Is construction best left to the capitalist market? No. Let's learn from history and build new non-profit construction companies! 💥 new paper with Maria Wallstam in @housingjournal.bsky.social 💥

I loooooooooove the problem solving involved in writing Absolutely LOVE it It is a puzzle and you and your gut decide what the solution is

I am absolutely DISGUSTED & HORRIFIED that someone can present on 'killjoys' at an event with an IDF office & a speaker from the IDF. Shame on you! Katharina Klappheck GET THAT WORD OUT OF YOUR PAPER & THIS EVENT! White supremacy = this. Genocide = this. NO to this! www.hsu-hh.de/ztb/tagungsp...

'My latest' an attempt an conceptualizing a critical eviction-logistics as the allocation of loss, at the convergence of mobility race and housing, while trying to follow the moving parts of Eviction in Cape Town (and working within the complexities of a pandemic where eviction was paused):

Who should I read on what happens when a person’s life/ experience becomes a statistic or is reduced to a data point?

CONCRETE UTOPIAS: Prefigurating alternative futures in the face of capitalist cities. Online Lecture Series from 28 May to 25 June 2025. www.tu.berlin/planningtheo... #urban #sociology

New paper on 🏠💥 "Housing Crisis or Immiseration? Revisiting the Housing Question under Urban Capitalism" With Timothy Blackwell in @antipodeonline.bsky.social

It’s a miracle any non-white, non straight, non-citizen person in America is getting any work done right now— —While the regime is actively trying to purge us from government, workplaces, universities from its websites, and from society in general.

When writing alt text for a map of a tornado path, for example, "Map of tornado path" doesn't cut it. Instead, consider the things that sighted users get from the map. That usually includes the direction the tornado is moving and the communities affected.

If you tweet images of what to do during a weather-related emergency, share that advice with blind and low-vision users, too. Add alt text. The alt text should include the text in the image, rather than just a vague description, so people aren't missing out on vital information.

You can measure an economy's actual, real life, concrete health by: are people able to do their own weird shit? Do they have money to survive doing their weird shit? Do they have the free time to do that weird shit? Fuck the metrics, just look for the dirtbags and artists and musicians and writers

This is why the rhetoric of obsolescence is misguided. AI is not going to render humanities professors obsolete. AI is a permission structure to university administrators and state legislatures to continue shrinking our presence in education and defunding our research.

"I'm working on a book about couches and what it means to collapse. To move the point of view from a standing position to a lying flat position... It's looking at collapse as a necessary, perhaps restorative measure" ❤️ — Claudia Rankine, from the Whitney Review 004

One-year post-docs should not be a thing

"Although buildings may offer settings that are conducive to healing, they do not in and of themselves heal us... And regardless of best intentions or persuasive rhetoric, places designed for the public good... cannot produce beneficial outcomes without sustained social and financial support."

Inbox: ‘Wanted’ posters of healthcare CEOs wheatpasted around lower Manhattan ahead of today’s Goldman Sachs Financial Services conference. “Those who would steal from us have names, faces, and addresses. Justice will only come from the working class,” per anon communique.

Rdg the new issue of @thefunambulist.bsky.social on “bulldozer politics,” on bulldozers as key weapons — of demolition and clearing-for-colonization — in Gaza and elsewhere. Glad to see an interview w/ Francesca Ammon, author of Bulldozer: Demolition + Clearance of the Postwar Landscape, here

A plea to critical social scientists and theorists to not only criticize modes of exploitation, domination, and extraction but to also construct emancipatory alternatives. Based on a plenary talk I gave at the Critical Sociology conference this past summer: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/AUIDX...

some things are objectively bad and shouldn’t exist and if you work on making them anyway you are a bad person

Sara Safransky, The City after Property: Abandonment and Repair in Postindustrial Detroit - Duke University Press, August 2023 www.dukeupress.edu/the-city-aft... The Prologue and Chapter 1 are available open access www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMa...

Peer review requests just keep coming. I’m glad to do the work, but I hope all journals acknowledge our contribution by at least publishing the names of their referees in the past year. Discount codes and free limited-time access to SAGE, Wiley, or elsewhere aren’t very useful tokens of thanks.

Free Ebooks for a Free Palestine 🇵🇸

💯: “As a minority academic, you have to be very, very good at what you do. The more intersectional your identity, the more hurdles you face…If I’m the first one to do something, I know my fight will be a lot harder… It is a fight that takes over every single aspect of my life.” ~ Vandita Patel