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  • Update, 1/9: Owen Hatherley: "My occasional contention about British pop - that only in the late 70s did it catch up with the formal extremism and occlusion of human warmth that the country's architects achieved in the late 50s - is supported by how seemingly everyone with something interesting to say in pop from around 1977-83 inhabited an East Berlin of the mind, barricading themselves into a synthesized plattenbau."

    GreenCine Daily: Bowie @ 60. 2007

  • Owen Hatherley: "My occasional contention about British pop - that only in the late 70s did it catch up with the formal extremism and occlusion of human warmth that the country's architects achieved in the late 50s - is supported by how seemingly everyone with something interesting to say in pop from around 1977-83 inhabited an East Berlin of the mind, barricading themselves into a synthesized plattenbau."

    GreenCine Daily 2009

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