Once Upon a Time on the Internet: Digital Nostalgia for the Music Album

Jordan offers an insight into the nostalgic appearances of music albums and their recalcitrance in digital landscapes. Discussing the impact such albums seek to have in a more and more digitized consumer market, Jordan argues for the enjoyment of objects and their appeal to a certain mode retro. By this, Jordan conceptualizes a digital nostalgia in which the early internet is recirculated and perpetuated; the internet seduces users with an aesthetization of the obsolescence and transience of objects. Particularly in music formats, such a process is visible and particularly tempting in mapping out temporal and spatial unspecificities of online and offline spheres.