John Medhurst’s book, published by Repeater Books, combines photographic documentation with critical analysis of North London’s working-class communities and council estates. Compiled around the Covid lockdowns, the project engages with socialist critique and urban geography through the lens of Owen Hatherley’s architectural and cultural commentary. The work situates itself within a tradition of leftist cultural criticism examining post-industrial Britain, class consciousness, and the material conditions of everyday life in urban spaces—concerns central to post-punk and dark alternative intellectual discourse around deindustrialization, precarity, and social alienation.
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