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6 August 2022

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Artificial Islands: Adventures in the Dominions Owen Hatherley

Repeater Books, pp.335, 12.99

Here’s a thing. A disturbing book about disturbing cities. And it’s full of loaded questions. Like Hezbollah, the publisher uses the silhouette of an automatic weapon as its logo. This is a trigger warning.

Jonathan Swift wrote:

All poets and philosphers who find
Some favourite system to their minds
In every way to make it fit
Will force all Nature to submit.


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