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stories for the 5th anniversary of iamamiwhoami’s BLUE

Christopher May
Nov 1 · 13 min read

Resisting nostalgia is a political imperative. We should resist political attempts to restore the Twentieth Century and its ideologies. We should resist cultural attempts to reboot blockbusters, which can shape our identities into a kind of consumerist ethnicity. And in terms of our personal development, we should resist the urge to try and re-live our adolescence, our immaturity.

But this puts me in something of a quandary, because it’s the end of the decade. In one month, the audiovisual

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