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Housmans BookshopThree Revolutions: Simon Hall in conversation with Owen HatherleySimon Hall and Owen Hatherley will be joining us to discuss Simon’s fascinating new book, THREE REVOLUTIONS: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys That Changed The World.From the streets of Petrograd during the heady autumn of 1917, to Mao’s stunning victory in October 1949, and Fidel’s triumphant arrival in Havana, in January 1959, the history of the twentieth century was transformed in dramatic and profound ways by the Russian, Chinese, and Cuban revolutions.In Three Revolutions, the stories of these epoch-defining events are told together for the first time. At the heart of each revolution was an epic journe...
2025-08-1344 min
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2025-07-1603 min
The Chatterbox[UNLOCKED] Owen Hatherley on the Manic Street Preachers Podcast: Politics Theory Other (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: [UNLOCKED] Owen Hatherley on the Manic Street PreachersPub date: 2025-06-26Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOwen Hatherley returns to discuss his New Left Review article on the Welsh guitar band, the Manic Street Preachers. We talked about the particular appeal the group seemed to hold for working class kids from non-metropolitan backgrounds in the 1990s, and about the forbearance and occasional embarrassment that is the lot of fans who've followed their work in the...
2025-07-091h 13
Politics Theory Other[UNLOCKED] Owen Hatherley on the Manic Street PreachersOwen Hatherley returns to discuss his New Left Review article on the Welsh guitar band, the Manic Street Preachers. We talked about the particular appeal the group seemed to hold for working class kids from non-metropolitan backgrounds in the 1990s, and about the forbearance and occasional embarrassment that is the lot of fans who've followed their work in the subsequent decades. We also talked about why such an avowedly left wing and politicised group have shown such little regard for contemporary left movements such as the Corbyn moment in the UK.
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Music:
Owen's acceptable Manics playlist: https://open...
2025-06-261h 13
Open CityInterCities: Jerusalem with Yair WallachInterCities is a six-part podcast series from Open City. In it, we travel to a number of cities and boroughs around the world that have transformed over time to discover what we can learn from these places’ achievements, struggles, successes and mistakes.In this episode, our host Owen Hatherley is joined by the Israeli-born, UK-based academic and writer Dr Yair Wallach who specialises in the urban history of the Middle East. Today the focus is his 2020 book “A City in Fragments: Urban Text in Modern Jerusalem” which explores the city's history through ephemera and urban text and we...
2025-06-2634 min
Open CityInterCities: Kharkiv with Ievgeniia GubkinaInterCities is a six-part podcast series from Open City. In it, we travel to a number of cities and boroughs around the world that have transformed over time to discover what we can learn from these places’ achievements, struggles, successes and mistakes.In this episode, our host Owen Hatherley is joined by the Ukranian architect and urban historian Ievgeniia Gubkina. Gubkina was born in the northeastern Ukranian city of Kharkiv and lived there until the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, after which she fled with her teenage daughter and now lives in London in exile. To...
2025-05-2929 min
Open CityInterCities: Belgrade with Dubravka SekulićInterCities is a brand new podcast from the team at Open City. In this six-part series, we travel to a number of cities and boroughs around the world that have transformed over time to discover what we can learn from these places’ achievements, struggles, successes and mistakes.In this episode, our host Owen Hatherley is joined by the author and academic Dubravka Sekulić. Sekulić was born in one of Serbia’s lesser-known cities Niš but today, she’s walking us through the capital of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and current capital of Serbia, Belgrade...
2025-04-2430 min
Open CityInterCities: Sheffield with Johny PittsInterCities is a brand new podcast from the team at Open City. In this six-part series, we travel to a number of cities and boroughs around the world that have transformed over time to discover what we can learn from these places’ achievements, struggles, successes and mistakes.In our second episode, our host Owen Hatherley is joined by the broadcaster, writer and photographer Johny Pitts. Johny is a Sheffield-native and has witnessed first-hand the huge social and architectural change the city has undergone since the early 1990s. Today, we use photographs from "After the End of His...
2025-03-2735 min
This Must Be The Placee04 - Owen Hatherley on The Alienation EffectLooking at housing and the home in the UK without looking at migration is impossible. From the Romans, to The Windrush generation and beyond, its impact on how we live our lives is undeniable. It has shaped all aspects of our culture, including how we live in our towns and our homes.
In our fourth episode, we are focused on the wave of refugees fleeing the rise of fascism in Central Europe in the 1930s and how they shaped our town's architecture and much more.
To look at this perhaps under explored aspect of British migration - which included some...
2025-03-171h 01
IlluminatedThe Story of Solent CityAuthor Owen Hatherley goes in search of the lost future of Solent City – the extraordinary plan, devised in the mid-1960s at the height of the post-war modernisation of Britain, to join the historic city-ports of Southampton and Portsmouth with a vast, Los-Angeles style grid.
The plan was finally rejected, but why? - and what were the consequences of its defeat, not only for the region but for the future of urban planning in Britain? Travelling across south Hampshire from Fareham to Portsmouth, Chandler’s Ford to his native Southampton, Owen meets architects, planners and historians to tell...
2025-03-1629 min
Open CityInterCities: Greenwich with Ana Francisco SutherlandInterCities is a brand new podcast from the team at Open City. In this six-part series, we travel to a number of cities and boroughs around the world that have transformed over time to discover what we can learn from these places’ achievements, struggles, successes and mistakes.In our first episode, our host Owen Hatherly is joined by the architect Ana Francisco Sutherland, the director of Francisco Sutherland Architects. Through the lens of Ana’s latest book Modern Buildings in Blackheath and Greenwich, the pair discuss the changing face of the London borough of Greenwich. In a pla...
2025-02-2745 min
The Klassiki PodcastPrefab pictures: cinema of the tower block with Owen HatherleyThe Klassiki Podcast is back for our second season. We’re kicking off with an interview with author Owen Hatherley about the history of the tower block on screen. Widely understood in the West as symbolic of the grey monotony of life behind the Iron Curtain, the prefab tower block remains misunderstood more than three decades after the fall of communism.
To get past the clichés, host Sam Goff sat down with Owen to discuss five films set in and around these mass housing monoliths, from five different directors – including iconic auteurs Béla Tarr, Krzysztof Kieślow...
2024-10-0744 min
JACOBIN PodcastDie roten Wurzeln von Studio Ghibli – von Owen Hatherley
Studio Ghibli ist nicht das japanische Pendant zu Disney – sondern eher ein Anti-Disney. Die Filme der visionären Animatoren, die in der kommunistischen Bewegung Japans politisiert wurden, zelebrieren die Errungenschaften menschlicher Arbeit und die Solidarität gegen Krieg und Kapitalismus.
Artikel vom 18. September 2024: https://jacobin.de/artikel/studio-ghibli-hayao-miyazaki
Seit 2011 veröffentlicht JACOBIN täglich Kommentare und Analysen zu Politik und Gesellschaft, seit 2020 auch in deutscher Sprache. Ab sofort gibt es die besten Beiträge als Audioformat zum Nachhören.
