Present Pasts
Since the 1970s in Europe and the United States we have the historicizing restoration of old urban centers, whole museum villages and landscapes, various heritage and patrimony enterprises, the wave of new museum architecture that shows no signs of receding, the boom in retro fashions and repro [sic] furniture, the mass-marketing of nostalgia, the obsessive self-musealization per video recorder, memoir writing, and confesional literature [a lo cual se podr