The politics of regressive nostalgia in the 21st century it is the meeting with Ferdinando Fasce scheduled Tuesday 7 May 2024, at 6 pm, in the Minor Council Hall of Ducal Palace. Free entry, while available places last. Collateral meeting at the exhibition Nostalgia. Modernity of a feeling from the Renaissance to the contemporaryedited by Matteo Fochessati in collaboration with Anna Vyazemtseva.
The use of the past is at the center of three key phenomena of the 21st century such as BrexitThe Presidency Trump and the regime of Putin is the subject of this conference. Brexit, Trump and Putin are evidently three very different stories. This is demonstrated by the very different historical trajectories of the three countries and the clear difference between the two English-speaking liberal democratic regimes and the autocratic one of the Russian despot. This is confirmed by the dramatic turn that Putinism definitively took with the invasion of Ukraine. Yet, the three phenomena are united by a “regressive nostalgia”, an instrumental and manipulative rereading of a self-celebratory and consolatory past, largely imaginary and closed in on itself, prisoner of a nationalistic regret without adjectives.
Ferdinando Fasce, former full professor of Contemporary History at the University of Genoa. Organization of American Historians Foreign-Language Book Prize for the best book on United States history in a foreign language. Corresponding editor of the “Journal of American History”. Author of numerous essays and volumes including An American Family. The Great War and Corporate Culture in America (Ohio State University Press, 2002); US presidents. Two centuries of history (Carocci, 2008); The souls of commerce. Advertising and consumption in the American century(Carocci, 2012); Music over time. A history of Beatles (Einaudi, 2018) e The Beatles in Italyin P. Carusi and M. Merluzzi (eds.), Tricolor notes. The history of contemporary Italy in popular music(Pacini, 2021).