Nur dank der Unterstützung von Magazin-Abonnentinnen und Abonnenten können wir unsere Arbeit machen, mehr Menschen e...
2024-09-2114 min
London Review Bookshop PodcastLondon Feeds Itself: Jonathan Nunn & Owen HatherleyBorn in the pandemic lockdown of 2020, when Britain’s restaurants had closed their doors, Jonathan Nunn founded the online newsletter Vittles, which rapidly established itself as the premier platform for exploring food cultures in Britain and around the world. Out of Vittles was born London Feeds Itself, a fascinating collection of essays written at the intersections of food, architecture, history, and demography. First published by Open City in 2022, London Feeds Itself now appears in a new edition in association with Fitzcarraldo.In this episode, Jonathan Nunn speaks about the project with architectural historian Owen Hatherley, whose essay ‘T...
2024-09-181h 07
Zer0 Books and Repeater MediaOwen Hatherley: Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects: Adventures in Social Democracy in NYC & DCGet the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/walking-the-streets-walking-the-projects-adventures-in-social-democracy-in-nyc-and-dc/A walk through the remnants of a social democratic America, and an argument about its future.In the 1960s, a novel ideology about cities, and what was best for them, emerged in New York. Pushing against the state planning of the time, it held that cities were at their best when they were driven from the bottom-up and when organic, unplanned processes were allowed to run their course, in a spontaneous “ballet of the street”. Cities were at their worst, however, when the state stepped in, demolishing live...
2024-08-2559 min
JACOBIN PodcastDie sozialistische Stadt – von Owen Hatherley
Wie Städte in Zukunft aussehen könnten – und welche Fehler wir besser nicht wiederholen sollten.
Artikel vom 15. Juni 2020: https://www.jacobin.de/artikel/sozialismus-stadt-architektur-stadtplanung-wien-arts-and-crafts
Seit 2011 veröffentlicht JACOBIN täglich Kommentare und Analysen zu Politik und Gesellschaft, seit 2020 auch in deutscher Sprache. Ab sofort gibt es die besten Beiträge als Audioformat zum Nachhören.
Nur dank der Unterstützung von Magazin-Abonnentinnen und Abonnenten können wir unsere Arbeit machen, mehr Menschen erreichen und kostenlose Audio-Inhalte wie diesen produzieren. Und wenn Du schon ein Abo hast und mehr tun möchtest, kannst Du gerne auch etwas...
2024-08-2404 min
JACOBIN PodcastDie Stadt ist tot, es lebe die Stadt! – von Owen Hatherley
Um die Wohnungskrise zu lösen, müssen wir zurück in die Zukunft reisen.
Artikel vom 08. März 2021: https://www.jacobin.de/artikel/wohnungsbau-wien-seoul-london-lewisham-sozialwohnung-wohnsiedlung-peter-barber
Seit 2011 veröffentlicht JACOBIN täglich Kommentare und Analysen zu Politik und Gesellschaft, seit 2020 auch in deutscher Sprache. Ab sofort gibt es die besten Beiträge als Audioformat zum Nachhören.
Nur dank der Unterstützung von Magazin-Abonnentinnen und Abonnenten können wir unsere Arbeit machen, mehr Menschen erreichen und kostenlose Audio-Inhalte wie diesen produzieren. Und wenn Du schon ein Abo hast und mehr tun möchtest, kannst Du gerne auch etwas...
2024-06-0117 min
The Verso PodcastBuilding the Ark: The Life and Legacy of Mike Davis | Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Owen HatherleyThis week on The Verso Podcast Eleanor Penny is joined by Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Owen Hatherley to look at the unflinching work of writer, urban theorist and historian Mike Davis.
Verso x The Dig LIVE Podcast in London with Jeremy Corbyn, Laleh Khalili: tinyurl.com/bj2zx265
You can find Mike Davis' works here: tinyurl.com/3pse83y3
2024-05-301h 23
Novara MediaNovara FM: The Nasty Noughties w/ Owen Hatherley & Ash SarkarThe 2000s were a decade of education, regeneration, falling inequality and Dizzee Rascal.
But beneath the fleeting prosperity lurked a culture of cruelty. It was palpable in politicians' disdain for single mothers, in the media's vilification of chavs, and in TV producers' obsession with pointing and laughing at just about everyone – but don't worry, it's only a joke.
Juliet Jacques is joined by cultural critic Owen Hatherley and Novara Media's Ash Sarkar to talk about why the Noughties were so nasty, from TV and music to architecture and politics.
Help us build people-powered media: https://novara.media/support
2024-02-2259 min
Politics Theory Other[UNLOCKED] Unnatural city - Owen Hatherley on the music of 1980s JapanAround 2010 I became somewhat obsessed with Japanese pop and ambient music of the 1980s - in particular the Yellow Magic Orchestra, the solo records of the members of the group: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi and music by Akiko Yano, Yasuaki Shimizu and Hiroshi Yoshimura amongst many others. Last year I discovered that this was an enthusiasm shared with architectural historian, and very occasional pop music writer, Owen Hartherley who has since written an article partially on the topic:
https://www.jencksfoundation.org/explore/text/japan-at-number-one-ryuichi-sakamoto-s-riot-in-lagos
Although much of the episode is on the music itself, we also...
2023-12-231h 05
Politics Theory OtherExcerpt - Owen Hatherley on the music of 1980s JapanOwen Hatherley joins the show to discuss his love of 1980s Japanese pop and ambient. Although much of the episode is on the music itself, we do touch on the politics - particularly how these artists were influenced by and reacting to the culture of the 1960s New Left, during the extraordinary economic boom of the 1980s, and how some of these musicians reintegrated the memory of 20th century Japanese imperialism in Asia into their music.
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2023-09-2602 min
Open CityCrisis in concrete: the school estate shutdown and how we got hereThe schools estate is crumbling and new revelations over the risks of Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) have forced closures across the country, stoking alarm among parents and forcing the government into crisis. Remediation could cost billions of pounds and meanwhile a whole raft of under-maintained post-war buildings could now face demolition. Is decades of under-investment about to come crashing down?To help us unpack this complex story is Dr Ruth Lang. Ruth is a lecturer in professional practice at the RCA and London School of Architecture, and lead researcher for Low Carbon Housing at Design...
2023-09-1437 min
Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory PodcastEpisode 165 - Favourite Reads of 2022This episode we’re talking about our Favourite Reads of 2022! (Some of them were even published in 2022!) We discuss our favourite things we read for the podcast and our favourite things we read not for the podcast. Plus: Many more things we enjoyed this year, including video games, manga, graphic novels, food, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards Favourite Fi...
2022-12-2057 min
Open CityRight to Buy takes its first bite out of Stirling Prize winning Goldsmith StreetThis week Merlin is joined by the journalist and author of Red Metropolis, Owen HatherleyWandsworth's new council vetoes a development for lacking affordable homes | Right to Buy takes its first bite out of Stirling Prize winning Goldsmith Street | 70 percent of pubs could be forced to close as energy costs spiral | And could Jacob Rees-Mogg be the next housing minister?The Londown is recorded and produced at the Open City offices located in Bureau. Bureau is a co-working space for creatives offering a new approach to membership workspace. Bureau prioritises not just room...
