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Visions of a Digital Nation
Market and Monopoly in British Telecommunications
ISBN: 9780262546294
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 6, 2024
Why the privatization of British Telecom signaled a pivotal moment in the rise of neoliberalism, and how it was shaped by the longer development and digitalization of Britain's telecommunications infrastructure.
The City in the City
Architecture and Change in London's Financial District
ISBN: 9780262048415
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 19, 2023
An exploration of the dramatic transformation of London's financial district after 1945, viewed at four spatial scales: city, street, facade, interior.
City of the Beast
The London of Aleister Crowley
ISBN: 9781913689322
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: August 16, 2022
A work that combines biography and pyschogeography to trace Aleister Crowley's life in London.
London Couture and the Making of a Fashion Centre
London Couture and the Making of a Fashion Centre
ISBN: 9780262046572
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 12, 2022
How design collaboration, networks, and narratives contributed to the establishment of a recognized English couture industry in the 1930s and 1940s.
Passport to Peckham
Culture and Creativity in a London Village
ISBN: 9781913380069
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
Pub Date: April 5, 2022
An entertaining and engaging social and cultural history of the London community of Peckham that offers lessons in urban living.
World's End
ISBN: 9781913380007
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
Pub Date: March 29, 2022
A memoir and cultural history of World's End, a West London area once home to bohemian artists and punk rock and now an outpost of neoliberalism.
Muse, Odalisque, Handmaiden
A Girl's Life in the Incredible String Band
ISBN: 9781907222672
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: February 23, 2021
A memoir by a member of the Incredible String Band that charts a journey from hippie utopia to post-Woodstock implosion.
Hawkwind: Days of the Underground
Hawkwind: Days of the Underground
Radical Escapism in the Age of Paranoia
ISBN: 9781907222849
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: October 13, 2020
An account of the English rock band Hawkwind shows them to be one of the most innovative and culturally significant bands of the 1970s.
Bass, Mids, Tops
An Oral History of Sound System Culture
ISBN: 9781907222771
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: March 3, 2020
An oral history of the UK's soundsystem culture, featuring interviews with Dubmaster Dennis Bovell, Skream, Youth, Norman Jay MBE, Adrian Sherwood, Mala, and others.
Divine Rascal
On the Trail of LSD's Cosmic Courier, Michael Hollingshead
ISBN: 9781907222788
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: November 5, 2019
A biography of a key figure in psychedelic history: the man who turned Timothy Leary on to LSD.
Visions of a Digital Nation
Market and Monopoly in British Telecommunications
ISBN: 9780262546294
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 6, 2024
The City in the City
Architecture and Change in London's Financial District
ISBN: 9780262048415
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 19, 2023
City of the Beast
The London of Aleister Crowley
ISBN: 9781913689322
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: August 16, 2022
London Couture and the Making of a Fashion Centre
London Couture and the Making of a Fashion Centre
ISBN: 9780262046572
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 12, 2022
Passport to Peckham
Culture and Creativity in a London Village
ISBN: 9781913380069
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
Pub Date: April 5, 2022
World's End
ISBN: 9781913380007
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
Pub Date: March 29, 2022
Muse, Odalisque, Handmaiden
A Girl's Life in the Incredible String Band
ISBN: 9781907222672
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: February 23, 2021
Hawkwind: Days of the Underground
Hawkwind: Days of the Underground
Radical Escapism in the Age of Paranoia
ISBN: 9781907222849
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: October 13, 2020
Bass, Mids, Tops
An Oral History of Sound System Culture
ISBN: 9781907222771
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: March 3, 2020
Divine Rascal
On the Trail of LSD's Cosmic Courier, Michael Hollingshead
ISBN: 9781907222788
Publisher: Strange Attractor Press
Pub Date: November 5, 2019