I used to live next to Borough market and saw it devolve from a genuine working class market to a chi-chi hive. The old pie and mash shop was replaced by offices as were all the other old school business. It was like watching someone you love being embalmed whilst still alive. I now live in Asia where the market tradition are still vivid and alive.
> This is because what appears to humanity as the history of capitalism is an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligent space that must assemble itself entirely from its enemy's resources.
I used to live next to Borough market and saw it devolve from a genuine working class market to a chi-chi hive. The old pie and mash shop was replaced by offices as were all the other old school business. It was like watching someone you love being embalmed whilst still alive. I now live in Asia where the market tradition are still vivid and alive.
I sometimes wonder if city life used to be more bustling, or if photographers just avoided taking pictures of places without many people.
The past feels so alive!
Much fewer / slower cars. Nowadays people have been pushed aside to make room for cars.
Most of the popular London markets are very alive these days. You can barely move in them some days. So I think it is the latter.
I love these old pictures of London. You can feel the life.
At the time London was the largest city in the world at the centre of the large emprie of all time.
No wonder Dracula was making a beeline for it.
I live in Spitalfields. I'm sometimes in awe of all the history here.
Ridley Road Market is not mentioned but worth a visit
Great picture! Those crowded streets were no doubt a pickpockets dream.
Billingsgate is amazing love getting fish there
(2024)
Most of the pictures are even older than that.
Beautiful images of Capitalism building itself.
what does that even mean?
Most likely a Nick Land ref:
> This is because what appears to humanity as the history of capitalism is an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligent space that must assemble itself entirely from its enemy's resources.