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The Ministry of Nostalgia
Owen Hatherley
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Description for The Ministry of Nostalgia
Hardcover. Why should we have to "Keep Calm and Carry On"? Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 140. Weight in Grams: 567.
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 mend" aesthetic to the growing nostalgia for a utopian past that never existed, a cultural distraction scam prevents people grasping the truth of their condition.
The Ministry of Nostalgia explodes the creation of a false history: a rewriting of the austerity of the 1940s and 1950s, which saw the development of a welfare state while the nation crawled out of the devastations of war. This period has been recast to explain ... Read more
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 mend" aesthetic to the growing nostalgia for a utopian past that never existed, a cultural distraction scam prevents people grasping the truth of their condition.
The Ministry of Nostalgia explodes the creation of a false history: a rewriting of the austerity of the 1940s and 1950s, which saw the development of a welfare state while the nation crawled out of the devastations of war. This period has been recast to explain ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784780753
SKU
V9781784780753
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About Owen Hatherley
Owen Hatherley was born in 1981. He writes regularly on architecture and cultural politics for Architects Journal, Architectural Review, Icon, Guardian, London Review of Books and New Humanist and is the author of several books.
Reviews for The Ministry of Nostalgia
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more