Certain paradigms refuse to die. The Minimoog, the TR-808, Helvetica, the Dom-ino frame — each has survived repeated attempts at obsolescence, not through nostalgia but through structural authority. Antiques & Antics examines this phenomenon across music technology, film, architecture, and graphic design, asking why some forms achieve paradigmatic permanence while their replacements remain trapped in continuous flux.

Drawing on Baudrillard, Kubler, and Thompson, the book maps a world where paradigm formation itself appears to have ceased around 1987 — leaving us to navigate a post-paradigm condition in which the past exerts more gravity than the future.

Project Team: Neil M. Denari