Fredric Jameson passed one year ago today. Jameson contributed some of the most important Marxist cultural criticism of the twentieth century. To honor the great writer's life, we've discounted his titles and encourage everyone to read the works he produced in his 90 years.

'New Urban Frontiers' This @urbangeography.bsky.social special issue edited by me and @clairemercer.bsky.social has now been published online: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rurb20/4... A thread on the papers 👇

This flower wishes to fade https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/hamamet-1914

House on the Water https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/house-on-the-water-1930

Looking forward to speaking in Mälmo at the Institute for Urban Research next Wednesday: www.iuresearch.se/event/radica...

Rhythmic (Rythmical) https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/rhythmic-rythmical-1930

Amazing rugby result for Canada!

📢 The September Issue of IJURR is out! Explore cutting-edge research on urban politics, housing, mobility, inequality, and resistance from across the globe. 🔗 Read the full issue here: www.ijurr.org/issue/vol-49...

Looking forward to speaking at the GRASP festival in Roskilde next Thursday. Details here: graspfestival.dk/en/programme...

My next book, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works, will be published on 24 February 2026 by @versobooks.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/products/337...

Just arrived: Debt Trap Nation by @kbrickell.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki “A compelling call to action... shows how reimagining policy could deliver economic justice.” - @nicolajanesharp.bsky.social Author royalties will be donated to @seacharity.bsky.social www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...

Seminar: Managing ordinary life: (Im)predictability, Violence and Solidarity in Latin American Urban Margins, by Ana Beraldo de Carvalho, on 2 October 2025 – 5-6:30 pm (online). Sciences Po. www.sciencespo.fr/research/cit... #urban #sociology

Bird Landscape https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/483165

"In the earliest fragments Benjamin sought to salvage a pure and radical concept of criticism that would not dissolve into the universal truth of philosophy." Anthony Curtis Adler reviews Walter Benjamin's "On Goethe." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-useless-prophet/

Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...

Necropolis https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/necropolis-1929

A final shout out for tomorrow's commoning workshop in Oxford!

This is a great little collection in Transactions on 'worlding geography' and area studies... rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social

#OtD 11 Sep 1946 the Abbey Lodge block of flats in Regents Park, London was squatted by homeless families of WWII ex-servicemen. It was part of a wave of similar occupations in the wake of WWII stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8359...

#OtD 10 Sep 1946 60 homeless families of WWII ex-servicemen squatted the Fountain Court block of flats in Victoria, London. It was part of a mass wave of squatting amidst an acute housing crisis stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8258...

Sam has also written an important book on the recent history of London's squatting scene

A final call for a creative workshop in Oxford on commoning and spatial justice. I am especially excited for the sound walks that have been created for the workshop. Come join us! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sounds-of-...

Did you know that 1.2 million people in the UK live without flooring? And typically in social housing it is removed between each tenancy? For homeless families moving out of temporary accommodation and into social housing flooring can necessitate new or more debt. #HousingCommunitySummit

Circulating details of a very exciting event in Oxford on Saturday!

My first book, Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos (University of Hawai'i Press, 2025), exists in this world! Check it out at: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social... 1/4

New piece with Simon Marvin & Jon Rutherford on 'infrastructural extensions'. We examine how infrastructure is being stretched into new domains (the elemental, care, more-than-human, cyber-physical, & neurotechnical). Open access in @ijurresearch.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#OpenAccess in TIBG: 'Hide and rule: Accumulation by disappearance and necro-periurbanisation in Brazil' by @jshutta.bsky.social This paper examines the governance of peri-urban spaces near Rio de Janeiro, connecting land fraud to the systemic hiding of violence. doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

#OpenAccess in The GJ: 'Racialised violence: Riots, space and temporality' by @paulgriffin1.bsky.social et al. This piece forms part of a collection of commentaries reflecting on the UK riots which followed last July's Southport attack. doi.org/10.1111/geoj... #geosky

📣 I'M HIRING! Please spread the word 📣 🔎 Looking for a 1-year postdoctoral research associate to support @sensory-lives-prj.bsky.social & UK-wide tour of a playhouse tent communicating neurodivergent children’s experiences of Temporary Accommodation. 🛜 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOL488/p...

Just re-read Mavis Gallant's The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street. A perfect short story in every possible way. The best Canadian writer of her generation

I have a book cover!

The #WeeklyRead is “What Does Critical Theory Have to Do with Self-Emancipation?” by William Paris. The article appears in a special section, Critical Theory After Frankfurt, of New German Critique (155), edited by Paul Fleming and Cecilia Sebastian. Read it for free through 11/30: buff.ly/G1bFpZn

Habitation counter-stories: Thinking from the autoconstructed basti – Cheeta Camp, Mumbai Purva Dewoolkar and Lalitha Kamath Volume 29, 2024 - Issue 3-4 doi.org/10.1080/1360...

Fire in the Evening http://www.moma.org/collection/works/34854

Don't miss our TIBG keynote: 'Geography and the New' at RGS-IBG AC2025! 📆Thursday 28th August, 11:10 📍Teaching & Learning Building: Lecture Theatre 1 - LG18 📣Ben Anderson, Katherine Brickell & Beth Greenhough with Harriet Hawkins, Jenny Pickerill, David Bissell, Tatiana Thieme & Nathaniel Télémaque

At RGS? Come on by. We're here.

I am also speaking at the GRASP festival in Roskilde: graspfestival.dk/en/programme...

Looking forward to speaking at the Institute for Urban Research in Malmö in September. Details here: www.iuresearch.se/event/radica...

Decolonising urban knowledge(s): An ordinary imperative in extraordinary times Catalina Ortiz, Penny Tavlou, Marina Siqueira, Giulia Testori Volumen 29. 2025 - Issue 3-4 doi.org/10.1080/1360...

Oxford Spatial Action Lab is back with a creative workshop ("Sounding the Commons") exploring histories of enclosure and resistance in Oxford. Details here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sounding-t...

Ad Parnassum https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/to-the-parnassus-1932

My department is hiring! We seek to hire an Assistant Professor in Global Black Geographies whose work engages "with the spatial dimensions of life in African and/or Black diasporic communities in the Global South". Job ad with more details: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05026

Pls share: Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship competition now open at UBC. Department of Geography deadline is October 9, 2025. Details: geog.ubc.ca/job-opportun...

Now in Early View: Negotiating Urban Formalities: The Social Regulation of Construction in Douala, Cameroon By Ludovic Bakebek 👉 www.ijurr.org/article/nego...

"Resistance is at once recognition and a fantasy of catastrophe; indeed, in resisting one has always leaped forward to the impending catastrophe – the catastrophe of submitting to or complying with something fundamentally unacceptable" -Adam Phillips www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Pastorale (Rhythms) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/79012

First time back on Gabriola in a few years. Sunsets as memorable as ever

The Sublime Side postcard for "Bauhaus Exhibition Weimar 1923" (Die erhabene Seite Postkarte zur "Bauhaus-Ausstellung Weimar 1923") http://www.moma.org/collection/works/67160

📣 Call for Papers: Debt Urbanism and the Housing Question ℹ️ I'm putting together a symposium proposal to The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) with co-editors @sklosterkamp.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki 🗓️ Deadline for abstracts 22 August 2025 🏹 Please spread the word!

hi if you're trying to buy my book while Duke Press is transitioning to a new distribution warehouse, you can find it at the link below, thanks for your interest! it will be available again through DUP after July 7th. folks in canada you can also buy it through the university of toronto press