"Militant Modernism" argues for a Modernism of everyday life, immersed in questi
ons of socialism, sexual politics and technology. It features new readings of so
me familiar names - Bertolt Brecht, Le Corbusier, Vladimir Mayakovsky - and much
more on the lesser known, quotidian modernists of the 20th century. The chapter
s range from a study of industrial and brutalist aesthetics in Britain, Russian
Constructivism in architecture, the Sexpol of Wilhelm Reich in film and design,
and the alienation effects of Brecht and Hanns Eisler on record and on screen.