2022-09-0138 min
Suite (212)The End: Politics, culture and criticism in the UK in the 2020sFor Suite (212)'s final edition, host Juliet Jacques talks to writer/editor Owen Hatherley (Tribune and elsewhere) and Fatema Ahmed, acting editor of Apollo, about the current state of British cultural criticism and what the next few years might have in store. They discuss the reasons for stopping Suite (212) and the changing cultural climate between and after the General Elections of 2017 and 2019, and what's happened to the Labour Party; the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic; state funding, the media and the BBC; and what the left might focus on when thinking about the arts and culture.
2022-03-0158 min
Open CityThe Silvertown Tunnel and Modern Buildings in Britain with Owen HatherleyThis week architecture critic Phin Harper steps in for Rachel Copel as host, and speaks to the author and journalist Owen Hatherley.They discuss the 11th hour attempt by Greenwich councillors to block the Silvertown tunnel development, three cases of systemic racism misogyny and discrimination which have appeared in the news this week, the East London pools struggling to stay afloat as demolition and closures loom, and finally Owen's new book 'Modern Buildings in Britain, a new Gazeteer'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2022-02-1737 minZer0 Books and Repeater MediaZer0 Books Archives - Semiotext(e), Lotringer, and the Early Zer0 Blogosphere with Owen HatherleyA retrospective of the life and work of Sylvère Lotringer.Owen Hatherley on Zero: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/ze...Owen's other recent work:https://www.versobooks.com/books/3789...https://repeaterbooks.com/product/red...Support Zer0 Books on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zerobooksSubscribe: http://bit.ly/SubZeroBooksFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZeroBooks/Twitter: https://twitter.com/zer0booksOther links:Check out the projects of some of the new contributors to Zer0 Books:Acid HorizonPatreon: https://w...
2022-02-0653 min
Arts & IdeasHow To Make A Modernist MasterpieceA "house on chicken legs” in Moscow designed by Viktor Andreyev, Virginia Woolf’s novel Jacob’s Room first published on 26 October 1922, Coal Cart Blues sung by Louis Armstrong drawing on his own experiences of pulling one round the streets of New Orleans where he started his teenage years living in a Home for Waifs; Duchamp’s 1912 painting Nude Descending a Staircase, No 2 are picked out as novelist Will Self, art historian and literary critic Alexandra Harris, jazz and music expert Kevin Le Gendre and architecture writer Owen Hatherley try to nail down the elements that make something modernist; looking...
2022-02-0144 minBook Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory PodcastEpisode 141 - Architecture Non-FictionThis episode we’re talking about Architecture Non-Fiction! We discuss statement architecture vs everyday architecture, subway stations, terrible people, and a big book of fun facts! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Things We Read (or tried to…) Tadao Ando: Houses by Philip Jodidio The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live by Sarah Susan...
2022-01-041h 02
Open CityCamden, Heritage, HS2 and TfL with Owen HatherleyThis week Camden is crowned the start up capital, heritage battles rage across the city, HS2 is part-dumped and TfL faces dire financial woes - yet three big names in the London architecture scene make it to the top of the rich list.... Owen Hatherley - the architecture writer, journalist and author of Red Metropolis; a polemical history of municipal socialism in London - joins Merlin in the studio.The Londown is produced in association with the Architects’ Journal. If you enjoyed the show, we recommend you subscribe to the AJ for all the latest news, bu...
2021-11-2535 min
East Marshian ChroniclesHistorian Nick Shepley on the Background and Context of an Inspector CallsThis episode is in support of our Ragged Reading Group’s imminent exploration of J.B. Priestley’s play An Inspector Calls, which was first performed in 1945 at a time of great change - both World Wars were fresh in the minds of the people, women had become more prominent in the workplace and believe it or not people of the 21st Century, it was possible to be class mobile.The play is set in 1912 - this means that the characters have no knowledge of these world events. Priestley uses this to make important points about society and...
2021-11-0233 min
The AntifadaEp 161: Whither the Limeys? w/ Riley Quinn and Nate BetheaThe madlads from TrashFuture are back! Sean is joined by Riley (@raaleh) and Nate (@inthesedeserts) to discuss the very public meltdown of, well, you know, the entire British civilization. As it turns out, things in the UK are even more bleak than they appear from across the pond: supply chains breaking down, petrol stations empty, services being cut, etc. But even more dire, and darkly funny, is the reaction of the British ruling class' which absolutely refuses to rule. Put on your schadenfreude caps before queuing up for this one.
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2021-10-061h 25
London Review Bookshop PodcastOwen Hatherley & Juliet Jacques: Clean Living Under Difficult CircumstancesFrom the grandiose histories of grand state building projects to the minutiae of street signs and corner pubs, from the rebuilding of capital cities to the provision of the humble public toilet, Owen Hatherley’s Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances (Verso) argues for the city as a socialist project. Hatherley was in conversation with Juliet Jacques. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2021-09-2951 min
Politics Theory OtherTeaser - PTO Extra! Owen Hatherley responds to listener questionsOwen joins PTO to respond to listener questions on our recent discussion on Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances, a career spanning new collection of his writings.
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2021-08-0306 min
EU ConfidentialSummer special: Recommended reading, listening and viewingWe have all the recommendations you need for reading, listening and viewing to make the most of your summer holiday — courtesy of the POLITICO podcast crew, special guests and our listeners.This extended episode of EU Confidential features entertaining, as well as enlightening, recommendations from POLITICO's Andrew Gray, Rym Momtaz and Matthew Karnitschnig. Our executive producer Cristina Gonzalez brings us listener recommendations, and we also hear from some of our special guests over the past months.Here's the full list of tips:Reading"Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists" by...
2021-07-2940 min
TRASHFUTUREBarrattly Legal feat. Owen HatherleyThis week, Riley, Milo, and Alice join special guest Owen Hatherley (@owenhatherley) of Tribune Magazine to discuss Barratt Homes: what is the deal with new-build housing in the UK? Why is it of such uniformly bad quality? And why has this become pretty much the only real new construction of homes in this country? Also in this episode: another re-discovered song from Johannes Vonk and the Clogheads.
Owen’s new collection Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances: Finding a Home in the Ruins of Modernism is available from Verso Books here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3789-clean-living-under-difficult-circumstances
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2021-07-201h 16Arts & IdeasWorld's Fairs and the futureFrom the Great Exhibition of 1851 to Shanghai 2010, Owen Hatherley, Emily MacGregor and Paul Greenhalgh explore visions of the future offered by world's fairs and expos with Matthew Sweet. Emily MacGregor describes the row which blew up over music commissioned by William Grant Still for the 1939/40 New York World's Fair. Paul Greenhalgh tells us about world's fairs from London and Paris to Shanghai. Owen Hatherley describes visiting an expo in Kazakhstan.Owen Hatherley's new book is called Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances: Finding a Home in the Ruins of Modernism. He has made a film about the modernism...
