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Print June 22, 2017 9 comments

Architecture & Morality:
The Fall of Grenfell Tower

Christopher Pankhurst

1,661 words

Czech version here

Facts are important, but stories are more important. Facts are isolated data that can easily be forgotten, but stories coalesce to form the infrastructure of our worldview. The stories that we learn inform our worldview and our worldview filters the stories that we hear in an ongoing feedback loop. This is why it’s so important to control the narrative.

When Grenfell Tower went up in flames on the morning of 14th June, the narrative practically wrote itself. Here we had the poorest people in the country living next door to the wealthiest. The first victim to be named was a Syrian refugee, Mohammed Alhajali. Two miles away, the penthouse flat in the tower block at 3 Merchant Square was recently sold for £7.5 million, perhaps by one of those Russian oligarchs, semi-mythical creatures who buy up reams of expensive property in the desirable areas of London seemingly on a whim. A tale of two cities, a tale of two immigrants.

As the story continues, the residents of 3 Merchant Square are protected by smoke detectors and sprinklers in each flat whilst the poor residents in Grenfell Tower have no sprinklers and apparently a few faulty smoke detectors. Worse still, Grenfell Tower had only last year had a refurbishment which was designed to improve its appearance to outside observers (i.e. to the purchasers of those luxury flats). As we now know, having all become leading experts in the cladding of tall buildings in the last week, the insulating fascia built on the exterior of Grenfell Tower seems to have acted as a chimney, spreading the fire all around the building.

So the story is one of poor, immigrant favela dwellers whose safety doesn’t matter at all but whose ugly building must be dangerously disguised so as not to upset the delicate sensibilities of neighbouring millionaires. This narrative was immediately and effortlessly translated into one of murderous, racist Tory scum ethnically cleansing Kensington and Chelsea. The former narrative has some merit but the way that it so easily slips into the latter interpretation is due to the fact that the assumptions of the Left have become hegemonic throughout the British political system. The poor are shat upon by Left-wing governments and by Right-wing governments but the shit only seems to stick from the Right. The truth is that all the main political parties in Britain are neoliberal Social Democrats but the Left has been able to ideologically weaponize Grenfell Tower because it has retained its mythology of championing the underdog and returning power to the people. This is the source of Corbyn’s success. The Right maintains its belief in neoliberalism but salves its conscience with social democracy. Although its heart is more with neoliberalism it no longer has Thatcher’s capacity for telling the right stories about opportunity and independence. It essentially agrees with the left that neoliberalism leads to embarrassing juxtapositions like those revealed in North Kensington. It is only on the left of British politics that a positive vision is being offered to people and it is starting to create its own feedback loops.

Grenfell Tower was built in 1974 in the Brutalist style. The term “Brutalist” comes from the French béton brut, raw concrete, and it denotes an architectural style characterised by industrial, prefabricated construction techniques, and a modernist aesthetic that delights in rough, angular edges and bold linear and curvilinear shapes. It’s fair to say that the Brutalist style never endeared itself to popular consciousness. But then that was never really a particularly high priority. The main driver behind the post-war housing boom in Britain was the huge amount of homes that had been destroyed during the war. Successive post-war governments regarded it as their duty to build sufficient numbers of homes to make up for that shortfall. It’s easy with hindsight to see the creation of high rise social housing as an incubator for crime and social breakdown but it’s important to remember that these projects were approached with an idealistic attitude at the time. The futuristic aesthetic of modernist architecture in general and Brutalism in particular was wedded to a notion of social progress and technological innovation, and the buildings were often enthusiastically embraced by those working class Britons who were to be homed in them. To some extent, the earlier garden town and model village utopian ideals were in the background of the post-war social housing projects.

During the last decade, Brutalism has started to come back in fashion with many regional campaigns underway to save important examples of post-war architecture. Ernő Goldfinger’s Balfron Tower has now become a desirable residence attracting the young and affluent gentrifiers whose presence feeds in to the narrative of social cleansing. So there is a certain irony to the fact that it was felt necessary to clad the exterior of Grenfell Tower in order to hide its Brutalist façade. In fact, the cladding fixed onto Grenfell Tower gave it the appearance of a building designed in the International style, all glass and steel, which is so ubiquitous in cities around the world. The irony, of course, inheres in the fact that the International style is itself a rather outmoded architectural form and Brutalism is achingly de rigueur amongst the young style setters. In addition to this, it is noteworthy that during the course of the development of modernist architecture the concrete exterior, rough and weathered, was the face of social housing whilst the flat, sleek glass façade was the face of commerce and business. It is as though the intention behind the exterior cladding was to disguise the fact that this building was a living space, to elide the presence of its inhabitants, a desire that found too intense a fulfilment in the inferno of June 14th.

