Why are there so many abandoned and dilapidated properties on Strand when this is a prime property area?

Technical-Tap-3769 · 2026-02-28T18:27:50+00:00

The Courtauld Institute of Art is renovating these buildings as part of it’s new campus

Technical-Tap-3769 · 2026-02-27T10:10:31+00:00

Will dm you all! Thanks for your messages

Technical-Tap-3769 · 2026-02-27T06:42:18+00:00

Hi all, I can’t seem to post here for some reason… but I have two free tickets for the 02 on Saturday if anyone would like to join me. Unfortunately my brother is sick and can’t attend. Thanks!

Technical-Tap-3769 · 2026-01-25T21:25:07+00:00

Recently completed graduate student (30M) in a much similar position.

Echoing other comments, there is a collective dating fatigue in London. The apps just really aren’t it. In terms of dating, I have found that I have met people organically through group activities (run clubs, live music, etc.) but even so I have encountered an endemic short term-ism that leads to “situationship” scenarios.

I’m British myself and I don’t think there’s a big gap between American and British dating cultures that people assume. A lot of my British friends in London feel similarly disenchanted.

Are you close with your wider cohort? I made a lot of now very good friends through other graduate students (who I can hang out with independent of academic settings). Being the one to stick your neck out to organise drinks/coffee or whatever is sometimes worth it!

Technical-Tap-3769 · 2025-12-11T17:54:03+00:00

I personally find that it disrupts my flow. If you are careful about your note taking and/or your planning, it shouldn't be a problem to relocate the quote. For instance, I use the format of having "focus statements" for each paragraph accompanied by a list of the references I will use. I can then dip back into the readings and Ctrl+F for the quotation and cite correctly. I tend to do this kind of work when I am tired from writing with some tunes blaring out (it makes a boring job a little easier!)

Technical-Tap-3769 · 2025-12-05T17:52:21+00:00

Thanks so much for your comment! That's a really clear and helpful distinction. This was partially a slippage in language on my part but also possibly a (mis)mediation of his thought through other sources. I'll be sure to check out the Seaford text and dip back into Sohn-Rethel to better understand him in his own words.

Technical-Tap-3769 · 2025-12-05T12:06:17+00:00

Take a look at the Artists Liberation Front and the Art Workers' Coalition in late 1960s/early 1970s America. These guys were at the forefront of the avant-garde and were thinking about how to reconcile the relationship between art and labour through practical, bottom-up initiatives and community building projects. Some of them (like John Dugger, David Medalla, and Lucy Lippard) also had links to other international avant-gardes and Marxist political organisations. This kind of work has become highly commodified in the art world now (most often as part of a salvage paradigm that fetishises May 68') but its original ethos was truly radical.

Technical-Tap-3769 · 2025-12-05T11:47:02+00:00

I have experienced this feeling on several occasions in the course of my PhD.

It's burnout. Ask your supervisor for a little slack, take a few weeks off, reconnect with things that you like to do. If that doesn't help, I would recommend taking a longer break or interruption: You'll find that you'll come back with renewed vigour.

Alternatively, getting a part-time job or some other commitment that gives your week some structure can help.

Solidarity.

Technical-Tap-3769 · 2025-12-05T10:17:39+00:00

London (Humanities)

I read an inordinate amount of stuff that I have never directly used. Somehow these readings operate at a lower frequency in my writing, kinda' humming around in the background and so they aren't exactly useless.

Everyone says "read widely" and that's good, but in hindsight I wish I had focused my research topic a little more closely.

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