2021-06-2445 min
LEFT/OVER PodcastLEFT/OVER Episode 20. - Property-Owning Democracies feat. Owen HatherleyOn the fourth anniversary of Grenfell, we're joined by Owen Hatherley, author and culture editor of Tribune magazine, to talk about the preventability of the tragedy, the deliberate machinations that obfuscate the fight for justice, and the lack of reckoning of the broader issues in the aftermath. Stay tuned for a condensed history of British social housing, the disaster of Right to Buy, an ongoing mess of local authorities and their various delegated bodies and contractors, and what the future might hold.
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2021-06-181h 26
Tribune RadioPolitics Theory Other // Clean living under difficult circumstances w/ Owen HatherleyOwen Hatherley joins PTO to discuss a new career spanning collection of his writings, Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances. We talked about the early 2000s blogging scene as a reaction to New Labour, Owen's writings on music and how Black Box Recorder's work seemed to anticipate the world of Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson. And finally, we talked about Owen's review of K-Punk - the collected writings of Mark Fisher - and the strange phenomenon of American leftists seeing Fisher as a "class first" social democrat, shorn of his theoretical touchstones.
2021-06-1346 min
Politics Theory OtherClean living under difficult circumstances w/ Owen HatherleyOwen Hatherley joins PTO to discuss a new career spanning collection of his writings, Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances. We talked about the early 2000s blogging scene as a reaction to New Labour, Owen's writings on music and how Black Box Recorder's work seemed to anticipate the world of Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson. And finally, we talked about Owen's review of K-Punk - the collected writings of Mark Fisher - and the strange phenomenon of American leftists seeing Fisher as a "class first" social democrat, shorn of his theoretical touchstones.
2021-06-1046 min
TWT FMS2. HolidaysIn this final episode of our series on leisure we look at holidays. During the pandemic, we’ve seen campaigners arguing for the “right to holiday”; now, as we finally begin to open up, we see the complications of permitting limited international travel as the pandemic continues to devastate other countries. Meanwhile, the hospitality industry within the UK braces itself for what could be its busiest ever season.
All this gave us at TWT cause to reflect on the psychic and political framing of holidaying. The aesthetics of holidays are bound by class; from the gentrification and dispos...
2021-06-0858 min
The World TransformedAlternative Guide to the London Boroughs with Owen Hatherley, Aditya Chakrabortty & Rosa NussbaumIn 2020, writer Owen Hatherley published two books about London. One, Red Metropolis was a polemical history of municipal socialism in Britain's capital. The other, was an alternative guide to London's boroughs featuring 33 activists, historians, architects and politicians exploring stories and neighbourhoods from across each of the city's 33 boroughs.
The alternative guide, which was commissioned by Open City, a charity best known for its London-wide festival of remarkable architecture Open House, attempts to unpick the social and political dimensions of London's built fabric while taking the reader on an adventurous journey encompassing everything from Brutalist Polish community centres to suburban garden...
2021-05-181h 27
Open CityWhat does Sadiq Khan mean for London? With Owen HatherleySadiq Khan set for landslide victory winning a second term as London mayor, Open City trustees win job to design 8 billion pound Thamesmead redevelopment, Serpentine Pavilion criticised over un-sustainable concrete foundations, and NEO Bankside residents take Tate Modern to the Supreme Court. Join Zoe Cave and writer, journalist, and author Owen Hatherley as they dissect this week’s top architecture news. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2021-05-0634 min
Open CityThe Alternative Mayoral ElectionPublic fruit orchards in the Royal Parks. A ban on politicians standing for mayor of London. Libraries to serve pints of beer and the decriminalisation of soft drugs. This is the mayoral manifesto of the late musician, artist and manager of the Sex Pistols, Malcolm McLaren who stood for mayor at the turn of the millennium with a truly remarkable campaign.Rather than talk more about this year’s election, today we’re dedicating the whole show to the story of Malcolm’s bid to be mayor. As he said at the time, "It’s the biggest...
2021-05-0338 min
London Review Bookshop PodcastJohn Boughton and Owen Hatherley: Municipal DreamsFrom this 2018 event: In Municipal Dreams (Verso), John Boughton charts the often surprising story of council housing in Britain, from the slum clearances of the Victorian age through to the Grenfell Tower disaster. It’s a history packed with incident – with utopians, visionaries and charlatans, with visionary planners and corrupt officials – and Boughton combines it with an architectural tour of some of the best remaining examples, as well as some of the more ordinary places that millions of people have come to call home. He's in conversation about his book with Owen Hatherley, architectural historian and author of, most recently, The Minis...
2021-04-141h 03Tribune RadioPolitics Theory Other // HyperCurtisisation w/ Owen Hatherley, Juliet Jacques, and Alberto ToscanoOwen Hatherley, Juliet Jacques, and Alberto Toscano join PTO to talk about Adam Curtis's new BBC series Can't Get You Out of My Head. We chatted about Curtis' politics, the changes in his documentary style since the early 1990s, and why he avoids talking about neoliberalism.
2021-03-2935 min
Politics Theory OtherHyperCurtisisation w/ Owen Hatherley, Juliet Jacques, and Alberto ToscanoOwen Hatherley, Juliet Jacques, and Alberto Toscano join PTO to talk about Adam Curtis's new BBC series Can't Get You Out of My Head. We chatted about Curtis' politics, the changes in his documentary style since the early 1990s, and why he avoids talking about neoliberalism.
2021-03-2835 min
AJ Climate ChampionsOwen Hatherley on Modernism + Will Hurst explains RetroFirst (bonus episode)Bonus episode. AJ Climate Champions hosted by Hattie Hartman. Author and critic Owen Hatherley describes approaches to the retrofit of Modernist buildings, lessons learned from post-Soviet housing and why he thinks White Design’s straw bale Lilac Cohousing in Leeds could be a replicable new build approach. The AJ's Will Hurst explains the tactics and ambitions of the RetroFirst campaign, from engaging with MPs to raising public awareness, as well as the policy levers necessary to prioritise retrofit.
In a quick news roundup, hosts Hattie Hartman and George Morgan share their views on Zaha Hadid Architects’ Forest Green R...
2021-03-1146 min
The ArchipelagoThe Archipelago #5: Owen Hatherley – London’s Forgotten Socialist HistoryIn this episode, Owen Hatherley, the author of numerous books including “Militant Modernism” and “Ministry of Nostalgia,” and culture editor of The Tribune magazine, talks about the municipal socialist roots that built London's multiculturalism, the various innovative experiments of London’s municipal authorities, and how all this can inspire its residents to deal with their growing problems in action.
2021-03-1059 minTribune RadioA World to Win // Municipal Socialism w/ Owen HatherleyThis week Grace Blakeley talks to Owen Hatherley, Tribune‘s culture editor and author of many books, including his most recent, Red Metropolis: Socialism and the Government of London.
Grace and Owen discuss municipal socialism, regional and class inequality in the UK, and the future of the Labour Party under Keir Starmer.
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Thanks to our producer Conor Gillies and the Lipman-Miliband Trust for making this episode possible.
