Substituted Experience: Towards the Technological Construction of Nostalgia

Authors

  • Elkín Rubiano-Pinilla Author Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano

Keywords:

photography, experience, history of technology, tale (Source, UNESCO Thesaurus)

Abstract

This essay reflects on the relationship between technology and experience based on Walter Benjamin (and several theoretical updates), who addresses the matter in an ambivalent way: simultaneous possibilities and risks. From there, a number of questions are raised concerning the aura, authenticity, memory and technological construction of nostalgia through the simulation of imperfections in the image, blur and grain of film, among other possibilities. The final assessment of such a practice is ambivalent: both the reflective possibilities in the construction of an autobiographic tale as well as the impossibility of recounting history (political, social, and cultural) by substituting it with simulations of the past (the nostalgic image that has the power to romanticize the infamy of the present).

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Author Biography

Elkín Rubiano-Pinilla, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano

Elkin Rubiano es sociólogo de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, magister en comunicación de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana y especialista en diseño urbano de la Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano.

 

Sus áreas de trabajo se concentran en la teoría estética, la crítica cultural y las sociologías urbana y del arte. Actualmente es profesor asociado de tiempo completo de la maestría en Estética e Historia del arte de la Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano y hace parte del grupo de investigación “Reflexión y creación artísticas contemporáneas” (categoría B COLCIENCIAS) del Departamento de Humanidades.

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Published

2013-05-17

How to Cite

Rubiano-Pinilla, E. (2013). Substituted Experience: Towards the Technological Construction of Nostalgia. Palabra Clave, 16(2), 541–558. Retrieved from https://palabraclave.unisabana.edu.co/index.php/palabraclave/article/view/3049

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 2 (2013)

Section

Articles

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