان له تأثير كبير في أهم الروائيين الإسلاميين في باكستان، وهو نسيم حجازي الذي تميز كأستاذه بالروايات التاريخية. وهذا النوع من الروايات هو الذي ميز الروائيين الإسلاميين أكثر من أي نوع آخر من الروايات، ومع ذلك كتب نسيم حجازي روايات واقعية ذات مستوى عالمي، وِمن أهم هذه الروايات الواقعية روايته "خاك أور خون" ومعناها: التراب والدم. وهذه الرواية كغيرها من الروايات الباكستانية التي كتبت بعد قيام باكستان عام 1947م تناولت موضوع الهجرة الكبرى والمشاكل التي نجمت عنها، فكانت محاولة نسيم حجازي والآخرين لتذكير المسلمين بما فعله الهندوس والسيخ في رجالهم ونسائهم وأطفالهم وشيوخهم، لذا فإن هذه الرواية ممنوعة من التداول في الهند التي لا تفتؤ تحاول القضاء على كل ما له علاقة بالإسلام، وما جريمة هدم المسجد البابري عنا ببعيد! ويقال عن رواية التراب والدم إنها سيرة كاتبها الذاتية، حيث أودعها أفكاره وآراءه ومواقفه من القضايا المختلفة، وقد انطلق في كل ذلك من منطلق إسلامي واضح، فأحيا بها –أي بهذا الرواية- كثيراً من المعاني الإسلامية التي كادت تغيب عن الساحة الأدبية اليوم، فهي بحق رواية إسلامية عالمية تستحق الدراسة والتحليل.الكلمات المفتاحية: الأدب الإسلامي-الأدب الأردي-رواية "خاك أور خون-المحتوى-روائع الأدب الإسلامي. Abstract:The trend of Islamic literature in the third world is the most important trends studied literature, in the area of the story and the novel. Most of novelists in the past were those with an Islamic flavor reform, as Nazir Ahmad, Sarchar, and Abdul Halim Sharar, whom had a significant impact on the most important novelists of the Islamists in Pakistan Nasiim Hijazi, who characterized as his teacher about historical novels. This kind of novels is distinguished novelists Islamists more than any other type of novels. However, Nasiim Hijazi wrote realistic novels in international level, the most important of which is “Khac or Khun” (the dust and blood). This novel, like other novels of Pakistan, was written after the establishment of Pakistan in 1947 and deals with The Great Migration and the problems that caused it. It was an attempt from Nasiim Hijazi and others to remind Muslims what the Hindus and Sikhs did with the Muslims. This novel was banned from trading in India that was trying to eliminate everything has relation Islamic. The crime of destroying the Babri mosque is not far away from the event.  It is said that the novel is as  a biography of  the author, where he includes  his ideas, his views and viewpoints from various issues, where his assumption was from an Islamic perspective, to  revive - through this novel - a lot of Islamic meanings which  are almost absent from the literary study nowadays . It is truly a global Islamic novel.ListenRead phonetically.Keywords: Islamic Literature- Urdu Literature- Novel "Khak Oor Khoon"- Contents- The Beauty of Islamic Literature. Abstrak: Pendekatan islam merupakan pendekatan ketiga yang penting yang paling mendapat perhatian dalam bidang sastera terutamanya dalam bidang penulisan cerita dan novel. Kebanyakan novel-novel yang terawal telah mendapat nafas baru menerusi pendekatan islam seperti yang yang telah dihasilkan oleh Nazir Ahmad Srchar, Abdul Halim Sharar yang telah memberi kesan yang mendalam kepada penulis-penulis yang beragama islam di Pakistan terutamanya Nasim Hijazi yang terkenal dengan penghasilan novel-novel sejarah. Genre novel berunsurkan sejarah islam Hal ini telah menaikkan nama penulis-penulis islam berbanding genre yang lain. Oleh itu, kebanyakan karya yang dihasilkan oleh Nasim Hijazi merupakan karya yang realistik bertaraf dunia terutamanya novel “Khac Orr Khan” yang bermaksud “Tanah dan Darah”. Novel ini sama seperti novel-novel lain di Pakistan yang menceritakan tentang kisah penghijrahan secara besar-besaran dan faktor-faktornya selepas penubuhan Pakistan pada tahun 1947. Penghasilan novel bergenre sejarah ini adalah satu usaha dari Nasim Hijazi dan seangkatan dengan beliau untuk mengingatkan orang islam tentang apa yang telah dilakukan oleh orang Hindu dan Sikh kepada rakyat Pakistan. Oleh yang demikian, novel ini telah diharamkan oleh kerjaan India daripada diterbitkan malah cuba menghapuskan apa-apa yang berkaitan dengan islam termasuklah merobohkan Masjid Babri. Justeru, novel “Tanan dan Darah” merupakan pengalaman penulis sendiri yang mana beliau telah melontarkan buah fikiran, pendapat dan pendirian beliau terhadap isu-isu yang berbeza dari sudut persepektif islam yang sebenar. Novel ini banyak mengetengahkan nilai-nilai islam yang sudah hampir dilupakan dalam bidang kesusateraan hari ini dan novel islam global ini layak dikaji dan dianalisa.Kata kunci: Sastera Islam – Sastera Urdu – Karya “Khak Oor Khoon” – Isi kandungan – Keindahan Sastera Islam.  


