Writing for TANK magazine in 2019, Josh Citarella mused on how WoW Classic tied into Mark Fischer’s idea of“the slow cancellation of the future” (aka“where are my hoverboards”) — its release acting as further evidence of the collapsing gap of space between cultural time (cultural cycles) and nostalgia. I tend to agree with his position here, and have adopted a refrain I like to throw around now —“culture has stopped”. Cirtrella points to the collapsing gap between items that...
