Book Launch: Pierre Guyotat: Revolutions & Aberrations by Stephen Barber
27 May 2016 6:00 pm | Studio | ICA Pierre Guyotat has been a unique figure in art and writing over the past 50 years, inspiring innumerable artists, film-makers, writers and choreographers. Foucault, Pasolini, Genet, Barthes, Derrida and many others lauded his work in the 1960s and 70s, and protested against its governmental censorship in […]
The Liberal Politics of Adolf Hitler
His evocations of white working class London life in the back end of the twentieth century. The very texture of that life, of male friendship, which is so hard to define and yet he nailed effortlessly in book after book. Love and sex and death, peace and war, hard times and good. The willingness to go to places, like the football casual culture of orbital London boroughs, where other writers fear to tread. The warmth and humanity of it all.
Max Dunbar reviews John King‘s The Liberal Politics of Adolf Hitler.
The Architecture of Crisis
Looking at ruins and seeing beauty, seeing something aesthetic and “awesome” and desirable, represents a refusal to engage with the systems of policy, finance, and crisis which give rise to space and dismantle it. All these coffee table books and blogs do little more than comfort and accustom us to urban and architectural ruination — they do not shock us, or prompt us to ask questions.
Owen Vince on the banalization of ruins and the architecture of crisis.