Nostalgia for the Interplanetary
My review-feature-attempt-at-brief-history-of Richard Pare's The Lost Vanguard, and more generally Constructivism via science fiction and ruins, is now up at Archinect, veering from HG Wells and Bogdanov to Okhitovich and Trotsky in far too many words. The piece is an early version of a chapter from The Forthcoming Book, so any comments and critiques will be very highly appreciated. Incidentally, of the many excellent links provided in the text by the esteemed Mr Jourden, this paper on the extremely unpleasant politics of Philip Johnson is one of the most intriguing.
posted by owen hatherley at 5:52 pm
3 Comments:
I had no idea about Johnson's politics during his life as there was never a bad word said about him. Then one day he died, and all the obituaries went something like; "good riddance, he was a f**king nazi."
Owen, great writing and keen subject worthy of publication.
I'm sure you're aware and using:
Dreamworld and Catastrophe by Susan Buck-Morss.
She has a photo and the caption of the Eisenstein photo that you put up recently.
Thousand Points: well I read it after writing the Constructivism piece but before posting SE and his cactus. The thing that really annoyed me was that she'd written about the king kong/palace of the Soviets connection, which I'd thought I was the only person to spot...
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