nostalgiaclock
/nɒˌstælʒəˈklɒk/nounVerified NewThe cultural mechanism that reinstates each past era as fashionable on a roughly fixed schedule.
Revivals arrive with metronomic regularity, and observers can read the clock to know which decade is due. The clock appears to run faster than it used to.
Etym. — nostalgia + clock — the revival cycle as a timepiece kept by the culture industries.
Rel. — synthstalgia · decadewarp
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