Work

Articles

Digital “Retrobait” Trades on Your Present Unhappiness to Collect Your Data – Jacobin (November 12, 2023)

Masters of the Userverse – Real Life (April 28, 2022)

Nostalgia in the Wake of Y2K – Highsnobiety (spring 2022 issue)

Yesterday Once More – Real Life (November 22, 2021)

Falling Into The Sky: Disappearance, Aviation, and The Twilight Zone – We Are The Mutants (June 25, 2020)

Make America Mayberry Again – The Los Angeles Review of Books (January 26, 2020)

Why Raytheon Sponsors Math Contests for Kids – The Nation (January 15, 2020)

Classroom Management: Simon Sinek, ClassDojo, and the Nostalgia Industry – The Los Angeles Review of Books (January 28, 2019)

Is Jordan Peterson More Postmodern Than He Thinks? – Merion West (October 3, 2018)

Digital Detox: Big Tech’s Phony Crisis of Conscience – The Los Angeles Review of Books (August 9, 2018)

Review: A Serf’s Journal by Terry Tapp – The Hong Kong Review of Books (July 2, 2018)

Smoke and Mirrors: Disney, Big Tobacco, and the Selling of American Unreality – We Are The Mutants (September 11, 2017)

Review: The Utopia of Rules by David Graeber – The Hong Kong Review of Books (May 8, 2017)

Stranger Things and the Nostalgia Industry – The Hong Kong Review of Books (November 23, 2016)

Video

Manners Maketh Man: a debate with Billy Bragg and Sophie Scott-Brown – IAI TV (August 15, 2023)

Martin Scorsese was Wrong About Marvel Movies… They’re Infinite Games – Gutterspace (October 1, 2021)

Interviews

Are you being played by Netflix? Why tech giants do not want us to be nostalgic – The Irish Times (March 4, 2024)

How Foreverism Degrades Our Culture, w/ Grafton Tanner – Tech Won’t Save Us (February 22, 2024)

Foreverism w/ Grafton Tanner – Digital Void (January 8, 2024)

Nostalgia’s Empire: A Conversation with Grafton Tanner and Johny Pitts – Public Books (June 8, 2023)

Nostalgia, with Grafton Tanner – The Data Fix podcast (April 30, 2023)

Can nostalgia be a force for good? – Institute of Art and Ideas [YouTube] (February 2, 2023)

Zer0 Books Archive: Babbling Corpse with Grafton Tanner – Zero Books [YouTube] (January 20, 2022)

Once on children’s wish lists, hazardous toys are on display in a museum – NPR (December 20, 2021)

Can Nostalgia Inspire a Better Future? w/ Grafton Tanner – Tech Won’t Save Us (October 28, 2021)

Throughline: “The Nostalgia Bone” – NPR (October 14, 2021)

Ep. 44: Grafton Tanner “The Hours Have Lost Their Clock” – Digital Void (October 11, 2021)

The Politics of Nostalgia with Grafton Tanner – Hermitix Podcast (August 26, 2021)

Interview: Revisiting Nostalgia (w/ Grafton Tanner) – Here’s The Thing, Tho (July 23, 2021)

The Politics of Nostalgia ft. Grafton Tanner – Epoch Philosophy Podcast (July 6, 2021)

URL Sonata #10: Interview with Grafton Tanner – SPAM Zine (May 16, 2021)

Is Dispo, David Dobrik’s Nostalgic New App, The Future Of Tech? – Forbes (February 17, 2021)

Nostalgic Feedback Loops w/ Grafton Tanner – FUTURES Podcast (February 8, 2021)

How Nostalgia Serves Corporate Power w/ Grafton Tanner – Tech Won’t Save Us (January 28, 2021)

The Algorithm is NOT Neutral – The Nomiki Show (January 9, 2021)

Nostalgia in Place of a Working Society feat. Grafton Tanner – Trashfuture (January 5, 2021)

Big Tech Dreams and Social Control – Zero Books [YouTube] (December 16, 2020)

Big Tech, Nostalgia, and Control: Grafton Tanner’s The Circle of the Snake – We Are The Mutants (December 15, 2020)

An Interview with Grafton Tanner on ‘The Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech’ – Honeysweat (December 9, 2020)

Digital Void Podcast #18 | Grafton Tanner “The Circle of the Snake” – Digital Void (December 7, 2020)

Nostalgia and Horror: An Interview with Grafton Tanner – What Sleeps Beneath (November 13, 2020)

“To see something last, it’s like death escaped”: An Interview with Grafton Tanner – 12th Street (October 14, 2019)

BONUS EPISODE 27: Vaporwave Theory with Grafton Tanner – Popular Front (May 5, 2019)

The Teens Who Listen to “Mallwave” Are Nostalgic For An Experience They’ve Never Had – MEL (January 30, 2019)

Episode #561 – Just Off The Radar (October 8, 2018)

Entrevista: Grafton Tanner – Assombrados Por Assombrações Anteriores – Floga-se (May 4, 2018)

Episode 22: Culture – Exiting The Haunted Mall, With Grafton Tanner – Discourse Collective Podcast (April 19, 2017)

Taste the Vapor – Zero Squared Podcast #83, Zero Books (September 8, 2016)

Audio

Delusioneering Episode 3: “Indistractable” – Repeater Radio

Delusioneering Episode 2: “Dumb Guns” – Repeater Radio

Delusioneering Episode 1: “Capitalism is Always too Late” – Repeater Radio

Selected Reviews of Published Work

‘Yesterday’ and ‘Foreverism’ Review: Forward Into the Past – The Wall Street Journal (January 26, 2024)

The hidden dangers in allowing pop stars to live forever – The Australian (January 14, 2024)

Book Review: “Commodifying Our Collective Ache” – The Morning Star (January 15, 2022)

Imagining a More Habitable Present: On Grafton Tanner’s “The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia” – Los Angeles Review of Books (December 29, 2021)

Don’t Give in to the Culture’s Industry’s Appeals to Nostalgia – Jacobin (October 22, 2021)

Book Review: The Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech by Grafton Tanner – Communication, Capitalism & Critique (July 14, 2021)

Book Review: The Circle of the Snake – What Sleeps Beneath (December 13, 2020)

Review: Babbling Corpse – Under the Radar (October 10, 2016)

More

Grafton Tanner and Roisin Kiberd – Greenlight Bookstore (November 10, 2021)

Grafton Tanner Presents The Hours Have Lost Their Clock, with Jenny Odell – Community Bookstore (October 13, 2021)

Reading at A Cappella Books – Zero Books (February 3, 2017)