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Desiree Fields

@desireefields.bsky.social
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Critical economic geographer: digital experiments with property, place, financial subjectivity. @ucbgeography.bsky.social‬ Editor, Environment and Planning A

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Joshua L. Conver @jlc-phd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A review of Alex Werth’s On Loop: Black Sonic Politics in Oakland by Kevin C. Holt now available. The book “unpacks the intricacies…of Oakland’s history of using policy to restrict Black sound (and by extension Black people) while also noting how Black Oaklanders have used sound as resistance.”
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On Loop: Black Sonic Politics in Oakland
Published in The AAG Review of Books (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 02/09/2026
great job here - in the very dynamic political economy program at berkeley - a dream gig! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05425
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
Assistant Professor – Political Economy – 50% Political Economy and 50% in a Related Discipline
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Really cool new commentary about the “scam” under digital capitalism @ctwittekind.bsky.social @desireefields.bsky.social @jmigozzi.bsky.social @jovannarosen.bsky.social @lfalvarezleon.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2053...
Scams all the way up: The scam as vernacular analytic of digital capitalism 

By Courtney T. Wittekind, Elizabeth Resor, Jovanna Rosen, Hilary Faxon, Kendra Kintzi, Julien Migozzi, Luis F. Alvarez León, and Desiree Fields
 