2018 ◽  
pp. 80-89
Author(s):  
Willi H. Hager

The Hydraulic Laboratory of Liège University, Belgium, is historically considered from its foundation in 1937 to the mid-1960s. The technical facilities of the various Buildings are highlighted, along with canals and instrumentation available. It is noted that in its initial era, comparatively few basic research has been conducted, mainly due to the professional background of the professors leading the establishment. This state was improved in the past 50 years, however, particularly since the Laboratory was dislocated to its current position in the novel University Campus. Biographies of the leading persons associated with the Liège Hydraulic Laboratory are also presented, so that a comprehensive picture is given of one of the currently leading hydraulic Laboratories of Europe.


TAPPI Journal ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 9-17
Author(s):  
ALESSANDRA GERLI ◽  
LEENDERT C. EIGENBROOD

A novel method was developed for the determination of linting propensity of paper based on printing with an IGT printability tester and image analysis of the printed strips. On average, the total fraction of the surface removed as lint during printing is 0.01%-0.1%. This value is lower than those reported in most laboratory printing tests, and more representative of commercial offset printing applications. Newsprint paper produced on a roll/blade former machine was evaluated for linting propensity using the novel method and also printed on a commercial coldset offset press. Laboratory and commercial printing results matched well, showing that linting was higher for the bottom side of paper than for the top side, and that linting could be reduced on both sides by application of a dry-strength additive. In a second case study, varying wet-end conditions were used on a hybrid former machine to produce four paper reels, with the goal of matching the low linting propensity of the paper produced on a machine with gap former configuration. We found that the retention program, by improving fiber fines retention, substantially reduced the linting propensity of the paper produced on the hybrid former machine. The papers were also printed on a commercial coldset offset press. An excellent correlation was found between the total lint area removed from the bottom side of the paper samples during laboratory printing and lint collected on halftone areas of the first upper printing unit after 45000 copies. Finally, the method was applied to determine the linting propensity of highly filled supercalendered paper produced on a hybrid former machine. In this case, the linting propensity of the bottom side of paper correlated with its ash content.


2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-297
Author(s):  
Tom Walker

Allusions to other texts abound in John McGahern's fiction. His works repeatedly, though diffidently, refer to literary tradition. Yet the nature of such allusiveness is still unclear. This article focuses on how allusion in The Pornographer (1979) is depicted as an intellectual and social practice, embodying particular attitudes towards the function of texts and the knowledge they represent. Moreover, the critique of the practice of allusion that the novel undertakes is shown to have broader significance in terms of McGahern's whole oeuvre and its evolving attempts to salvage something of present value from the literature of the past.


2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
Kenneth Brophy
Keyword(s):  

The Scottish Theoretical Archaeology Group (STAG) conference organisers expressed some doubts about how far theory has changed, and impacted, archaeological establishment and academia in Scotland. In this paper, I will argue that Scotland is certainly not isolated in a theoretical sense, although in the past, Scottish archaeology could be accused of being theoretically conservative, or at least dependent on ideas and models developed elsewhere. A case-study looking at Neolithic studies will be used to illustrate that despite some recent critical historiographies of the study of the period in Scotland, archaeologists in Scotland and those working with Scottish material have been theoretically innovative and in step with wider paradigm changes. The study of the Neolithic in Scotland, it could be argued, has been shaped by theory more than the study of any other period; we are not isolated, but rather part of wider networks of discourse.


2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Nur Huzeima Mohd Hussain ◽  
Hugh Byrd ◽  
Nur Azfahani Ahmad

Globalisation combined with resources of oil and gas has led to an industrial society in Malaysia.  For the past 30 years, rapid urban growth has shifted from 73% rural to 73% urban population. However, the peak oil crisis and economic issues are threatening the growth of urbanisation and influencing the trends of population mobility. This paper documents the beginnings of a reverse migration (urban-to-rural) in Malaysia.  The method adopted case study that involves questionnaires with the urban migrants to establish the desires, definite intentions and reasons for future migration. Based on this data, it predicts a trend and rate of reverse migration in Malaysia. 


