/lit/ - Literature

>>18357763
idk, just taking it literally. retrofuturism is stylistically dated but technologically progressed(or alternatively progressed, let's not split hairs), the opposite would have to be stylistically progressed but technologically dated. so basically the most cutting edge style we have right now are those depressing concrete blocks, and medieval ages are a go-to icon of regressed technology.

an alternative opposite of retrofuturism would be like.. retrohistorical. so where retrofuturism is the future imagined by an earlier time, perhaps retrohistorical could be set in the past imagined by an earlier era. an example would be how the medieval generation imagined historical antiquity. pic related is how the medieval artists portrayed ancient greece, which is obviously not quite right, in that sense, retrohistorical