Owen Hatherley
Owen Hatherley is an English writer who publishes regularly on architecture, culture and politics for Architectural Review, Dezeen, The Guardian, and London Review of Books. He is the author of ten books, including Militant Modernism (Zer0, 2009), A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (Verso, 2010), Landscapes of Communism (Penguin, 2015) and The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space (Repeater, 2018). Between 2006 and 2010 he wrote the blog Sit Down Man, You’re a Bloody Tragedy. He is the culture editor of Tribune.
All essays by Owen Hatherley
24 Hour Theory People: Part 3
‘Fruitful misunderstandings’ strikes me as a good way to think about the blogosphere — and, actually, as a good way of describing what interesting criticism does, in so far as you never really ‘understand’ a work you’re responding to in any transparent, straightforward sense.
24 Hour Theory People: Part 2
For me, the easiest way to demonstrate the uniqueness of the blog medium is to think about why the k-punk book instantly and overwhelmingly prompts that question of its migration across media, a question which would not even arise for an anthology of newspaper or journal articles.
24 Hour Theory People: Mark Fisher and the blogosphere
There’s been a lot written already about the work of the late English writer, blogger and cultural theorist Mark Fisher, who died in 2017. Last year, a substantial anthology of Mark’s blog writing — together with interviews, reviews, and an unfinished manuscript fragment — was published as k-punk (Repeater Books), which was also the name of his highly influential blog.