Let us condemn the heresy of workspaces in churches | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Walking through Camden Town in north London recently - a place whose countercultural relevance dwindled sometime between the Libertines' first and second albums - I came across a building labelled WORK.LIFE, plus the slogan, "Because life's too short".
It seemed to symbolise everything that the late cultural theorist Mark Fisher meant when he coined the phrase "boring dystopia". WORK.LIFE is one of those hubs for freelancers, or "digital nomads" - a handy phrase if that green juice cleanse isn't providing the quite the level of purging that your body desires. Don't flush yet, though, there's more: "Nestled in one of London's most iconic postcodes, there's plenty of creative spirit here as well as a punk-rock approach to business."
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