First time visiting the Hägerstensåsens Medborgahus/People's House today. It was packed to the brim by people who all had come to hear Wendy Brown lecture on post-liberalism from the left. Very interesting argument that will take some time to fully process, and great to catch up with old friends.

Fully salaried PhD position in Human Geography with KEG at Lund U. Please circulate among interested students with a relevant Ma degree. Formally not allowed to give individual advice on applications, but feel free to ask questions about the department and our research. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Underappreciated fact: The Great Transformation studies the rise of fascism. I have learned so much from revisiting this classic for my work on anti-fascist economics. Truly honored to be this year's Karl Polanyi Visiting Professor. See you in Vienna in June!

NYT-centrist like Ezra Klein leading with a Gramsci qoute? Morbid symptoms, indeed! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gR7...

“The scenario is not so far from that deservedly famous line of Margaret Atwood’s: men fear women laughing at them. Women fear men killing them, because she dared to laugh at him.”

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

Out just before dawn to try to capture some neo-neobrutliast early 00s architecture in my neighbourhood in the snow + holiday lights.

This article investigates the sociality of Scandinavian public swimming halls through Jean-Paul Sartre’s reworking of Marxist alienation as seriality. Drawing on fifty-nine narratives, it explores behaviors of mutual semi-unawareness in settings involving (partial) nudity among strangers.

Lossmen–Ekträsk-konflikten är Sverige längsta lockout. Det är en hundraårshändelse i svensk arbetarhistoria. Ingen arbetsplatskonflikt, har oss veterligen, pågått längre. Jag och @johanpries.bsky.social skriver idag om konflikten som pågick mellan 1924 – 1931 www.arbetaren.se/2025/12/18/s...

Turners dödsruna över Kalifornienideologin nu på svenska i @flamman.se [!!] www.flamman.se/den-texanska...

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

Had some great discussions with the terrific people of the House Europe campaign last week, who are working for European regulation that reduce demolitions. Please consider signing their petition to the EU if you live in Europe or are a citizen, and share their demands... www.houseeurope.eu

"The global system of connection built out in the 1990s has turned the social world into a resource for the oldest form of capitalism, extraction. For that kind of work Texas makes an ideal home... - Fred Turner

👻🚨Hauntology nerds help request 👻🚨 Does anyone have Mark Fisher's Ghosts of my life within reach and could help me with the correct pages for some citations from the chapter titled The Slow Cancellation of the Future? All copies checked out our library and a manuscript with incomplete citations due.

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

Quite like this courtyard I saw yesterday at Uppsala Human Geography (Economics and Social Science Faculty, former Social Science and Humanist Centre). Originally designed by Peter Celsing and completed in 1975, but a lot of the building has been modified, for the worse, in the 1990s...

BigTech at $400Bn into AI this year! "tech sector + the Mag 7 now makes up over 50% of the S&P 500's market cap." - Skanda Amarnath "The plan? We gamble the entire global economy on inventing a technology that will abolish basically all jobs on the planet" -@maiamindel www.wsj.com/tech/ai/big-...

Highgate: visited. Ghost: haunting. Halloween: done.

My article in @the-breakdown.bsky.social is now free to read online! While far-right parties have traditionally ignored climate, I explore how the Sweden Democrats embrace it as a wedge issue, creating redistributive conflicts around class & urban-rural divides: www.break-down.org/petrol-for-t...

Jag är ju partisk, men tycker ändå detta är rätt häftigt. Mer än 100 personer som tillsammans sammanställt vad vi vet om klimatmotstånd runt om i världen. Vilka aktörer? Var sker det? Och hur ser det ut? Fick äran att bidra till kapitel 2 om oljeindustrins strategier.

PTA’s Thomas Pynchon adaptations mark a shift in how readers encounter the novelist: cinema now replaces the classroom as a conduit. Our essay of the week traces Pynchon’s journey from academic postmodernism to popular cult figure. By @devintoshea.bsky.social buff.ly/5ZG50Po

This is just crucial listening to make sense of the moment. In fact, its so good I tried to log into my old Patreon account to update my lapsed credit card and reset my The Dig subscription, failed, downloaded the app, reset the password and card no and updated all my old Patreon subscriptions...

Lund University looking very University-like this morning.

Radical geographers and critical engineer friends, please share this just announced position wide and far: salaried four year phd at Lund University, Sweden, in critical infrastructure studies focused on supply chains and systemic risks. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Finally back to writing on what should be the last major piece on our People's Park research, after six weeks of teaching and grant applications. Going through recent photos, and found a few ones with appropriate autumn vibes of Bengt Edman's brick brutalist People's Park cultural center in Lund...

