The Ministry of Nostalgia by Owen Hatherley
Why should we have to "Keep Calm and Carry On"?
A brave, incisive, elegant and erudite writer, whose books dissect the contemporary built environment to reveal the political fantasies and social realities it embodies-- Will Self
A lively and gleefully argumentative book. Even when you disagree with Hatherley, he remains interesting. And there is a good chance, depressingly, that he is right about everything. -- Jon Day * Guardian *
Combines analysis of the austerity nostalgia phenomenon with a parkour of film, art, graphic design, and especially architecture and urbanism, comparing romantic notions of wartime cohesion to the historical record. * Maclean’s *
The Ministry of Nostalgia is a brisk and bracing polemic about Britain's relationship with its recent history . Any successful political project must address itself to what's needed right now. Keeping calm and carrying on is about the worst possible response. -- Richard Godwin * Evening Standard *
Reflective and intelligent * Spectator *
A lively and gleefully argumentative book. Even when you disagree with Hatherley, he remains interesting. And there is a good chance, depressingly, that he is right about everything. -- Jon Day * Guardian *
Combines analysis of the austerity nostalgia phenomenon with a parkour of film, art, graphic design, and especially architecture and urbanism, comparing romantic notions of wartime cohesion to the historical record. * Maclean’s *
The Ministry of Nostalgia is a brisk and bracing polemic about Britain's relationship with its recent history . Any successful political project must address itself to what's needed right now. Keeping calm and carrying on is about the worst possible response. -- Richard Godwin * Evening Standard *
Reflective and intelligent * Spectator *
Owen Hatherley was born in Southampton, England in 1981. He received a PhD in 2011 from Birkbeck College, London, for a thesis on Constructivism and Americanism. He writes regularly on architecture and cultural politics for Architects Journal, Architectural Review, Icon, the Guardian the London Review of Books and New Humanist, and is the author of several books: Militant Modernism (Zero, 2009), A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (Verso, 2010), Uncommon An Essay on Pulp (Zero, 2011), A New Kind of Bleak Journeys through Urban Britain (Verso 2012), Across the Plaza (Strelka, 2012) and Landscapes of Communism (Penguin 2015). He also edited and introduced an updated edition of Ian Nairn's Nairn's Towns (Notting Hill Editions, 2013). He lives in Woolwich and Warsaw.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784780760 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784780766 |
| Title | The Ministry of Nostalgia |
| Author | Owen Hatherley |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2017-01-03 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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