The story here again writes itself. The forces of neoliberalism, having been unleashed, are ruthlessly consuming all impediments to the free flow of global capital. The sooner all social housing is burned to the ground (enabling the realisation of the true land value) the better. And this story maps itself onto the Left/Right divide in a clear fashion. But the inverse side of this story, that of the people who are dragged around the world in the wake of global capital, does not seem readily prefabricated to fit easily onto the political divide. But it is precisely in this asymmetry between the global movement of capital and the global movement of people that we should be asserting a new perspective on the political system because the global flow of capital and the global flow of people are at once the same phenomenon expressed at different levels. To pretend, as the left does, that it is possible to oppose capitalism whilst supporting the free movement of people is disingenuous. As I said earlier, they are only able to pull this off because they still have a founding mythology which can be utilised in a way that galvanizes support. The fact that it is disingenuous, that it is a faux solution that would actually exacerbate the problems it claims to solve, is secondary to its alluring power as a story.

It seems to me that any anti-capitalist movement or tendency should be very careful about the claims it makes for itself. Global capitalism reminds me very much of the prophesied AI singularity, the moment in history when machines will surpass human power and take over the planet. Is this not what capital has already done? Capital is already way beyond the level of metaphor; it really is a self-organising machine feeding off the human prey. Anyone who seeks to mitigate the socially disruptive effects of capitalism should really focus on those areas that are still within our control. Regaining control of the borders is one such area and this is why Brexit is such an important issue.

The affluent hipsters who apply a type of historical revisionism to Brutalist architecture are certainly right about one thing: the parochial, even when ugly, is preferable to internationalist blandness. Securing the borders won’t halt the flow of capital (nor should it) but it may give us an opportunity to create our own parochial feedback loop within the greater flow. Doing so will necessitate a rethinking of what constitutes a citizen and may even lead to an immigration policy that isn’t predicated on suicidal insanity.

Returning to Grenfell Tower, this type of social housing was initially a project of the Labour Party although it was also pursued by the Conservatives. It was a necessary solution to the problem of housing shortage after the war. There is a problem with affordable housing in Britain today and at the recent election the Labour Party pledged to build half a million more council houses, even though an obvious and more environmentally friendly solution would be to dampen demand with restrictions on the number of people allowed to enter the country. The dangers of this “more capital/more immigration” model are not just confined to the problems of overcrowding and the costs of ongoing maintenance, but also spill out into more sinister social developments such as Rochdale and the promotion of Jihad.

The correct response to Grenfell Tower would be to pursue a hard Brexit so that the population can be allowed to stabilize and the necessity of building large numbers of new homes can be stymied. Resources might then be applied (and applied more generously) to those who are already living in social or private rental accommodation. This would be a positive and achievable goal for the Right. It would though require the Right to make an us/them distinction, something about which it has proven itself spineless in the past. Nonetheless, the elite’s misstep with the Brexit referendum does give us the opportunity to make the case for our brand of politics: a politics of social cohesion and stability predicated on strong borders. It is a positive political message that can create a narrative of genuine morality rather than the present narrative of self-righteous moralism.

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  1. nineofclubs says:
    June 23, 2017 at 1:59 am

    Make no mistake. Neo-liberalism is a state of consensus between the globalist ‘left’ and ‘right’.

    The left gets it’s kumbaya social agenda and the right gets to screw native workers. All good for global capitalism.

    Margaret Thatcher was really just the flip-side of Corbyn. A somewhat more radical version of the same false ‘left/right’ dichotomy that defines politics today. And by no means anything to celebrate.

    The key difference between neo-liberalism and us is that we are national, not globalist in outlook. Personally I’d like to see an ethno-state operating an economy far more socialist than today. But I acknowledge that the priority is establishing an ethno-state in the first place.

    Once we establish nation states with a truly ethno-national focus, we can debate the alleged merits of the free market and so forth.

    In the interim, we need to concentrate on forming a new nationalist consensus to oppose the globalist neo-lib hegemony. A number of writers for the alt-right – in my opinion – become tangled up in their old-right economic baggage, alienating potential support from workers.

    Also – you may be aware of Gottfreid Feder’s ideas about the garden city model of development. Aside from his excellent writings on usury and money creation, this is an aspect of his work worthy of further consideration by nationalists.