Incredibly lucid account of our conjuncture's origins and political stakes.

Från Nixons bandspelare till Trumps twitterflöde: lögnen har alltid varit maktens redskap. ”One battle after another” visar glidningen från kalla krigets övertygelse till vår tids tomma spektakel, skriver @johanpries.bsky.social. www.flamman.se/vad-pynchons...

It was a true honor to talk to legendary political scientist Adam Przeworski about how he understands the present crisis, what he learned from Chile and Poland, and how to move forward from here www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-...

ICE shooter Joshua Jahn's politics aren't what's being reported, three longtime former friends tell me. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...

The first high-rises of Lund. Helge Zimdahl, 1958-60. There are three of these cooperatively owned buildings hovering above the villas of the most push area of the city in what used to be the gardens of the Bishop's faux tudor castle-like estate (parts of the gardens are preserved as a public park).

🚨 New on Substack, my post on Dawson's Heights, Kate Macintosh's masterpiece: municipaldreams.substack.com/p/dawsons-he...

New paper, on environmental protests, infrastructure and the values connected to car-use.

Zohran Mamdani wins the internet for the day and probably the week and month. Spoiler alert: the super rich are unhappy that Mamdani will win in a landslide

I'm excited to share the final cover for Silicon Empires and very grateful for the kind words that others have offered. Pre-order here: www.amazon.co.uk/Silicon-Empi...

Great piece

Höganäs former People's Park (Sweden). Founded circa 1906 by local unions, mostly from the port, nearby mines and ceramics works I would assume. Sold to the municipality more than a decade ago, and redeveloped as a public park and housing area. Many traces in the landscape, however, remain.

Hello new followers! Interested in the history of #antifascism and resistance? Here is a short thread about the edited volumes and special issues that I have had the privilege to co-edit. All containing contributions by stellar authors with new exciting perspectives. Share if you like! /1

Halmstad People's Park (Sweden): built by trade union 1905 and used by them for many decades. What remains is a public park slated for housing development, loudly opposed by a group of locals. Halmstad, particularly its port and railroad, was in the early 20th century a key node of labor militancy.

Become my new colleague! Two weeks left to send in your application. #envpol #envhist #greensky #envhum @environmentalpol.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social @cnsjournal.bsky.social

Phil A. Neel launched a substack: “Geopolitics has, quite literally, become a bread-and-butter issue across much of the globe, [...] Whether ecological, economic, or political, it appears that the “planetary” is now, in every sense, immediate.” philneel.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

That feeling when you get physical copies of your new book. Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future. Written with @kaiheron.bsky.social and @bertrussell.bsky.social for @plutopress.bsky.social. Available for pre-order now: www.plutobooks.com/978074535135...

We’re thrilled to share the jacket for Thomas Pynchon’s highly anticipated new novel Shadow Ticket, coming October 7, 2025! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316427...

Just back from a great conference organised by @globalurbanhistory.bsky.social at CMS/TU Berlin. Presented our work on concrete, brutalism, heritage and sustainability with KEG postdoc Alva Zalar. Interesting debates and interventions, and nice opportunity for me to practice photography!

Honoured to have ben entrusted to write up my thoughts on Sharad Chari's wonderful "Gramsci at sea" for @city-journal.bsky.social alongside Moreno-Tabarez review of Chari's other new book, "Apartheid remains". Both books are outstanding, although in very different ways... doi.org/10.1080/1360...

If was fantastic to have @goingmedieval.bsky.social on the podcast (Culture, Power, Politics) to talk about why everyone should stop talking about techno-feudalism. Episode is here or can be found in any podcast app: culturepowerpolitics.org/2025/07/04/w...

The relentless & vast machine-like production of writing arguing 'compact density is good' that list-off a set of 'ingredients' (trees, walkability, better health, nice places) but which either refuse or don't see that the neighbourhoods highlighted are *almost always rich* melts my noggin-brain.

Brutalism is for the children. (Building: Landskrona Konsthall, Sten Samuelson and Fritz Jaenecke, 1963; Garden design: Ulla Molin 1989)

Assistant professorship in Human ecology at the dept of Human Geography at Lund Uni just out. Please circulate to anyone working with nature-human relationships who might would want to work out of Lund. Personally hoping people interested in planning issues apply! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...