Nicholas Dunn-McAfee @PreRaphs

Literary critic, art historian, Anglo-Irish idler • Postdoctoral Fellow, @PaulMellonCentr • Poetry, Victorian painting, form, &c. Joined January 2012

Tweets

118
Followers

638
Following

443
Likes

3K

Samuel Hughes @SCP_Hughes

6 months ago

Hackney Planning Dept has recommended rejection of Shoreditch Works, a huge, splendid, mostly commercial development near Liverpool Street Station. As I understand it, their rationale is: 1. They accept it will create space for over 4000 jobs, which they acknowledge to be a good thing; 2. They are however unhappy that it will not create more homes; 3. They note the scheme's financial viability is borderline (due to the deteriorating conditions for development in London generally); 4. They are unhappy with the height of the buildings and their impact on the character of the South Shoreditch conservation area. Taken together, these lead me to wonder – what scheme actually would be acceptable to the officers? - The developers could meet the requirement for more homes through adding height, but that would put them even more in danger of the conservation policies; - They could add homes by subtracting commercial floorspace, but that would make it unviable (commercial floorspace is much more valuable than residential in the City and its environs); - Meanwhile they could reduce the supposed impact on the conservation area by shrinking the development, but that too would undermine viability. This leads me to wonder if there is *any* development that Hackney's officers would accept here, despite the Council classing it as an 'opportunity site that is considered of great importance in Shoreditch and Hackney'.

34 75 601 108K 64

View Details

Hopkins Press @JHUPress

6 months ago

Read "Fail Better: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Form, and the Aesthetics of Successful Failure" by Nicholas Dunn-McAfee, from the Winter 2024 issue of Victorian Poetry It's free to read, #S2O #OpenAccess via @ProjectMUSE muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

Nicholas Dunn-McAfee @PreRaphs

8 months ago

A new article by me in Victorian Poetry, on a poem and painting that has fascinated and baffled me for years — Rossetti's Lady Lilith (1866-68, altered 1872-73)! 'Fail Better: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Form, and the Aesthetics of Successful Failure' muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

1 0 1 392 0

0 1 2 310 0

View Details

Samuel Hughes @SCP_Hughes

7 months ago

Apparently the Govt is planning a blanket permission for homes in walking distance of railway stations, as well as huge suburban densification. If this is for real, it is undeniably extremely radical, exploding the Govt's reputation for timidity and intellectual exhaustion.

YIMBY Alliance @yimbyalliance

7 months ago

NEW: Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook has just announced the BIGGEST EVER reforms to national policy to deliver more homes! Here are the five biggest: 🧵

38 167 784 486K 218

18 64 671 59K 54

View Details

Nicholas Dunn-McAfee @PreRaphs

8 months ago

@BenRamanauskas An excellent way to induce crippling despair and panic about our institutions is to remind yourself how popular it was re: the 'indicative votes' bunfight.

0 0 2 42 0

View Details

Nicholas Dunn-McAfee @PreRaphs

8 months ago

This was written when I was Visiting Research for The Rossettis exhibition at @delartmuseum, so thank you again for having me. My thinking here owes much to the indomitable Sophie Lynford and our endless conversations about the double works of art while I was in residence.

0 0 0 28 0

View Details

Nicholas Dunn-McAfee @PreRaphs

8 months ago

1 0 1 392 0

View Details

Bovril-Gesellschaft @BovrilG

8 months ago

I have a friend in Paris Late twenties Essentially limitless funds Lavishly-decorated mansion near Fonteney Library of priceless early Medieval Latin texts Garden of poisonous exotic flowers Jewel-encrusted tortoise But he can’t get a date Is the dating scene in France cooked?

42 10 438 63K 38

View Details

Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin

8 months ago

American writers fighting: we both went to Harvard but my dad was merely a public interest lawyer while yours was a CAA agent, so I’m basically working class British writers fighting:

Niall Ferguson @nfergus

8 months ago

@DalrympleWill Willy, my grandfather served in India and Burma during the war, while yours was being baronet of Bass Rock. Or did I miss a heroic episode in Hamilton-Dalrymple history (aside from their ignoble part in the Glencoe Massacre)? You'll be explaining to me what "tiffin" means next.

41 38 1K 1.2M 264

36 482 6K 517K 876

View Details

George McGowan @GjMcGowan

8 months ago

“You’d best start believing in Laffer Curves Ms Reeves. You’re in one!”

Dan Neidle @DanNeidle

8 months ago

NEW - we've data showing huge numbers of people reducing their income to avoid high marginal income tax rates. Not just at the £100k point (as previously reported). But at the £50k point:

234 358 2K 712K 457

9 152 3K 207K 229

View Details

Riley @raaleh

10 months ago

Okay when Sainsbury’s claims a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence, I’ll cut up my nectar card

Tom Harris 🇬🇧 @MrTCHarris

10 months ago

I've always found it odd that people who oppose government ID cards are usually more than happy to own a loyalty card that allows private companies to keep track of tons of personal information about you.

5K 371 3K 2.2M 97

18 318 4K 82K 68

View Details

Craig @R0SBIF

10 months ago

Born too late to trade on the LIFFE, born just in time for an email reminder that you have not completed your mandatory e-learning 😢

Lost London @Lost___London

10 months ago

London in the 1990s

14 39 713 277K 93

7 60 1K 65K 88

View Details

James Marriott @j_amesmarriott

10 months ago

My magnum opus - a unified field theory of why the post-literate society is a catastrophe for civilisation as we know it api.omarshehata.me/substack-proxy…

108 328 2K 529K 1K

View Details

Aris Roussinos @arisroussinos

10 months ago

Why is there such a strong overlap between people exulting in political violence and people who would be too anxious to make a phone call?

70 203 2K 270K 138

View Details

matt @mattybtweets69

a year ago

Hey, there’s a hip new wine bar in New York City. It’s open on Sundays, comes with “small bites,” and you just might learn a thing or two there. Sound interesting? It’s called church…

8 846 20K 499K 716

View Details

Nicholas Dunn-McAfee @PreRaphs

a year ago

@VRoskams On very short list of things that Ruskin would appreciate about our current age, “the slow meticulous labour of plasticine animation” does make the cut.

0 0 1 9 0

View Details

Nicholas Dunn-McAfee @PreRaphs

a year ago

@VRoskams Please tell me this talk is the BAVS secret keynote?!

1 0 1 14 0

View Details

Tom Whyman @HealthUntoDeath

a year ago

BRAGG: So tell me about the Reformation then. Why was this such a momentous event? ACADEMIC: Well in many ways it would be wrong to talk of 'the' Reformation, but rather, a series of different, perhaps related- BRAGG: Don't fuck me around pervert

Becky Paton @rpaton11

a year ago

I'm getting back into In Our Time in a big way, and Bragg's sheer contempt for academics is inspirational

26 31 752 190K 76

4 51 695 51K 67

View Details

Hiroshi Suzuki @AmbJapanUK

a year ago

Happy St Patrick’s Day! I made matcha latte with a shamrock! 🍵☘️

1K 14K 259K 22.9M 8K

View Details

John Attridge @John_Attridge

a year ago

Classic literature is difficult because the knowledge it contains is powerful and dangerous and should only be accessible to an elite clerical class. Hope this helps