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Scams have proliferated under digital capitalism; so too have stories of scams and allegations of scamming. In this commentary, we focus on the latter to situate the scam as a “vernacular analytic:” an everyday mode of critique invoked to question the normative systems and institutions that rule our lives, but are experienced as exploitative or rigged. While this vernacular analytic is a powerful and pervasive means to highlight inequality, we argue that it obscures what is unique about scams amid capitalism's digitalization. In response, we develop a systematic approach to study this vernacular analytic as it circulates under digital capitalism. We propose three features of the scam as a vernacular analytic: critique at scale, the fallout of digital mimicry, and the exploitation of affect. This threefold framework provides a common foundation for empowering us to counter inequitable and exploitative systems by reimagining and rebuilding institutions and our trust in them. We argue that recognizing the power and pervasiveness of the scam as a vernacular analytic, and interrogating how scams operate under digital capitalism, are essential steps toward a future less vulnerable to digitally mediated exploitation.
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caithow @caithow.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Once again, its faculty protecting the university, the students, and the very idea of education FROM administrators and boards. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 22/07/2026
Child throws caution on the Santa story but sees promise in Tooth Fairy
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I’m excited to shared draft AI Guidelines for the CUNY Graduate Center community @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Importantly, they embed a right of refusal for faculty, staff, and students where reasonable alternatives exist.
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Desiree Fields @desireefields.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
shocked...SHOCKED, etc.
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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
One of my favorite Cabo Verde facts is that it has a genre of music that arose after an abandoned ship washed up in 1968, carrying hundreds of keyboards and synths
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How a mysterious ghost ship brought cosmic disco to Cape Verde
A new compilation documents the strange history of the African country’s groove-laden sound, formed following the discovery of a boatload of synths
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 12/06/2026
My "all trillionaires deserve the guillotine" shirt is raising a lot of questions answered by the shirt
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economyandspace.bsky.social @economyandspace.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Economy and Space Vol. 58, No. 4 is now available online! Link and ToC below: journals.sagepub.com/toc/epna/58/...
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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
In the not too distant future, private schools will be advertising themselves on the basis that their pupils are taught to think, read and write without the use of AI. Being able to use your own brain will be treated like a commodity, and a privilege for the elite.
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Phenomenal World @phenomenalworld.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
“The Trumpian deployment of the economic tactics of state capitalism will reshape the struggle for green development in the global South and the terrain of progressive politics in the US itself.” NEW from @iliasalami.bsky.social & @triofrancos.bsky.social phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru...
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Trumpian State Capitalism | Ilias Alami & Thea Riofrancos
Critical minerals security and US economic interventionism
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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
A robot car will drive your kid to soccer practice. A disembodied voice will comfort your child at night. A glowing screen will teach your child; a matrix on a GPU will calculate their worth. They will learn morality from a conglomerate. And you will be free.
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Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
My U of MN department has launched a scholarship fund to honor Alex Pretti (BA '11) who got a Geography degree before becoming a VA Nurse. Here's how to give. The money goes to support students in our department. Thanks! makingagift.umn.edu/give/fund.ht...
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Donate to the University of Minnesota
There are many ways to give that not only help create excellence at the U, but also contribute to your own personal and financial goals.
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Desiree Fields @desireefields.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
New paper with @jmigozzi.bsky.social! What kind of financial subjects emerge at the intersection of investment platforms and social media narratives of financial freedom? Come for our critique of fintech's 'democratization', stay for our innovative computational+qualitative methods!
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Platform freedom: Financial subjectivity at the nexus of investment and social media - Desiree Fields, Julien Migozzi, 2026
Platforms enabling individuals to invest in stocks, cryptocurrency, real estate, and other assets have proliferated globally. Meanwhile, narratives of financial...
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
If you needed a twitter thread to learn that Palantir is a fascist company, that's okay with me, but you could also have read Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social already last year inthesetimes.com/article/pala...
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Built to Dominate
Palantir is designing the infrastructure of repression—and telling us why.
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Desiree Fields @desireefields.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I expected more from someone so knowledgeable about groceries.
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute
In Bruges scene where Colin Farrell is pointing a gun at his head and Brendon Gleeson is also pointing a gun at Colin Farrell's head
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Flingjore @flingjore.com · 10/04/2026
Meta removes ads from its platforms targeting attorneys who recruit plaintiffs for social media addiction lawsuits. The move follows recent courtroom defeats in New Mexico and Los Angeles that challenge Section 230 protections. Meta cites competitive interests for the removals.
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Meta Is Pulling Down Ads That Seek to Recruit Clients for Social Media Addiction Litigation
Two landmark social media addiction trials opened the floodgates and Meta is officially afraid.
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Desiree Fields @desireefields.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
“Looking forward to its next conquest”
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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...
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Will Craven @wkcraven.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
This is excellent: a fifty year history of muscle cars, mass cruising, and sideshows in Oakland. On a minor note one of my favorite things about Oakland is that Oakland rap fans listen to Oakland rap.
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Desiree Fields @desireefields.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I had a whole unit on TP supply chains! And a great final project from a student who collected and analyzed memes about the Ever Given.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Leading candidates for new AG: -- Alex Murdaugh -- That Nazi ICE prosecutor in Texas -- Aaron Schlossberg -- Kevin Lomax -- Some lady lawyer Trump finds attractive -- The corpse of A. Mitchell Palmer -- Nicki Minaj -- Inspector Javert -- Alan Dershowitz
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/03/2026
adam says it much more succintly. the american right will happily impoverish the united states and make it an oversized backwater if it means they can dominate women and minorities and play act as a master class
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MHoussayH @mhoussayh.cpesr.fr · 29/03/2026
The first sentence is "I am beginning to worry that geographers might be some of the nicest people in the world." 🙋‍♀️ Pure AAG spirit @geographers.bsky.social
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Screenshot of Christian Bale smiling, playing Michael Burry in the movie The Big Short (2015)
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
📢 Call: Tenure Track Position The MPIfG Political Economy Research Area led by Lucio Baccaro is seeking a Senior Researcher. Open to candidates with at least two years’ postdoc experience. Please share widely! 🗓️ Apply by April 20, 2026 s.gwdg.de/WPMPp1
Tenure Track Position: Senior Researcher, Political Economy. Application Deadline. April 20, 2026
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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
If this wasn’t such a tragedy there’d be a funny movie with whoever the Iranian Seth Rogen is where he’s the guy who picks up the ringing phone and becomes the accidental head of Iran in communication with the Trump admin
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 24/03/2026
Underrated that the era of neoliberal globalism characterized by fierce defense of intellectual property as rents, patents, and copyrights gave way so quickly to a new paradigm marked by the blithe plunder of all human creativity for LLM training data.
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Rahim Kurwa @rahimk.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
BREAKING: Federal Court Finds Columbia U May Have Acted as Government’s Instrument to Suppress Palestinian Advocacy – in Violation of the First Amendment www.cair-ny.org/news/3/19/26...
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BREAKING: Federal Court Finds Columbia U May Have Acted as Government’s Instrument to Suppress Palestinian Advocacy – in Violation of the First Amendment — CAIR NY
(NEW YORK, NY, 3/19/26) –  A coalition including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR National), CAIR-NY, Dratel & Lewis, Project TAHA, and Main Street Legal Service...
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 21/03/2026
How will Liam's classmates ever feel safe in a country where the government can replace a friend with an empty chair?
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Remember the LMAO @ass.golf · 20/03/2026
hey if "the economy" is completely decoupled from the welfare of the people, WHAT IS THE FUCKING POINT OF THE ECONOMY
"people are starving but THE ECONOMY is doing great"
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 17/03/2026
masterful gambit to make shipping costs go up higher by artificially reducing the supply of truck drivers in the middle of the biggest energy crisis in 50 years
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Once again, a self-professed champion of "Western Civilization" shows disdain for its basic concepts, such as "the unexamined life is not worth living," attributed to Socrates, who is not exactly "modern."
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 13/03/2026

