Kraftwerk seemed to be aiming at a kind of electronic Esperanto, an imaginary universal language that anyone could learn, anyone could speak, anyone could dance to.
Owen Hatherley’s most recent book is Transitional Objects: Photographs of Poland.
Kraftwerk seemed to be aiming at a kind of electronic Esperanto, an imaginary universal language that anyone could learn, anyone could speak, anyone could dance to.
Owen Hatherley talks to Ash Sarkar about his latest book Red Metropolis, in which he looks at the red underbelly of London, Capital of world capitalism.
London’s promotion to the status of ‘world city’ in the past twenty years has less to do with its diversity than with the opportunities it presents for property investments more stable than gold,...
Back in the day, everyone knew that Stalinist architecture was hateful.
Owen Hatherley understands the dangers of ‘nostalgia for the future’, but he’s too far gone to pull out.
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