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Listener questions for Owen Hatherley
🕑 Added 2025-06-20 10:50:14 +0000 UTCFollowing our recent episode on the Manic Street Preachers, Owen Hatherley will be returning to answer your questions. You may like to ask Owen something specifically on the Manics, pop culture more broadly, the recent Pulp reunion (Owen is the author of an excellent book on the group), or something on Owen's writings on aesthetics and architecture. You might also like to ask something related to one of our previous episodes on Japanese pop music of the 1980s, Scott Walker, Morrissey (with Kojo Koram), or the documentaries of Adam Curtis (with Juliet Jacques and Alberto Toscano).
As always please either post your question below the line here, or email politicstheoryother@gmail.com with 'Owen Hatherley question' in the subject line. Thanks as ever for your support for the show!
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Hand ov Doom
The podcast reminded me how prevalent anti Welsh humour was in the NME in the nineties. I'm wondering what you both think of the idea of 'acceptable' forms of working class identity, for example, the Northern English variety which was enthusiastically fetishised whether it was Oasis or Pulp versus what the Manics endured?
Killian O' Sullivan
A lot of Owen’s work over the years has charted the changing nature of British architecture, from the cheap New Labour postmodernism of Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain to the austere monumentalism of the Ministry of Nostalgia. Nearly a decade on from the latter book, I find it hard to see what has changed from the trends it described, in London at least. Could he comment on what he thinks the major trends in London architecture are today?