2020-12-0900 min
A World to Win with Grace BlakeleyMUNICIPAL SOCIALISM: An interview with Owen HatherleyThis week, Grace talks to Owen Hatherley, Tribune’s culture editor and author of many books, including his most recent Red Metropolis: Socialism and the government of London. We discuss municipal socialism, regional and class inequality in the UK, and the future of the Labour Party under Keir Starmer.
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2020-12-0948 min
London Review Bookshop PodcastOwen Hatherley and Ash Sarkar: Red MetropolisLondon, the Capital of world capitalism, a centre of global finance and a place of immense wealth and privilege, has an often unacknowledged red underbelly, stretching from Herbert Morrison in the 1930s to Sadiq Khan in the 2020s. In Red Metropolis (Repeater), Tribune culture editor and historian Owen Hatherley looks back at that tradition, and argues that a socialist, democratic, pluralist city could become a beacon of hope for the whole country and beyond. Hatherley is in conversation with Novara Media’s senior editor Ash Sarkar.Buy the book from us here: londonreviewbookbox.co.uk/collections/owen-hatherley H...
2020-11-181h 00
Suite (212)Cultural Capital: The Greater London Council's arts policies, 1981-86Established in 1965, the Greater London Council hosted one of the United Kingdom’s most radical experiments in cultural policy after Ken Livingstone and the Labour left took control of it in 1981. This month, Juliet talks to academic Hazel Atashroo and Red Metropolis author Owen Hatherley about the entrance of the “post-1968 generation” into the GLC, and their approach to the arts: their interest in cultural democracy and challenging the Arts Council’s model of centralised funding; the Ethnic Arts and Community Arts sub-committees, and their critics; their use of post-punk aesthetics and their hip hop festival; their engagement with the Campaign...
2020-11-1757 min
WORLD: we got thisBonus episode | The global housing crisis with Dr Deborah Potts and Prof Phil HubbardBonus Episode. The podcast is taken from a live event we ran entitled 'Broken Cities: the Global Housing Crisis In Focus' in which Dr Deborah Potts and Prof Phil Hubbard spoke with Owen Hatherley, Editor at Tribune Magazine about the global housing crisis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com
2020-11-121h 01Tribune RadioPolitics Theory Other // Morrissey, nationalism, and the aesthetics of English misery w/ Owen Hatherley & Kojo KoramOwen Hatherley and Kojo Koram join PTO to talk about Owen's essay, 'A Study in the Politics and Aesthetics of English Misery'. In the essay Owen reflects on the generational divides that have emerged over the course of the last two UK general elections by charting the musical evolution of The Smiths. Comparing Morrissey’s political trajectory to those of many voters throughout the North of England, Owen investigates the roots of the North’s departure from anti-Thatcherite collectivism to nationalist reaction. You can find the essay in 'Futures of Socialism: The Pandemic and the Post-Corbyn Era', edited by Grac...
2020-10-1732 min
Politics Theory Other#99 Morrissey, nationalism, and the aesthetics of English misery w/ Owen Hatherley & Kojo KoramOwen Hatherley and Kojo Koram join PTO to talk about Owen's essay, 'A Study in the Politics and Aesthetics of English Misery'. In the essay Owen reflects on the generational divides that have emerged over the course of the last two UK general elections by charting the musical evolution of The Smiths. Comparing Morrissey’s political trajectory to those of many voters throughout the North of England, Owen investigates the roots of the North’s departure from anti-Thatcherite collectivism to nationalist reaction. You can find the essay in 'Futures of Socialism: The Pandemic and the Post-Corbyn Era', edited by Grace Blak...
2020-10-1632 min
Open CityThe Alternative Guide To London BoroughsFor this episode of the Open City podcast, we speak to the guest-editor of the book, critic and author, Owen Hatherley, who talks about why this guide and its focus on the extraordinariness of the more ordinary parts of London, is a rare find when talking about the capital’s architecture. We discuss pertinent topics such as London before, during and after lockdown; the disparity between how London is imagined and viewed, compared to how it is lived and experienced across the boroughs; and the unique spatial configurations of this city that shapes the lives of Londoners.The episode is a...
2020-09-1837 min
Break Out Culture With Ed Vaizey by Country and Town HouseEpisode #06 - Digital Theatre, Free Culture For All and Lifting the Lid on Undiscovered LondonThis week: Neelay Patel on how Digital Theatre is transforming young people’s lives and revitalising the theatre world, Phil Edgar-Jones on how and why we’re all going to be watching Sky Arts for free and Hafsa Adan on exploring hidden, uncelebrated parts of London at this weekend’s Open House Festival.
We’re tuning into Sky Arts for free on Freeview from midday Thursday 17th September
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Teachers, libraries and all educ...
2020-09-1433 min
The Architectural Review PodcastAR Bookshelf: Owen HatherleyIn the third chapter of the AR Bookshelf, Owen Hatherley reveals Southampton’s secrets, how to solve the housing crisis and why Brutalism mania has gone too far. Join us on a journey from Southampton to Moscow, via Los Angeles, London and Warsaw, all without leaving home.
The AR Bookshelf, a podcast by The Architectural Review, invites the most interesting and influential names in architecture to put books on an imaginary bookshelf and tell us their story.
2020-07-2038 min
The Architectural Review PodcastAR Bookshelf: Owen HatherleyIn the third chapter of the AR Bookshelf, Owen Hatherley reveals Southampton’s secrets, how to solve the housing crisis and why Brutalism mania has gone too far. Join us on a journey from Southampton to Moscow, via Los Angeles, London and Warsaw, all without leaving home.
The AR Bookshelf, a podcast by The Architectural Review, invites the most interesting and influential names in architecture to put books on an imaginary bookshelf and tell us their story.
2020-07-2038 min
Dash Arts PodcastLIVE: Brussels: Whose City Is It Anyway?In this week's LIVE episode we delve into Brussels; the complex, cosmopolitan, interconnected city that's home to the EU.We look at the city's troubling history with colonialism, explore the impact of the European Union HQ on its inhabitants and architecture, and hear from artists living and creating change in the city.Hosted by our Artistic Director Josephine Burton, this episode features prominent academic and activist Eric Corijn, poet Elisabeth Severino Fernandes (aka Miss Elli) and writer and journalist Owen Hatherley.Make sure you like, subscribe, rate, review and share after li...
2020-06-0352 min
London Review Bookshop PodcastPlastic Emotions: Shiromi Pinto, Owen Hatherley and Olivia Sudjic‘We architects must be idealists’, wrote Minnette de Silva, Sri Lanka’s first female architect. Shiromi Pinto’s second novel, Plastic Emotions (Influx Press) is based on de Silva’s life, charting her affair with Le Corbusier and her attempt to rebuild Sri Lanka in the aftermath of independence. Pinto was in conversation with Owen Hatherley, whose most recent book is The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space, and Olivia Sudjic, the author of Exposure. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2020-04-0850 min
Suite (212)The Suite (212) Sessions, no. 3 - Owen HatherleyIn the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with contemporary artists, writers, filmmakers and other cultural figures, conducted via Skype (so apologies for the diminished audio quality), about their practices, the political issues that inspire them and the socio-economic conditions that have shaped their work.
