Going to start a new Electro-Yuan thread since its 1 catchy replacement to petrodollar choking at Hormuz 2 China's role in electrotech is about to surge. "China’s cross border payment system hit an all time high in volume yesterday..over 100% growth compared to the Feb data" x.com/joshualipsky...

The video recording of the panel with @triofrancos.bsky.social, Adam Hanieh, and myself, is now available on Youtube Who Owns the Energy Transition Climate, Imperialism, and the Geopolitics of Energy Frontiers www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1_h...

Mamdani nails it again. As @triofrancos.bsky.social & I argued in NYT, green economic populism means tackling the climate crisis & working people's cost of living at the same time. We need better transit, better EV infrastructure, better rideshare options. Many needs ➡️ many policies.

More Bengt Edman-brutalism/People's Park crossover photographs. Used a flea market event as cover to document some interiors yesterday. Note the recurring rhythms, scales and angels connecting indoor and outdoor space.

“We will restore peace, stability and harmony throughout the world"-Donald Trump @katemac.bsky.social & I decided it was time for a Polycrisis podcast about the peace, stability & harmony reigning throughout the world Enjoy our first season ELECTRIC WORLD ORDER podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Some thoughts on the last Kenny Cupers book: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

One more paper of the Temporalities of Urban Natures SI is out!

The Long Read today in @theguardian.com is an excerpt from the last chapter of @bentarnoff.com + my new book. We revisit DOGE as a case of Musk’s cyborg conservatism: the government as a codebase to be rewritten and cleansed. The title of the chapter is StateX. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Reminder to avoid the Thiel distraction. A point we’ve been hitting on tour is the temptation to apply intellectual history methods to a regime of accumulation (digital capitalism) is misguided. You won’t understand the Tech Right by reading books (they don’t read). Look at how they run their firms.

Pynchonsplaining the Oscars.

‘All traditional parties were beaten by two insurgents taking 70 per cent of the vote. A wide field of plausible competitors under first past the post will make the next general election difficult to predict. ’ @piercepenniless.bsky.social on the Greens’ victory. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

One final call for this session at the RGS, as we could do with one more paper to round out some amazing looking sessions. Please consider submitting, or share with someone who might! tacity.co.uk/2026/01/30/c...

Interested in tech platforms and gig-work or its roots in californian agrarian labor relations? Professor Don Mitchell will give an open lecture at KEG in Lund Thursday this week. Feel free to drop by: www.keg.lu.se/evenemang/do...

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.

Palantir co-founder says it exists to kill communists.

Joan W. Scott is spot on, as always.

Reading Marx and drinking Guinness

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...