The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space

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The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space

Thu, 15 November7 : 00 PM
Location 22 Calvert Ave, London E2, Calvert 22

The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space

Journey across the towns and great cities of the USSR with architecture critic Owen Hatherley at the launch of his new book The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space (Repeater Books).

Owen Hatherley — “one of our most provocative voices on culture and architecture today” (Owen Jones) — will be in conversation with Sam Goff of The Calvert Journal about his journey across 11 former Soviet countries and the search for the remnants of revolutions, utopias, Communism, and alternatives to how we build cities today.

About the book

Travelling across eleven of the fifteen countries that once made up the Soviet Union, this book searches for the remnants of revolutions both distant and recent and for the continuities with the Communist idea. Instead of a wistful journey through ruins, this is a Marxist Humanist account of how cities and their inhabitants have tried to cope both with the end of a socialist dream and the failure of capitalism to fulfill its own promises. In this patchwork of EU democracies, neoliberal dictatorships and Soviet nostalgic enclaves (often found in the same countries) we might just find the outlines of a way of building and living in cities that is a powerful alternative, both in the past and present.

About the author

Owen Hatherley writes regularly on aesthetics and politics for, among others, the Architectural Review, The Calvert Journal, Dezeen, the Guardian, Jacobin, the London Review of Books and New Humanist. He is the author of several books, including Landscapes of Communism (Penguin, 2015), The Ministry of Nostalgia (Verso, 2016), The Chaplin Machine (Pluto, 2016), and Trans-Europe Express (Penguin, 2018).

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