About the Author

Owen Hatherleywrites regularly on aesthetics and politics for, among others, theArchitectural Review, theCalvert Journal,Dezeen, theGuardian,Jacobin, theLondon Review of BooksandNew Humanist. He is the author of several books, most recentlyLandscapes of Communism(Penguin, 2015),The Ministry of Nostalgia(Verso, 2016) andThe Chaplin Machine(Pluto, 2016), the last of which is based on a PhD thesis accepted by Birkbeck College in 2011. A book on European cities,Trans-Europe Express, will be published in 2018.