Back in 1997, New Labour came to power amid much talk of regenerating the inner cities left to rot under successive Conservative governments. Over the next decade, British cities became the laboratories of the new enterprise economy: glowing monuments to finance, property speculation, and the service industry--until the crash. In A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Owen Hatherley sets out to explore the wreckage--the buildings that epitomized an age of greed and aspiration. From Greenwich to Glasgow, Milton Keynes to Manchester, Hatherley maps the derelict Britain of the...
Back in 1997, New Labour came to power amid much talk of regenerating the inner cities left to rot under successive Conservative governments. Over the...
Argues for a Modernism of everyday life, immersed in questions of socialism, sexual politics and technology. This work features chapters ranging from a study of industrial and brutalist aesthetics in Britain, the Sexpol of Wilhelm Reich in film and design, and the alienation effects of Brecht and Hanns Eisler on record and on screen.
Argues for a Modernism of everyday life, immersed in questions of socialism, sexual politics and technology. This work features chapters ranging from ...
If we remember them at all, the pop group Pulp are remembered for jolly class warfare ditty 'Common People'. This book argues that they should be taken seriously. The text charts the very strange things that occur in their records, taking us deep into a strange exotic land.
If we remember them at all, the pop group Pulp are remembered for jolly class warfare ditty 'Common People'. This book argues that they should be take...
Reveals the history of twentieth-century communist Europe told through its buildings. This is a book about power, and what power does in cities. It is a journey of discovery, plunging us into the maelstrom of socialist architecture.
Reveals the history of twentieth-century communist Europe told through its buildings. This is a book about power, and what power does in cities. It is...