In the third of these Sessions, Juliet talks to London-based writer Owen Hatherley, editor of Tribune magazine’s culture section, about the blogging circle in which he began writing in the mid-2000s; his experiences of wr...
2020-03-3157 min
Politics Theory OtherTeaser - PTO Extra! There's a Starmer waiting in the sky w/ Owen HatherleyOwen Hatherley joins me to discuss his recent article on Keir Starmer and the Labour leadership contest. You can read the piece here:
https://medium.com/@owenhatherley/theres-a-starmer-waiting-in-the-sky-f2d26a9c4e97
2020-03-0102 min
Grab This Edge-Of-Your-Seat Full Audiobook — Perfect In The Car.Militant Modernism by Owen HatherleyPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/162925to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Militant Modernism
Author: Owen Hatherley
Narrator: Toby Longworth
Format: mp3
Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
Release date: 11-20-19
Ratings: Not rated yet
Genres: Modern
Publisher's Summary:
Militant Modernism is a defense against modernism's many detractors. It looks at design, film, and architecture - especially, architecture - and pursues the notion of an evolved modernism that simply refuses to stop being necessary. Owen Hatherley gives us new ways to look at what we thought was familiar - Bertolt Brecht, Le Corbusier, even Vladimir Mayakovsky.
2019-11-203h 45
The Booking ClubHow Britain Learned to Consume Austerity, with Owen HatherleyIn 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 recas...
2019-05-1028 minTribune RadioPolitics Theory Other // Scott Walker's musical journey w/ Owen HatherleyTribune Culture Editor Owen Hatherley on the music and life of the late Scott Walker. We spoke about Walker's journey from teen heartthrob with the Walker Brothers, to the creator of some of the most challenging music in the history of pop. We discuss the big band, crooner tradition that Walker emerged from, the radical break in his work with 1978's Nite Flights and the political pessimism of his later records. To accompany the episode here is a playlist of Walker's work:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1xEf8KGVxK6IRpKSLc6FOS
2019-05-0300 min
Politics Theory Other#46 Owen Hatherley on Scott Walker's strange musical journeyOwen Hatherley joins me to discuss the music and life of the late Scott Walker. We spoke about his journey from teen heartthrob with the Walker Brothers, to the creator of some of the most challenging music in the history of pop. We discuss the big band, crooner tradition that Walker emerged from, the radical break in his work with 1978's Nite Flights and the political pessimism of his later records. To accompany the episode here is a playlist of Walker's work:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1xEf8KGVxK6IRpKSLc6FOS
2019-05-0330 min
Bristol TransformedTransforming HousingTransforming Housing - The opening panel from Bristol Transformed held at Malcolm X Community Centre.
Housing panel with Owen Hatherley, Sasha Sadjady, Oona Goldsworthy, Paul Smith, Ben Beach, chaired by Zoe Goodman.
2019-04-0600 minTRASHFUTURENostalgia Avengers: Infinity WW2 feat. Owen HatherleyWe love Britain and British things. We’re a podcast suffused with the Blitz Spirit, the Dunkirk Spirit, the Dying of Black Lung Spirit, and in honour of that, we decided to take on the big issues of modern Britain, such as the following: some rich people tried to sue the Tate Modern because they didn’t want to buy curtains. This week, Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Nate (@inthesedeserts) spoke with Tribune Magazine culture editor Owen Hatherley (@owenhatherley) about the Tate Modern viewing platform, architecture in London, Winston f**king Churchill, and much more.
Pl...
2019-02-191h 03
TRASHFUTURENostalgia Avengers: Infinity WW2 feat. Owen HatherleyWe love Britain and British things. We’re a podcast suffused with the Blitz Spirit, the Dunkirk Spirit, the Dying of Black Lung Spirit, and in honour of that, we decided to take on the big issues of modern Britain, such as the following: some rich people tried to sue the Tate Modern because they didn’t want to buy curtains. This week, Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), and Nate (@inthesedeserts) spoke with Tribune Magazine culture editor Owen Hatherley (@owenhatherley) about the Tate Modern viewing platform, architecture in London, Winston f**king Churchill, and much more.
Pl...
2019-02-191h 03
Suite (212)Politics and the English Language: The life and legacy of George OrwellSince his untimely death in January 1950, aged 46, George Orwell has been turned into a secular saint, with his Cold War-era novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four making Orwell - a democratic socialist - a hero to anti-communists across the world, but especially in England. This week, Juliet talks to critic Fatema Ahmed and writer Owen Hatherley about how and why Orwell became so revered, whether this reverence is useful, and how his writing might be reclaimed or reassessed by the contemporary British left.
SELECTED REFERENCES
WORKS BY GEORGE ORWELL
Animal Farm (1945)
Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)
Homage to...
2019-02-1157 min
Podcast From The PastDAISY BUCHANAN & OWEN HATHERLEY - That Donkey's Grandchildren Are DeadJoining Tom Jackson to discuss the postcards from their pasts are journalist, agony aunt, author and podcaster DAISY BUCHANAN (How To Be A Grown-Up, You're Booked, The Sisterhood, Guardian, Telegraph) and journalist and author OWEN HATHERLEY (The Ministry of Nostalgia, Militant Modernism, Landscapes of Communism, The Chaplin Machine). In this episode we bathe in colourful neon light in 1970s Poland, ride the gentler funfair rides at Margate Dreamland, get lost in Venice, learn the secrets of the Jilly Cooper Book Club, and sing a hymn to dusty postcard shops. Pack your bags and book your bed and breakfast - we're...
2019-01-1842 min
Radicals in ConversationTribuneThis September, Pluto relaunched the Left Book Club, a project originally founded by Victor Gollancz in 1936. The aim of the Left Book Club was simple, to popularise ideas of the left and combat the rise of fascism. By the eve of the Second World War, the LBC had reached a membership of nearly 60,000 - with 1,200 reading groups scattered around the country.
What made the LBC so necessary in the 1930's are the same things that make its relaunch so important today. In a context of rising ethno-nationalism and an economic system that fuels inequality, we need a spa...
2018-11-1542 min
Suite (212)John Calder - A Life in PublishingJohn Calder (1927-2018) was a giant of 20th century literary publishing, and a champion of free speech. Best known for publishing Samuel Beckett's novels and poetry, he brought much of the most innovative European literature of the 20th century to an English-speaking audience, ultimately won a landmark obscenity trial over Hubert Selby Jr's 'Last Exit to Brooklyn' and has inspired several generations of exciting writers and publishers.
Joining Juliet to discuss Calder's life and legacy is Alex Kovacs, author of 'The Currency of Paper' (2013), who worked in Calder's bookshop in London in 2008-10.
Alessandro Gallenzi's obituary for John Calder: https...
