{"id":2186,"date":"2014-04-05T20:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T03:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2014-04-05T20:01:51","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T03:01:51","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s4e29-this-used-to-be-the-future-with-owen-hatherley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2186","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S4E29: This Used to Be the Future with Owen Hatherley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2187\" style=\"margin: 5px; border: 0px;\" title=\"owenhatherley\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/owenhatherley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/owenhatherley.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/owenhatherley-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down for bangers and mash in Woolwich, London, England, with writer on political aesthetics <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/owenhatherley\">Owen Hatherley<\/a>, author of the books <em>Militant Modernism<\/em>, <em>A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain<\/em>, <em>A New Kind of Bleak<\/em>, and <em>Uncommon<\/em>, on the pop group Pulp. They discuss the relevance of <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/IZC97g7wSFk\">the combined sentiments of the Pet Shop Boys and the Human League<\/a> to his critical mission; his sickness of &#8220;where&#8217;s my jetpack&#8221;-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 state and modern architecture; the nature of England&#8217;s north-south divide, one starker than that between the former East and West Germany, the unexpected tasteless drama of northern building, and the &#8220;ruin porn&#8221; richness of towns like Bradford and Liverpool; housing as the chief political issue of modern Britain; the shamefacedness of new English building, and the tendency of it to bear little relation to its own location; his view of buildings like the now-demolished Tricorn Centre in childhood, before he&#8217;d internalized &#8220;what architecture should look like&#8221;; how the still-standing Preston Bus Station demonstrated that a provincial city wasn&#8217;t parochial; the long-gone heyday of the City Architect; his upcoming book on architecture and communism, and what he&#8217;s discovered in his exploration of eastern Europe; why he might feel the need for a disclaimer stating that he already knows about the gulag; and how he found that the Soviet regime generated much more nostalgia, in its buildings and otherwise, than people think.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/colinmarshall\/NCC_S4E29_Owen_Hatherley.mp3\">here as an MP3<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin 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. 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