the Most Spectacular Dystopia of the 1970s

The term most often applied to Scarfolk is hauntology. Hauntology recycles aesthetic forms and reflects the clash between the dreams we had of the future in the 1960s through the 1980s versus where we actually are now. But it also looks back, as did 1970s culture, to earlier periods, like pre-Christian paganism and Victoriana, for example.

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