    .

    1. Peter J says:
      June 23, 2017 at 5:53 pm

      I disagree that Thatcher was a “neo-liberal”. She was a patriot who wanted to rebuild her country by marginalising Marxists and expanding the economy. If you want globalist “UK Plc” neo-liberalism you could look for “Tony”…

      1. nineofclubs says:
        June 26, 2017 at 2:55 am

        Thanks for your response, Peter. Of course you are entitled to your opinion and I accept that Margaret Thatcher promoted herself as something of a British patriot.

        In the late 70’s she was wringing her hands on TV saying that ‘people were concerned’ about immigration. At the same time, she was publicly hoping that she could win over support from the National Front, which she actually did in spades in the 1979 general election.

        Support for the NF collapsed, but Thatcher did nothing to reduce immigration to the UK. Indeed, during the early 80’s, net migration to the UK spiked. Much of this immigration was from the Caribbean and the sub continent, laying the foundations for for future Tory and Labour immigration programs.

        Her efforts at marginalising Marxists seem to have mainly been around using state power to beat up Arthur Scargill and the miners, leaving vast swaths of the North economic wastelands thereafter. All for the benefit of international capitalism.

        Yes, she did commit troops to the the defence of the English Falkland Islanders; a move that could be construed as patriotic.

        But on the whole, her ‘no such thing as society’ world view led her to favour international capital over her own people time and again.

        She was classically ‘right wing’ but also globalist – if not in rhetoric then at least in terms of what she delivered.

        The future will, hopefully, see nationalists unite against both ‘left’ and ‘right’ versions of cosmopolitan globalism. It is, for now, an existential threat to our existence that eclipses our differences on economic questions.

        .

        1. Peter J says:
          July 6, 2017 at 4:22 pm

          Well, much as I detest “neo-liberalism” I would not want to associate it with Thatcher or to classical liberals such as Gladstone.

          A few comments. Thatcher bravely and presciently fought against the EU and its globalist totalitarianism. Howe and Heseltine deposed her and her most famous speech after office was her Bruges speech:
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_XsSnivgNg
          And see also her very revealing speech below:
          https://www.hudson.org/research/1266-resisting-the-utopian-impulse

          To say that Thatcher was not a patriot or a conservative is, in my view, evidently false even if we are seeing the disastrous effect of the supercharged American corporate arrogance and imperialism that she inadvertently enabled.

    2. Proofreader says:
      June 23, 2017 at 10:15 pm

      The clashes between mainstream political parties of the left and right often remind me of the scene at the very end of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, when the farm animals peer through the farmhouse windows at a meeting between the pigs and the humans:

      “But as the animals outside gazed at the scene, it seemed to them that some strange thing was happening. What was it that had altered in the faces of the pigs? Clover’s old dim eyes flitted from one face to another. Some of them had five chins, some had four, some had three. But what was it that seemed to be melting and changing? Then, the applause having come to an end, the company took up their cards and continued the game that had been interrupted, and the animals crept silently away.

      “But they had not gone twenty yards when they stopped short. An uproar of voices was coming from the farmhouse. They rushed back and looked through the window again. Yes, a violent quarrel was in progress. There were shoutings, bangings on the table, sharp suspicious glances, furious denials. The source of the trouble appeared to be that Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington had each played an ace of spades simultaneously.

      “Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

      1. nineofclubs says:
        June 26, 2017 at 4:01 am

        For sure. The current Punch ‘n Judy show presented in the MSN as ‘politics’ is actually just the two (not very different) ends of the globalist neo-liberal consensus debating their differences.

        Much as Orwell had feared, except that the socialism he worried about when imperial communism was still a threat has now been replaced by a soft cosmopolitan ideology loved equally by Coca Cola Amatil and cultural Marxists.

        Nationalists should rise above it all, keeping in mind that our primary threat is not the historic left or right, but the global variants of both.

        .

  2. Gladiator says:
    June 23, 2017 at 1:22 pm

    The irony of this tragedy the rich area, I once walked down to Harrods which is owned now by rich Qataris, fellow Muslim brethren were throwing their children and women with their burning hi jabs, from burning windows!

    Where is social justice among likes even if no one belonged either to the Left or Right but fate prevailed rather social class and wealth? Grenfell Tower is the catalyst of modern day UK. Down and out broke, spiritually, socially and culturally. Perhaps this is only the beginning of the end social cleansing through the ballot.

  3. Peter J says:
    June 23, 2017 at 5:54 pm

    Very good analysis by the way!

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