Fear of Forums

Two forum discussions of David Stubbs' Fear of Music - at When Saturday Comes and a more argumentative Dissensus.

Viva Southampton City Council Architects Dept

Icon reviews Militant Modernism - a 'sparky, polemical and ferociously learned book'. And from a couple of weeks ago, PD Smith's review in the Guardian.

In a similar vein: Owen Hatherley defends blogs, against a slagging of the blog-becomes-book format from Stephen Howe - which then received a surprisingly sympathetic response.

zer0 twitter

Zer0 is now twittering here...

Introducing

A long extract from the introduction to Militant Modernism, in this week's Building Design.

Something inherently distressing

David Stubbs on Radio 4's Today programme, selecting pieces of 'distressing' abstract music that go alongside 'decorative' abstract art.

'In a school of one'

Jonathan Meades reviews Militant Modernism.

Evental Site

Mister Trippy, aka Stewart Home, on the Zero Books Launch, and a note from Infinite Thought, rightly describing it as the literary event of this, or indeed any other, season.