Kino Fist Salvagepunk Special!
Kino Fist will be making a slight, last-minute return to tie in with the Historical Materialism conference. Due to mine and Nina's current workload may unfortunately lack a zine, but it will be in the salubrious environs of the

You Cannot Resist
My copy of Zero's Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson arrived in the post yesterday, and well, just a look at the contents should be enough to silence any doubters. My contribution focuses on the short film above, amongst other things. There will also be a launch for the equally brilliant Capitalist Realism and One-Dimensional Woman, details as follows: Wednesday, 02 December 2009, 18:30 - 21:00, Siobhan Davies Studio, 85 St George's Road SE1 6ER, London. RSVP to zerobooks@hotmail.com. I shall be t

Gross Stadt
Odd request. Does anyone reading this - I know there's at least some architectural academics and historians among you - know of a translation of Ben Noys-lookalike Ludwig Hilberseimer's famously terrifying, nihilistic, blank urban planning manual Grossstadtarchitektur? There is a copy in the British Library whic

What to be Done
The Chto Delat people are, as you may know, a very interesting lot indeed (cf my post from a while ago on one of their publications), and they will be in London presently. Details as follows

No-one likes it, we don't care
Brutalist architecture - loved by dead town planners, the deans of post-war universities, Sotonian men of letters, 1960s social engineers and fans of Hibernian F.C. See: this thread - '1960s architecture in Edinburgh...is good for the city'.