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New: Federal Judge quashes subpoenas sent to Fed/Powell: "There is abundant evidence that the subpoenas’ dominant (if not sole) purpose is to harass  and pressure Powell either to yield to the President or to resign and make way for a Fed Chair who will" & no evidence to contrary
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 ViewsJerome Powell sunglasses DEAL WITH IT meme
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 12/03/2026
I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children. This is learned today: Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%. www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...
After a series of fatal strikes involving civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress directed the Pentagon to reduce civilian casualties as part of a 2019 law. During the Biden administration, the Defense Department created the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response initiative.

The civilian mitigation teams – cut by 90% by Hegseth – work with military commanders on target planning, and making sure that targets are actually military sites. The teams help come up with "no strike" lists, including religious and cultural sites and schools
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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Life in rural America: our sheriff installing flock cameras, local defense drone companies testing their optical tracking tech on our towns, govt agencies scrubbing us down with viewshed software for violations, conservation org volunteers driving around to photograph our homes for violations.
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Will B. Payne @willbpayne.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I have a new open access article in Geoforum, looking at how abrasive online “finfluencers” promise riches through buying cheap properties to rent to Housing Choice Voucher (“Section 8”) holders, using outdated spatial arbitrage strategies and AI automation: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The Section 8 (F)influencer economy
The Housing Choice Voucher (HCV, colloquially known as “Section 8” vouchers) program is one of the largest affordable housing programs in the United S…
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die' people.com/trump-says-i...
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Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'
In an interview with 'Time,' President Donald Trump acknowledged the possibility that Iran retaliates with attacks on U.S. soil, saying, 'We think about it all the time. We plan for it'
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Desiree Fields @desireefields.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I think this is probably true of AI for most professions: effective for those who already have the expertise to discern quality and accuracy, otherwise it just multiplies the amount of garbage production.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
The war on Iran & the war on immigrants aren’t different stories— wars justify investments in technologies of violence, create a foreign threat that manufactures consent for the abrogation of domestic rights. See: “War on Terror” that killed millions & in whose shadow DHS was formed.
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Desiree Fields @desireefields.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Oh. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...
Screenshot of a New York Times update about importers getting refunds on tariffs highlighting that "companies are not likely to issue refunds, or lower prices" for consumers.
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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 20/02/2026
The Supreme Court:
Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM.
BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 18/02/2026
"Approaching Yarvin as a 'political philosopher' is approximately as helpful as approaching Jerry Springer as a moral theorist. One comes away with the sense that the joke is only ever on oneself for trying to get to the bottom of him in such terms." hedgehogreview.com/issues/place...
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Desiree Fields @desireefields.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Great thread on what Lincoln had to say about Jefferson:
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