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at stake, it is claimed, was ‘an experience of the unknowable – or, at least, the discursively unknowable … a way of undergoing, a giving of self and a completion of thought.’ He quotes a fragment of Aristotle that distinguishes between two types of knowing, the didactic (or discursive) and the initiatory (Kerényi refers to […]

169 Reviews: Books Reviewed:Djurdja Bartlett, FashionEast: The Spectre That Haunted Socialism Jon Beasley-Murray Posthegemony: Political Theory and Latin AmericaRichard Immerman, Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul WolfowitzJacob Rogozinski, The Ego and the Flesh: An Introduction to EgoanalysisPaul Virilio, The Futurism of the Instant: Stop-EjectDave Eggers, ZeitounTurbulence, What Would It Mean to Win?Team Colours, Uses of a Whirlwind: Movement, Movements, and Contemporary Radical Currents in the United StatesThe Occupation Cookbook, or, the Model of the Occupation of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb

Reviews Well, the Ukraine girls really knock me out…Djurdja Bartlett, FashionEast: The Spectre That Haunted Socialism, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 2011. 300 pp., £25.95 hb., 978 0 26202 650 5. One of the more interesting recent Russian blockbusters, Valeriy Todorovskys 2008 Stilyagi, is a musical set in 1950s’ Moscow. The historical Stilyagi were the Soviet […]

Well, the Ukraine girls really knock me out…

Djurdja Bartlett, FashionEast: The Spectre That Haunted Socialism, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 2011. 300pp., £25.95 hb., 978 0 26202 650 5. Owen Hatherley One of the more interesting recent Russian blockbusters, Valeriy Todorovskys 2008 Stilyagi, is a musical set in 1950s’ Moscow. The historical Stilyagi were the Soviet Union’s beatniks, enthusiasts for modern jazz and […]

Lash out and cover up: Austerity nostalgia and ironic authoritarianism in recession Britain

Commentary Lash out and cover up Austerity nostalgia and ironic authoritarianism in recession Britain Owen hatherley Britain has reacted strangely to the crisis of neoliberalism. The country’s seemingly endemic nostalgia, particularly for the Second World War, has long been exploited by Thatcherites and Blairites; but its recent political use shows, in an especially acute form, […]