Archive - Utopia Deferred

Pop after history

Sep 24, 2023 •

August 2023

Withered houseplants, shopping bags

What was "everyday life"?

Aug 30, 2023 •

June 2023

All that heaven allows

Fassbinder after modernity

Jun 24, 2023 •

A spring that never comes

Landscape and climate change

Jun 2, 2023 •

December 2022

Paper architecture

Hours out of a library

Dec 10, 2022 •

September 2022

The last picture show

I had perhaps the least impressive introduction to Godard you can have: having read a piece on a now-long-gone site where an ordinary internet user just…

Sep 28, 2022 •

June 2022

Deserve has nothing to do with it

Kelvin Flats, Hillsborough, 1987, via Tower Block project Is a socialist luxury possible? The fact that this question keeps coming up on social media…

Jun 4, 2022 •

May 2022

Shadows on the sun

I was going to write a friend a letter. It would have started like this: Dear F., You won’t read this, but I remembered the other day talking about the…

May 10, 2022 •

December 2021

New York London Paris Munich

The below is adapted from a review of Agnés Gayraud’s Dialectic Of Pop, originally written for Review 31. Dialectic Of Pop is available from its…

Dec 31, 2021 •

November 2021

Donda as late style

Nov 14, 2021 •

July 2021

Flowers of romance

Wong Kar-Wai’s Fallen Angels (1995) ends with a meet-cute, a motorcycle ride and a pop song. The Flying Pickets’ a capella cover of Yazoo’s ‘Only You…

Jul 12, 2021 •

June 2021

Faces on posters, too many choices

What was the mask?

Jun 13, 2021 •

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