If the nostalgia cultures of the 1970s and 1980s were characterized by a fascination with the popular culture of the 1950s and 1960s, from adventure stories to go-go girls, and staying away from a more politicized past, as Fred Jameson argued in his seminal analysis of the postmodern, present-day nostalgia, culture has no problem mining more militant events, emblems, images and styles, converting them into fashionable signs like Che and Guy Fawkes.33 But the end result is the same: historical amnesia and the commodification of history.
