Militant Modernism

Militant Modernism is a defence 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. Through Hatherley's eyes we see all of the quotidian modernists of the 20th century - lesser lights, too - perhaps understanding them for the first time. Whether we are looking at Britain's brutalist aesthetics, Russian Constructivism, or.

Forwards (not Forgetting); Retracing; Eldorado for the Working Class; 1: The Brutishness of British Modernism; An Englishman's Home is his Fortress; The Aesthetics of Hell; 'The Great London Vortex': Wyndham Lewis as Chav; The Greater London Council Vortex: A Bit of the Old Ultraviolence; Everyone on Park Hill came in unison at 4.13 AM; Future Ruins; 2: A Hole into the Future; Red Planet Mars; Theories of Ruin Value; The Revolution of Everyday Life; The Institute for the Transformation of Mankind; 3: Revolutionary Orgasm Problems; Energetic Functionalism

Physical Culture in the Love Hotel and the Minimum DwellingMake Way for Winged Eros!; From Sexpol to Sexploitation; I Still Dream of Orgonon; 4: Alienation Affects; Godot Vs Galileo; Who's Afraid of the Verfremdungseffekt?; A Threepenny Film and a Threepenny Lawsuit; A Short Course in Realism from the Perspective of the Police; The Half That's Never Been Told; Afterwards; The Unmaking of a Counter-Culture; Towards a New Proletcult; Acknowledgements; Notes