Velvet Retro

Velvet RetroScholars of state socialism have frequently invoked nostalgia to identify an uncritical longing for the utopian ambitions and lived experience of the former Eastern Bloc. However, this concept seems insufficient to describe memory cultures in the Czech Republic and other contexts in which a retro fascination with the past has proven compatible with a steadfast critique of the state socialist era. This innovative study locates a distinctively retro

Hidden connections are unveiled between the family that employs the young man and the mysterious woman

Seeking more control over their lives

which lead to critiques of environmental destruction

It is a book about dying

Contributors include Allen Caldwell

inviting the reader to reflect on the conditions of subjectivity that just might open us to something like a divine love of the other

the man aims a rifle in her friend’s direction

the book contributes to the debate on institutional dynamism

Its aim is to trace a critical history of the last fifty years

Founded by jazz enthusiast Bob Weinstock

Korea's two most eminent Neo-Confucian thinkers

and interview-based analyses of Legato members' "coming out" experiences and uses of digital media