2018-10-081h 00
Suite (212)EXTRA: Against Simple Answers: Art, sexuality and society in KyrgyzstanSince becoming independent from the collapsing Soviet Union in 1991, Kyrgyzstan has attracted some attention in the West for its two revolutions (in 2005 and 2010) and the 'gay propaganda' bill introduced to its parliament in 2014, but never passed. Sometimes referred to by European liberals as 'the Switzerland of Central Asia' for its relatively democratic constitution, Kyrgzystan has a complicated relationship with its Soviet past, a fascinating artistic history and a vibrant queer and feminist culture fighting hard against virulent homophobia and misogyny.
In this episode of Suite (212) Extra, Juliet Jacques - who has twice visited Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek, and written extensively about...
2018-10-081h 11
London Review Bookshop PodcastTrans-Europe Express: Owen Hatherley and Lynsey HanleyIn ‘Trans-Europe Express’, Owen Hatherley sets out to explore the European city across the entire continent, to see what exactly makes it so different to the Anglo-Saxon norm - the unplanned, car-centred, developer-oriented spaces common to the US, Ireland, UK and Australia. Attempting to define the European city, Hatherley finds a continent divided both within the EU and outside it. Hatherley was at the Bookshop in conversation with Lynsey Hanley, author of ‘Estates: An Intimate History’ (Granta) and ‘Respectable: The Experience of Class’ (Penguin). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2018-08-2151 min
Publishing InsightS1 E1: EditorialFor this first episode, all about working in Editorial, I visited Penguin Random House offices in London to interview Simon Winder, Publishing Director at Penguin Press and Ellen Davies (on Twitter @ellenannedavies), Editorial Assistant.
Update: blog post interview with Ellen in May 2020 - https://www.publishing-insight.com/post/2-years-later-ellen-johl
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Books mentioned:
- Underground Asia by Tim H...
2018-06-1041 min
Failed Architecture#03 Modernism Distorted: Selling Utopia From Kleiburg to Keeling HouseStereotypes regarding Modernist architecture, and in particular the negative discourse on Amsterdam’s Bijlmer estate, have been quite crucial in shaping Failed Architecture’s way of thinking in its early years. Can we really blame the architecture for what went wrong? How can an entire neighbourhood, where thousands of people continue to live their lives on a daily basis, be simply dismissed as a grand failure? In recent years, however, there has been a slow but steady reappreciation of Modernist architecture taking place, but rather for its aesthetics than its social ideals.
While architecture from that era is s...
2018-06-0758 min
Suite (212)Prole Art Threat: The Fall, post-punk and popular modernismJuliet talks to Owen Hatherley (author of 'Militant Modernism', 'A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain', 'Landscapes of Communism' and many other books) and David Stubbs (formerly of Melody Maker, and a writer on '1996 and the End of History' as well as Krautrock and electronic music) about the life and work of Mark E. Smith, who sadly died last month.
They discuss The Fall in the context of post-industrial Manchester, the post-punk scene, a changing (and ever less intelligent) music press, modernist literature and pop culture, and think about the group's legacy.
WORKS REFERENCED
LoneLady - Hinterland (2015...
2018-02-1959 min
Shoulder of Orion: The Blade Runner Podcast16 // I'm Here for Mr. Wallace: Interviews with Dr. Robin BunceDr. Robin Bunce, a historian of political ideas at the University of Cambridge, published a thought-provoking article in the New Statesman in October on how Blade Runner 2049's dystopian setting feels unsettlingly close to our own current cultural-political moment. We reached out to him for an interview, and it was so fascinating we called him back for a follow-up! In the first half, Patrick talks to Robin about geopolitics, architecture, slaves, distribution of wealth, and more; in the second half, JM focuses on why Dr. Bunce thinks Luv is the most fascinating character in the whole film.
Be su...
2017-12-041h 31
London Review Bookshop PodcastDavid Harvey and Owen HatherleyMarx’s Das Kapital, published in three volumes between 1867 and 1883, exercised a profound influence on the history and politics of the 20th century, and, despite the expectations of many, continues to resonate through the 21st. In Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason (Profile), David Harvey, Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York Graduate School and the author of many highly acclaimed books on Marx and Marxism, explains in clear and concise language just what it is that makes Marx’s analysis so powerful, and what it still continues to offer us for the future. Harvey was...
2017-11-281h 01
Suite (212)Memories of the Future: The cultural legacy of the Russian RevolutionOne hundred years after the Russian Revolution, the intellectual and ideological nature of the art and culture produced between October 1917 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 remained hotly debated and, at times, poorly understood. Here, Juliet Jacques welcomes writer/critics Maria Chehonadskih, Owen Hatherley (author of Militant Modernism (2009), Landscapes of Communism (2015) and The Chaplin Machine (2016)) and Ilia Rogatchevski to discuss the cultural legacy of the Soviet period and challenge Western preconceptions about the relationship between art and politics in the former USSR, from the Constructivist energy of the 1920s and imposition of Socialist Realism under Stalin, all the...
2017-09-1859 min
Royal Academy of ArtsConcrete fetishes: the ghost of Brutalism's radical social agendaToday, although its monuments are vanishing, Brutalism enjoys a ghostly afterlife. Following decades of official and public contempt, its rehabilitation began when concrete tower blocks featured prominently in 1990s music videos by Britpop groups such as Blur and Suede. This revival continued in mid-2000s blogs by writers such as Owen Hatherley, and today it flourishes in Instagram accounts, soft furnishings, art galleries and coffee-table books.
Meanwhile the buildings themselves have become hot property, changing hands for sums that are far beyond the means of their intended inhabitants. What are the causes of this strange resurgence in Brutalism’s popularity? Is...
2017-03-2800 min
Reel Politik PodcastReel Politik, Episode 11 - A Confederacy of NoncesIn our new episode, Jack and Yair review films including The Fear of 13, the Number 23, Weiner, Anthropoid, Carol, the Spectre of Marxism, the Spirit of '45 and Tony Benn: Will and Testament, as well as Owen Hatherley's book The Ministry of Nostalgia. Also discussed is the recent revelation that noted fascist M*lo Yishjidnaofsfasff is a massive nonce, the libertarian-fash intersection that provided him with a ready-made fanbase of bitter, pubescent nerd men, and also two comedy sketches we wrote in 2015 are given an airing. These are our ways of keeping you under our control!
2017-02-2157 min
World Policy On AirWorld Policy On Air, Ep. 74: "The Feebleness of the Northern Powerhouse"The U.K.'s Conservative government launched a plan to revitalize the northern industrial cities of Manchester, Sheffield, Liverpool, Hull, and Newcastle as a unified region to rival Greater London. On today’s episode of World Policy On Air, architectural critic and author Owen Hatherley surveys problems with creating the "Northern Powerhouse," even before Brexit raised new questions about the administration's political future.
2016-07-0127 min
Danny DorlingThe ministry of nostalgia and Inequality & the 1%Owen Hatherley and Danny Dorling, chaired by Lesley Riddoch. Aye Write Book Festival, Mitchell Library, Glasgow, March 18th 2016
2016-03-1955 min
The Verso PodcastMemories Of The Future: Owen Hatherley, Douglas Murphy & Shumi Bose in conversationWhat happened to the future? Owen Hatherley and Douglas Murphy explode the distortions of history that obscure our present and future in their new respective books The Ministry of Nostalgia and Last Futures.
