20th century modernism
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aesthetic modernism
aesthetics
analysing modernism
architects
architecture
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defending modernism
disneyfication
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evolutionary modernism
gothic
modernist architects
modernist architecture
modernist utopianism
philosophy
political modernism
reborn socialist
Russian constructivism
socialist modernism
utopian
utopian spirit
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- ISBN 9781917991322
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 28 May 2026
- Publisher: Collective Ink
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book is a defence of Modernism against its defenders. In readings of modern design, film, pop and especially architecture, it attempts to reclaim a revolutionary modernism against its absorption into the heritage industry and the aesthetics of the luxury flat. Militant Modernism features new readings of some familiar names Bertolt Brecht, Le Corbusier, et al. but more on the lesser-known, quotidian modernists of the twentieth century. These chapters range from a study of British industrial and brutalist aesthetics to Russian Constructivism in architecture, the Sexpol of Wilhelm Reich in film and design, and the alienation effects of Brecht and Hanns Eisler on record and screen all arguing for a modernism of everyday life, immersed in questions of socialism, sexual politics, and technology.
Owen Hatherley is a writer on political aesthetics, and regular contributor to The Guardian, Icon, Building Design and the BBC. He blogs at Sit Down Man, You're a Bloody Tragedy - nastybrutalistandshort.blogspot.com. He lives in London, UK.
