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dc.contributor.authorAdriaansen, Robbert-Jan <Center for Historical Culture, Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands>
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-16T12:25:12Z
dc.date.available2023-03-16T12:25:12Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.citationRobbert-Jan Adriaansen, Dark Academia: Curating Affective History in a COVID-Era Internet Aesthetic, «International Public History», vol. 5, 2022, n. 2, pp. 105-114it_IT
dc.identifier.issn2567-1111it_IT
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1515/iph-2022-2047it_IT
dc.identifier.urihttp://elea.unisa.it:8080/xmlui/handle/10556/6471
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.14273/unisa-4543
dc.description.abstractDark academia is an ‘internet aesthetic,’ an aesthetic style used in posts on platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, and Tumblr that resonates the atmosphere of life in boarding schools, prep schools, and (Ivy League) colleges from the last decades of the nineteenth century up until the 1940s. It expresses a fascination with (neo-)gothic architecture; with tweed, lace, wool, and leather; with literature and art, and Romantic longing. Having been a main trend on social media platforms throughout the coronavirus pandemic, dark academia captures and facilitates cultural engagement in times of social isolation and closed college campuses. This article studies the dark academia aesthetic as a mnemonic curatorial practice with tendencies to counter hegemonic norms and narratives. Focusing on the affective dimensions of dark academia, this article argues that the aim of this internet aesthetic is to annul historical distance by capturing a mood and atmosphere associated with early twentieth-century campuses through the means of curated social media representations. This de-historicization allows for the renegotiation of values, like inscribing queerness – associated with secret queer romantics at gender-divided schools – into its representational language, without having to reassert historical gender binaries.it_IT
dc.format.extentP. 105-114it_IT
dc.language.isoenit_IT
dc.publisherR.J. Adriaansen, Dark Academia: Curating Affective History in a COVID-Era Internet Aesthetic, «International Public History», vol. 5, 2022, n. 2, pp. 105-114it_IT
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0it_IT
dc.sourceUniSa. Sistema Bibliotecario di Ateneoit_IT
dc.subjectDark academiait_IT
dc.subjectAffectit_IT
dc.subjectCurationit_IT
dc.subjectMemoryit_IT
dc.titleDark Academia: Curating Affective History in a COVID-Era Internet Aestheticit_IT
dc.typeJournal Articleit_IT
dc.relation.ispartofjournalInternational Public Historyit_IT
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1515/iph-2022-2047it_IT
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