Excavating the lost archeology of the present day, Douglas Murphy’s Last Futures is a fascinating, mind-bending cultural history of the last avant-garde. Through a cast of architects, dreamers, thinkers, hippies and designers, Murphy diagnoses the source of our current situation and steers us towards powerful alternative futures.
In a sharp, witty polemic, Owen Hatherley skewers the contemporary nostalgia for a utopian past that never existed. Why, in...
2016-02-1952 min
Little AtomsLittle Atoms 404 - The Ministry of Nostalgia and Landscapes of CommunismOwen Hatherley 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, including Militant Modernism, A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain and A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys through Urban Britain. His latest books are Landscapes of Communism, and The Ministry of Nostalgia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2016-02-0359 min
ConSequentialEpisode 51: Roger's Crapsack Spectacular
Like a glorious phoenix that just properly could not be bothered for a bit over Christmas, we're back! We're covering some indie comics we picked up last year, and a load that were in a slightly wet bag in Roger's house. Pretty good stuff.Plus: watch a sad man's life disintegrate before your very ears when he learns that never again will he get to taste the sweet, sweet nectar of a Panda Pop.Also: learn which member of the team accused a small local police force of being child abusers on local TV news...
2016-01-281h 11
Start the WeekArchitecture and power - from Stalinist structures to model villagesOn Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe looks at the landscapes of communism with the writer Owen Hatherley whose new book reflects how power transformed the cities of the twentieth century. Jacqueline Yallop looks back at one of the most enduring experiments of Victorian philanthropy - the utopian 'model' village. The architect Graham Morrison is involved in a model village of his own, the regeneration and development of the 67 acre site at Kings Cross, and the artist Doug Aitken, famous for his large scale outdoor film installations which he's called 'liquid architecture', is creating a 30-day happening, Station-to-Station.
Producer: Katy...
2015-06-2241 min
Staden podcastOwen Hatherley Staden extramaterialOwen Hatherley är en brittisk arkitektur- och kulturjournalist som i flera böcker och artiklar har gått till angrepp mot den stadsbyggnadsregim som växt fram i Storbritannien under 1990- och 2000-talen. Framför allt har Hatherley hårt kritiserat hur arvet efter det brittiska välfärdssamhället och den modernistiska eran inom planering och arkitektur har förvanskats och deformerats. Det har fått till följd, enligt Hatherley, att brittiska städer missuppfattar vad det är som får dem att fungera, fysiskt och socialt.I vårt samtal med Owen Hatherley talar han bland annat om hur man kan b...
2015-03-2325 minStaden podcastOwen Hatherley Staden extramaterialOwen Hatherley är en brittisk arkitektur- och kulturjournalist som i flera böcker och artiklar har gått till angrepp mot den stadsbyggnadsregim som växt fram i Storbritannien under 1990- och 2000-talen. Framför allt har Hatherley hårt kritiserat hur arvet efter det brittiska välfärdssamhället och den modernistiska eran inom planering och arkitektur har förvanskats och deformerats. Det har fått till följd, enligt Hatherley, att brittiska städer missuppfattar vad det är som får dem att fungera, fysiskt och socialt.I vårt samtal med Owen Hatherley talar han bland annat om hur man kan b...
2015-03-2325 min
Notebook on Cities and CultureS4E33: Avoiding Disposability with Jacques TestardColin Marshall sits down in Knightsbridge, London with Jacques Testard, founding editor of the quarterly arts journal The White Review. They discuss the re-issue of Nairn's Towns featuring past guest Owen Hatherley; London's surprisingly small literary culture and what, before founding The White Review, he didn't see getting published; the "deeply stereotypical Williamsburg existence" he once lived in New York (in an apartment called "Magicland", no less); his path from his hometown of Paris to London, and what those cities throw into contrast about each other; the conversations he's had with his also-bilingual brother about the differences between reading and s...
2014-04-2900 minNotebook on Cities and CultureS4E29: This Used to Be the Future with Owen HatherleyColin Marshall sits down for bangers and mash in Woolwich, London, England, with writer on political aesthetics Owen Hatherley, author of the books Militant Modernism, A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, A New Kind of Bleak, and Uncommon, on the pop group Pulp. They discuss the relevance of the combined sentiments of the Pet Shop Boys and the Human League to his critical mission; his sickness of "where's my jetpack"-type complaint; the new limits of the possible; whether one more easily sees politics expressed in architecture in England that elsewhere; the coincidental rises of the welfare...
2014-04-0600 min
London Review Bookshop PodcastIan Nairn: Words in Place. With Gillian Darley, David McKie and Owen HatherleyGillian Darley and David McKie’s study of Nairn - Ian Nairn: Words in Place – published by Five Leaves, reintroduces to a new generation an architectural critic whose work has influenced writers and critics such as J.G. Ballard, Will Self, Iain Sinclair and Jonathan Meades, who once described Nairn as ‘a great poet of the metropolis’. Gillian Darley and David McKie discussed Ian Nairn’s life and work, and Owen Hatherley, author of A New Kind of Bleak and A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain chaired this discussion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...
2013-11-191h 20
Front Row: Archive 2013The Book of Mormon; Lee Mack; London Zoo Tiger HouseWith John WilsonThe Broadway hit musical The Book Of Mormon has opened in London. The show is a satirical tale of Mormon missionaries visiting a Ugandan village threatened by a brutal warlord. Book, lyrics and music are by Trey Parker and Matt Stone - creators of the animated comedy, South Park - and Robert Lopez, composer of Avenue Q. Grace Dent reviews.Comedian Lee Mack, writer and star of TV sitcom Not Going Out, talks about surviving the death of British sitcom, the perfect gag-rate and filming two alternative endings for the new series...
2013-03-2228 min
City SeminarCity Seminar - 8 November 2011 - On the Plaza: Post-Soviet Urban EnsemblesOwen Hatherley (Author)
2011-11-101h 08
Collective Gallery PodcastsThe Performance of Public Art Symposium: Owen HatherleyOwen Hatherley is a writer and journalist based in London who writes primarily on architecture, politics and culture. Hatherley is a regular contributor to Building Design, New Statesman and New Humanist and has also written for The Guardian and Icon. His first book Militant Modernism was published by 0 Books in 2009 and was described by The Guardian as an "intelligent and passionately argued attempt to 'excavate utopia' from the ruins of modernism". Hatherley presents 'A New Kind of Bleak: Blair's Buildings, before and after the boom'. Unfortunately due to an error with the recording equipment Hatherley's talk is incomplete.
2011-08-2634 min
Four ThoughtOwen Hatherley: The Decline of ArchitectureWriter and cultural critic Owen Hatherley attacks the architectural results of recent "urban regeneration". He regrets the loss of confidence in a vision of how cities of the future should be. Defending the buildings of the 1960s, he says: "Even the most reviled of blocks contain spacious apartments," whereas "the new blocks you can see everywhere are designed from the outside in - irregular windows and brightly coloured cladding hides the tiny mean proportions and a total lack of planning for human use." Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought...
2011-08-1714 min