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The Ministry of Nostalgia

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The Ministry of Nostalgia

Why should we have to â€œKeep Calm and Carry Onâ€?

In this brilliant polemical rampage, Owen Hatherley shows how our past is being resold in order to defend the indefensible. From the marketing of a â€œmake do and mendâ€ 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 recast to explain and offer consolation for the violence of neoliberalism, an ideology dedicated to the privatisation of our common wealth.

In coruscating proseâ€”with subjects ranging from Ken Loachâ€™s documentaries, Turner Prizeâ€“shortlisted video art, London vernacular architecture, and Jamie Oliverâ€™s cookingâ€”Hatherley issues a passionate challenge to the injunction to keep calm and carry on.

From the Hardcover edition.

Country	USA
Author	Owen Hatherley
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781784780784
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Verso
Manufacturer	Verso
NumberOfPages	224
PublicationDate	2016-02-09
Publisher	Verso
ReleaseDate	2016-02-09
Studio	Verso

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