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The Ministry of Nostalgia
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Owen Hatherley
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-01-19 - Publisher: Verso Books

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In this brilliant polemical rampage, Owen Hatherley shows how our past is being resold in order to defend the indefensible. From the marketing of a "make do and
The Ministry of Nostalgia
Language: en
Pages: 210
Authors: Owen Hatherley
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-02-09 - Publisher: Verso Books

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Why should we have to “Keep Calm and Carry On”? In this brilliant polemical rampage, Owen Hatherley shows how our past is being resold in order to defend th
The Ministry of Fear
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Graham Greene
Categories: Fairs
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher:

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For Arthur Rowe the charity fair was a trip back to childhood, to innocence, a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz, to forget twenty years of his p
Militant Modernism
Language: en
Pages: 156
Authors: Owen Hatherley
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-04-24 - Publisher: John Hunt Publishing

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Militant Modernism is a defence against Modernism's many detractors. It looks at design, film and architecture - especially architecture — and pursues the not
Consumed Nostalgia
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: Gary Cross
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-08 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. For many of us, modern memory is shaped less by a longing for the social customs and practices of the past or for family hei