What does solastalgia mean?
Solastalgia means A form of homesickness experienced when one has not moved, but one's environment has changed..
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/ˌsɒləsˈtæld͡ʒə/ · noun
A form of homesickness experienced when one has not moved, but one's environment has changed..
There are many people writing and talking about extinction now, and about solastalgia, the psychic or existential distress caused by environmental change. Artists, musicians, dancers, and screenwriters are wringing profound solastalgia from the recesses of our collective subconscious and spinning its trajectory out into the light where we can get a better sense of it.
Part of what I feel in this city is solastalgia, not so much for buildings as for the routines I established around those buildings: the walk to visit friends in the CBD, the stroll to the cinema.
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Solastalgia means A form of homesickness experienced when one has not moved, but one's environment has changed..
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There are many people writing and talking about extinction now, and about solastalgia, the psychic or existential distress caused by environmental change. Artists, musicians, dancers, and screenwriters are wringing profound solastalgia from the recesses of our collective subconscious and spinning its trajectory out into the light where we can get a better sense of it.
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