LEADER 02717nam 22004693 450 001 9910725065403321 005 20231110234325.0 010 $a1-912685-97-3 035 $a(CKB)4900000001450313 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6915695 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6915695 035 $a(OCoLC)1305844611 035 $a(NjHacI)994900000001450313 035 $a(EXLCZ)994900000001450313 100 $a20220411d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWorld's End 210 1$aCambridge :$cGoldsmiths, University London,$d2022. 210 4$dİ2022. 215 $a1 online resource (166 pages) 225 1 $aSpatial Politics 311 $a1-913380-00-9 330 8 $aCharlie Gere's account of growing up in the World's End area of West London during the Cold War combines local history, cultural history, memoir, and a strong sense of the apocalyptic. Once a rundown part of Chelsea at the wrong end of the King's Road, the World's End has long been a place for bohemian writers and artists, including Turner, Whistler, Beckett, Bacon, and Bacon's muse Henrietta Moraes, all of whom evinced an appropriate apocalyptic sensibility. After World War II, in which the area suffered severe bombing, it became a center of the counterculture that emerged from what Jeff Nuttall called ?Bomb Culture,? formed by the threat of nuclear annihilation.0The famous boutique Granny Takes a Trip opened there in 1966, joined later on by Hung On You, Puss Weber's Flying Dragon Tea Room, and the commune Gandalf's Garden. The area also featured trepanning aristocrats and pet lions, among other eccentricities. In the 1970s, the World's End was the center of punk rock. Gere's parents arrived as part of a wave of gentrification, and Gere, born and brought up there, witnessed its social and cultural evolution. As an adolescent, he was traumatized by the prospect of nuclear war. He has lived long enough to see the World's End now bearing the marks of out-of-control neoliberalism and its grotesque accompanying inequality. But this too shall pass as worlds end. 410 0$aSpatial Politics 606 $aManners and customs$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01007815 607 $aWorlds End (London, England)$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aWorlds End (London, England)$xSocial life and customs 608 $aHistory.$2fast 615 7$aManners and customs. 676 $a942.1340485092 700 $aGere$b Charlie$01359824 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910725065403321 996 $aWorld's End$93374941 997 $aUNINA