phil neel's hellworld is a comprehensive monograph on the state of our post-2020 capitalist world system across multiple continents. negation had a chance to sit down with phil neel and talk about the end of the world 👇

We're recruiting 2 PhD candidates in human geography here in Uppsala, one position focused on urban/housing issues and one in political ecology. Please spread the word/repost etc. Being a PhD student in Sweden is a good gig.

New article by Phil A. Neel examining the post-2020 political order, arguing that liberal myths about law, elections, and restraint function as counterinsurgency in an era of open state violence. illwill.com/lies

Vill gärna tipsa om senaste numret av tidningen Brand som handlar om tid tidningenbrand.se/brand/nummer...

Julen kom tidigt i år med Brands temanummer om tid och texter av bland andra @fredrikedin.bsky.social

slopworld

Transportpolitiska tomten kommer med tidiga gåvor👇

Väldigt sorgliga nyheter i natt om Asad Haiders alldeles för tidiga död. En av de vassaste tänkarna i den nya generationen nordamerikanska vänsteraktivister post-occupy (även om hans egen politisering skedde innan 2011). Läs honom om Gaza: viewpointmag.com/2021/05/27/l...

Harvey at 90: A @versobooks.bsky.social series of short essays davidharvey.org/2025/11/harv...

Riktigt pangnummer av Brand 🔥

New book review -- Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson's "The Rest and the West: Capital and Power in a Multipolar World" antipodeonline.org/2025/09/19/t... @versobooks.bsky.social

From Buber-Neumann’s “Under Two Dictators”. Just devastating.

In short, what we are now witnessing across the world, further aggravated by the proliferation of far-right governments, fascist billionaires, social media representations and the subsequent delusions that mushroom in a life that is not lived but algorithmically spewed out. End/

My latest in Field Notes on the decay and demise of the modern state as we knew it brooklynrail.org/2025/09/fiel...

“Capturing Displacement” explores empirical, epistemological & methodological aspects of displacement. A Swedish case shows how mixed‑methods bridge ontological gaps. By Åse Richard, Marcus Mohall & Irene Molina 📖 tinyurl.com/2wnd5chp

Frantz fyller 100 idag

Nu är det strejk igen. God midsommar.

Är detta en människa?

Fett ös och kul tryck på magazine/fanzinemässan i Hägerstensåsen.

Missade du Brands release på Cyklopen 1 maj? Här är vår livepodd om nya numret. Tema: Liv och död. tidningenbrand.se/2025/05/09/5...

How can we better understand displacement beyond gentrification?🏙️ In this recently published article, Irene Molina, Åse Richard, and Marcus Mohall use a dialectical mixed-methods approach to explore the lived impacts of renoviction in Uppsala, Sweden. 🔍📊🗣️ doi.org/10.1111/1468...

I have a new article out on wage-earner funds, a famous attempt at economic democracy in Sweden in the 70s & 80s. It explores the funds' defeat, emphasising the issue's stronger resonance with businesses compared to workers & the Social Democratic Party journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Nytt nummer av Brand, med det 2025-anpassade temat liv och död. tidningenbrand.se/brand/nummer...

Döden är här. Livet gör motstånd. Dödsdoulor, biopolitisk motmakt, genushatarna, brevväxling om folkmord, tradwifes, livspoesi, mördarrobotar, arbetarkvinnor för fred (1905!). Liv och död i förstamaj-numret av Brand.

För tre år sedan lanserades en rikstäckande tågbiljett i Tyskland. Vänsterpartiet och Miljöpartiet vill se en motsvarande ”Sverigebiljett” – och enligt transportforskaren Jens Hylander kan det vara ett sätt att bygga politiskt engagemang kring kollektivtrafiken. www.flamman.se/billigare-bu...

Last in the series on PRS financialization looks at five key take aways on its significance for housing systems and tenants @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social @daraturnbull.bsky.social @jiegson.bsky.social theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/prs-financ...

"We now expect a 3°C world," Morgan Stanley analysts wrote earlier this month, citing "recent setbacks to global decarbonization efforts."

I'm really happy that the Aesthetics of Resistance is finally available in English in its entirety. There's probably no other book I have been thinking about as much lately

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Min text i senaste Brand utforskar den kollaps för internationell rätt vi sett senaste åren. Var det verkligen en kollaps, eller snarare spiken i kistan för försöken att skapa en ordning som aldrig levt upp till sina löften?

Our open-access paper "Capturing Displacement: A Dialectical Mixed-Methods Approach to the Study of Renoviction—A Case from Sweden" is now published in early view in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....