| The nostalgic gaze sacralizes concepts, objects, forms, and states from the past and reproduces them in a present that simulates and commodifies their pastness. |
| They give to the memory image a feeling of pastness and trueness which the image of imagination lacks. |
| It is defined in terms of ancientness, pastness and a pristine existence that is frozen in the archives of immemoriality. |
| The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence. |
| It calls up the seeming paradox of writing a history, an account of pastness, of things that are of the relative present. |
| This change requires us to place futurity, rather than pastness, at the heart of our thinking about culture. |
