Fans of the new Star Wars film, The Force Awakens have been busily besmirching the internet with their inconsequential theories about what the series may have in store but did…
Written by Daniel O’Donnell-Smith
I’m a 4th year PhD candidate at Birkbeck College in the School of Arts. My PhD is practice-led and explores contemporary poetry, digital arts & culture and nineteenth century occultism. My practice includes music, poetry, video art and making things. I’m one-half of VHS Pop/electronic mistake-makers Moscow Youth Cult and I draw a webtoon called 3 Frame Movies which is hosted at http://tapastic.com/series/3-Frame-Movies. This blog intends to be helpful but also mindlessly anecdotal and populated with minutiae, irrelevancies and pygmies of triviality.
You Don’t Use The Library
Libraries are great aren’t they? Clean, quiet spaces with excellent facilities: the toilets in the larger ones can be handsome and some have the luxury of an attached café or…
You Have Office Envy
…Or, ‘Wherever You lay Your Phone (That’s Your Home)’. Do you have an office? I do not*. Annoyingly the PhD student who asks you this question invariably has their…
You Are A Fraud
The game’s up, you’ve been caught. Thought no one would notice? Well you’ve been spotted in the reading groups, shifting in your seat and not joining in; silent at the…
You Think You Work
When I first started my PhD I was lost. This didn’t quite compute because everything leading up to that point had come together so well. Having relocated to London I…