The Ministry of Nostalgia

by Owen Hatherley

Book Overview

Why should we have to "Keep Calm and Carry On"? 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 "make do and mend" 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784780758
• ISBN13: 9781784780753
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.3"