Simon ElmerSimon Elmer lives between London and Hong Kong. In 2002 he received his PhD in the History and Theory of Art from University College London, and he has taught at the universities of London, Manchester, Reading and Michigan. In 2015 he co-founded Archtects for Social Housing, for which he is Head of Research. His books include Case Studies in Estate Regeneration: Demolition, Privatisation and Social Cleansing (2025); The Housing Crisis: Finance, Legislation, Policy, Resistance (2025); Architecture is Always Political: A Communist History (2024); The Great Replacement: Conspiracy Theory or Immigration Policy? (2024); The Great Reset: Biopolitics for Stakeholder Capitalism (2023); The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State (2022); two volumes of collected articles on the UK biosecurity state, Virtue and Terror (2022) and The New Normal (2022); and with Geraldine Dening, Saving St. Raphael's Estate: The Alternative to Demolition (2022), For a Socialist Architecture: Under Capitalism (2021); and Central Hill: A Case Study in Estate Regeneration (2018). Culture Wars: Art, Politics and Capitalism is the fourth volume in the series titled the ASH Papers, which collects in book form the most important articles from the ASH website. Read More Read Less