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-218
Author(s):  
Francis Chuma Osefoh

Some of the renowned world tourism countries have special peculiarities in character in terms of their nature reserves and built environments; that made them stand out for their attractions and visits. These qualities range from conservation and preservation of nature reserves, built environments- epoch architectural supports over the years; historical heritage; political; religious; socio-economic; cultural; and  high technology that enhance culture. The virtues of multi- ethnic groups and multi- cultural nature gave Nigeria a rich cultural heritage, and she is blessed with natural wonders, unique wildlife, and a very favorable climate. More often than not less attention and importance are placed over the nature reserves and built environments to the detriment of tourism in lieu of other sectors. Summarily the country lacks the culture of conservation and preservation of her abundant resources to promote cultural tourism. Case study strategy was applied in the research tours with reports of personal experiences, documentaries and analyses of sites visited in Europe and Nigeria were highlighted with references to their attributes in terms of structures and features that made up the sites as relate to culture and attraction.The task in keeping rural, city landscapes and nature reserves alive stands out as the secret of communication link from the past to present and the future; which tourism developed nations reap as benefits for tourist attraction.


Author(s):  
Sagar T. Malsane ◽  
Smita S. Aher ◽  
R. B. Saudagar

Oral route is presently the gold standard in the pharmaceutical industry where it is regarded as the safest, most economical and most convenient method of drug delivery resulting in highest patient compliance. Over the past three decades, orally disintegrating tablets (FDTs) have gained considerable attention due to patient compliance. Usually, elderly people experience difficulty in swallowing the conventional dosage forms like tablets, capsules, solutions and suspensions because of tremors of extremities and dysphagia. In some cases such as motion sickness, sudden episodes of allergic attack or coughing, and an unavailability of water, swallowing conventional tablets may be difficult. One such problem can be solved in the novel drug delivery system by formulating “Fast dissolving tablets” (FDTs) which disintegrates or dissolves rapidly without water within few seconds in the mouth due to the action of superdisintegrant or maximizing pore structure in the formulation. The review describes the various formulation aspects, superdisintegrants employed and technologies developed for FDTs, along with various excipients, evaluation tests, marketed formulation and drugs used in this research area.


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 229
Author(s):  
Muhammad Eko Atmojo ◽  
Helen Dian Fridayani

Kulon Progo Regency is one of the districts that has many innovations, one of which is community empowerment in collaboration with a modern shop abbreviated as the shop name owned by the people (tomira). This research was motivated by the achievements of the Kulon Progo district government in carrying out development and innovation in the development of the Kulon Progo region by fully involving the Kulon Progo district community through community empowerment. This initiative was taken by the government of Kulon Progo Regency to improve community empowerment and protect the people of Kulon Progo Regency from various economic threats. Considering that in the past few years many modern shops have mushroomed in each district/city, so this is what makes Kulon Progo Regency move quickly to empower the community by collaborating between MSMEs or cooperative with modern shops. This study uses a qualitative method which case study approach. With the empowerment that has been done, the original products of Kulon Progo Regency or local products can be traded in modern stores so that local products in Kulon Progo Regency can compete with national products in these modern stores. The existence of such cooperation will indirectly improve the image of Kulon Progo Regency and lift the original products of Kulon Progo Regency. The lifting of the original products of Kulon Progo Regency will have a positive impact on the community, where indirectly the economy of the community will increase so that there will be prosperity for the community. Kabupaten Kulon Progo adalah salah satu kabupaten yang memiliki banyak inovasi, salah satunya adalah pemberdayaan masyarakat bekerja sama dengan toko modern disingkat nama toko yang dimiliki oleh masyarakat (tomira). Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh pencapaian pemerintah kabupaten Kulon Progo dalam melakukan pengembangan dan inovasi dalam pengembangan wilayah Kulon Progo dengan melibatkan sepenuhnya masyarakat kabupaten Kulon Progo melalui pemberdayaan masyarakat. Inisiatif ini diambil oleh pemerintah Kabupaten Kulon Progo untuk meningkatkan pemberdayaan masyarakat dan melindungi masyarakat Kabupaten Kulon Progo dari berbagai ancaman ekonomi. Menimbang bahwa dalam beberapa tahun terakhir banyak toko-toko modern telah menjamur di setiap kabupaten/kota, jadi inilah yang membuat Kabupaten Kulon Progo bergerak cepat untuk memberdayakan masyarakat dengan berkolaborasi antara UMKM atau bekerjasama dengan toko-toko modern. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan studi kasus, dengan metode yang digunakan adalah dokumentasi. Dengan pemberdayaan yang telah dilakukan, produk asli Kabupaten Kulon Progo atau produk lokal dapat diperdagangkan di toko modern sehingga produk lokal di Kabupaten Kulon Progo dapat bersaing dengan produk nasional di toko modern ini. Adanya kerjasama tersebut secara tidak langsung akan meningkatkan citra Kabupaten Kulon Progo dan mengangkat produk asli Kabupaten Kulon Progo. Pencabutan produk asli Kabupaten Kulon Progo akan berdampak positif bagi masyarakat, di mana secara tidak langsung perekonomian masyarakat akan meningkat sehingga akan ada kesejahteraan bagi masyarakat.


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