Colorful Architecture https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/483126

I’m on @thedigradio.bsky.social. We talk about the intertwined histories of capitalism and extraction; the origins of OPEC & new geopolitics of supply chains; what I think about degrowth; green development in the Global South; green economic populism in US; Chinese industrial policy & much more

The vase https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/the-vase-1938

ICYMI: This spring, we curated a library of 700+ books examining the commitments of people to one another and to the planet, and exemplifying the porch as a shelter for democratic encounter. Hundreds of books were on the shelf in the U.S. Pavilion at the Biennale. And we also built a bibliography:

“In her radical exploration of water, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson topples anthropocentrism and conventional ontologies to reveal water in all its forms as a powerful decolonizing force that connects us all.” Congratulations to @biidaasamose.bsky.social, author of Theory of Water!

Jaureguiberry Mondion: "Book brings social reproduction theory into conversation with work on precarity"

Josefina Jaureguiberry Mondion: "housing precarity reproducing intersecting forms of violence"

Christina de Bellaigue: reading the book as an historian researching downward social mobility ("as taboo subject")

Katherine and Mel track the intensive and expansive forms of violence that underpin the debt trap

Debt Trap Nation explores indebtedness as "impersonal arithmetic" (Graeber) and its consequential forms of dispossession and displacement

Book explores intersection of housing insecurity and indebtedness as form of disaster capitalism

The authors ask: "What are the makings of debt trap?"

Katherine and Mel remind us that, in Oxford, there are 269 homeless children + 18 households with children in hotels + B&Bs above 6 week limit.

I will be posting updates of tonight's Rent Cultures Network book panel event in Oxford. We are delighted to host Katherine Brickell and Mel Nowicki on their urgent new book, Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State.

Apply now — Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice, “Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis”, deadline 20 December 2025 antipodeonline.org/2025/11/13/a...

New book review -- "Migrant Justice in the Age of Removal: Rights, Law, and Resistance against Territory’s Exclusions" by @jacobchamberlain.bsky.social antipodeonline.org/category/boo... @ugapress.bsky.social

This is happening today in Oxford! An important and urgent book www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/debt-t...

Wrote about 'Resistance', Steve McQueen's exhibition on 20th century protest. Some wonderful photographs, and some difficult questions about how to tell this story in our current moment. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Anna Negri's introduction to the film she made about her father, Toni Negri and their relationship. youtu.be/-aduUkreFzo?...

We are looking forward to hosting this event in Oxford tomorrow

Tomorrow my new book 'Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State' will land in the dreaming spires of Oxford. A city home to 269 homeless children+ 18 households with children in hotels + B&Bs above 6 week limit. Here's the Rent Cultures Network event: torch.ox.ac.uk/event/debt-t...

A shout out to the audience members who ran across the road to grab a Döner Kebab during the act 2 intermission of Tristan und Isolde at the Deutsche Oper

Last week I saw another painting by Caravaggio in person: “Supper at Emmaus” (1606), at the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan. For his technical mastery, innovative methods, and psychological/emotional depth, I regard him as the world’s greatest painter. I wish I could write history the way he paints.

Join the Rent Cultures Network at TORCH on 13 Nov, 5 pm for a book presentation of Debt Trap Nation with @kbrickell.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki. They show how debt and housing insecurity shape everyday life in England and call for urgent structural change. torch.ox.ac.uk/event/debt-t...

Our special issue, ‘Liquid Worlds: Historical Geographies and Cartographies of the Sea’ is out! sciencedirect.com/special-issue/106NCK35M97 Take a look at the issue’s contents below. (Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’) 1/16

You’ll want to listen.

#OtD 1 Nov 1963 Black tenants began a rent strike in Harlem, NYC. By January, about 2000 tenants were withholding rent. The strike caused the city to create a rat eradication program, legalize rent strikes, and pass laws to improve housing conditions stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7712...

Seaside Resort in the South of France http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/klee-seaside-resort-in-the-south-of-france-t06795

»Das ist unser Haus« www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1195...

"David Harvey in Paris: A Tribute for his 90th Birthday" progressivegeographies.com/2025/10/31/d... @davidharvey.org A short piece about Harvey's writings on Paris, posted to coincide with his birthday.

Today is David Harvey's 90th birthday! To celebrate, preorder his upcoming book The Story of Capital and take 30% off all of his previously published works

Full moon https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/full-moon-1919

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Abstraction with Reference to a Flowering Tree https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/abstraction-with-reference-to-a-flowering-tree-1925

Two country houses https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/two-country-houses-1918

Announcing Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ), "Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis", Toronto, 1-5 June 2026 antipodeonline.org/institute-fo... -- submit your application by 20 December 2025

Today!!! Sign up for what will be another landmark contribution/provocation from Professor AbdouMaliq SImone..

Postcard for Bauhaus Lantern Party 1922 (Laternenfest Bauhaus 1922) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/67194

Fish Magic https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/fish-magic-1925

It is hard to do justice to the sheer scale of the housing crisis in the UK

Fifth and final episode of Winter Well on air BBC Radio 4 today: how should we anticipate our winters yet to come? Big thanks to all contributing folks who gave voice to experience and expertise. And esp to Helen Needham, producer whizz and all-round winter wonder. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026 Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026

In today’s episode of Winter Well connections get drawn between darkness and dormancy, and we find out why “coorying in” is a seasonal kind of self-care. Tune in, BBC Radio 4 @ 1.45pm or catch it on Sounds _anytime_! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @hesterparr.bsky.social @alecfinlay.bsky.social

Oh wow. We were on this trail a few months ago! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Castle Garden http://www.moma.org/collection/works/78806

On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle is really remarkable

David Harvey, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works - @versobooks.bsky.social, February 2026 www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

The Underground Railroad’s Stealth Sailors | Eric Foner | @nybooks.com The web of Atlantic trading routes and solidarity among maritime workers, many of them Black, meant fugitive slaves’ chances of reaching freedom were better below deck than over land. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Individualized Altimetry of Stripes https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/individualized-altimetry-of-stripes-1930