{"id":12073,"date":"2026-03-24T10:15:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T09:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/?post_type=events&p=12073"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:27:17","slug":"technostalgia","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/events\/technostalgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Technostalgia. Afterlives of 80s-90s\u2019 Digital Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This international conference is organised by the CD-Hist team<\/a> (in parallel to the \u201cCD-ROM. One Click, One Story\u201d exhibition). It seeks to explore how digital and computing pasts are remembered, revived, and reimagined. Technostalgia stands at the intersection of personal memory and collective practices, intertwining affects, communities, cultures, heritage, markets and ideologies. Whether through the emulation of obsolete systems, the storytelling of early computing experiences, the maintenance of vintage hardware, the emulation of videogames and dead formats, the aesthetic strategies of retro interfaces and design, a market of \u201cgeek\u201d artifacts, activities of communities related to retro-computing or the demo scene, technostalgia opens a fertile ground for analysing both \u201crestorative\u201d and \u201creflective\u201d relations to past IT technologies (Van der Heijden, 2015<\/a>). It invites us to discuss the role of \u201ctechno-melancholia\u201d (Fickers, 2009<\/a>), memories, different expressions of contemporary nostalgia (Fantin, Fevry and Niemeyer, 2021)<\/a> and digital nostalgia (Niemeyer in Becker and Trigg, 2024<\/a>), maintenance and heritagisation, remembrance and restoration (Van Dijck and Bijsterveld, 2009<\/a>), as well as some \u201cdesired return to an ideal past\u201d (Pinch and Reinecke, 2009<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n

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