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@potentiaspace.bsky.social
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Oxford prof, writer, experimental geographer. Exploring the radical possibilities of collective city life. Posting in a personal capacity. The Autonomous City (New ed. Verso, 2023; Alianza, 2023) Metropolitan Preoccupations (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)

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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 18h
May Picture www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/se…
The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1984
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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New #OpenAccess article from Kate Derickson and Diksha Shriyan, "Keywords for Feminist Conjunctural Analysis" doi.org/10.1111/anti... -- "Feminist conjunctural analysis is neither a diagnosis nor is it an autopsy. It is a practice of midwifery."
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Keywords for Feminist Conjunctural Analysis
Geography's engagement with conjunctural analysis is resurging as scholars attempt to sharpen our shared analytical tools to make sense of our contemporary interregnum. Conjunctural analysis (CA) is ...
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Working with the Michel Foucault archives – a brief guide to what is in Paris, Normandy, Berkeley and elsewhere progressivegeographies.com/2026/09/27/w...
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Working with the Michel Foucault archives – a brief guide to what is in Paris, Normandy, Berkeley and elsewhere
I am sometimes contacted by people who want advice about working with Michel Foucault’s archives. Although I’m generally happy to try to help, and there are others who are better placed to advise o…
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Alex @potentiaspace.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On this day
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Alex @potentiaspace.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It was on this day, 55 years ago, that the 'Freetown' of Christiania was founded
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We're thrilled to be able to support six new early-career research Fellowships thanks to funding from the Wolfson Foundation. Applications open 21 October. Find out more: bit.ly/47fu2b0
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The British Academy and Wolfson Foundation launch new search for exceptional early-career researchers as funding confirmed for new Fellowships
The British Academy is delighted to announce another round of funding from the Wolfson Foundation for early career research fellowships in the humanities and social sciences.
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 17/09/2026
I'll be at the Vienna Humanities Festival end of next week if you're there, in convo with FT literary editor Fred Studemann @frederick65.ft.com. www.humanitiesfestival.at/slobodian
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Pierre Macherey has written about this in a piece translated in Theory, Culture and Society - "Did Foucault Find a ‘Way Out’ of Hegel?". trans. Susan Ruddick journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... (part of a theme issue on Foucault before the Collège de France).
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Michel Foucault, The Constitution of a Historical Transcendental in Hegel’s “Phenomenology of Spirit”: Graduate Thesis in Philosophy, 1949 – ed. Christophe Bouton, trans. Emilio E. Feijóo No cover yet, but scheduled for August 2027 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... @uchicagopress.bsky.social
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The Constitution of a Historical Transcendental in Hegel’s
The first English translation of Foucault’s previously lost master’s thesis, itself an original contribution to the study of Hegel’s philosophy.On June 11, 1949, a twenty-three-year-old Michel Foucaul...
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economyandspace.bsky.social @economyandspace.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
OnlineFirst - "The unlawful rent gap: How landlords close rent gaps despite rent regulation" by Justin Kadi: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Blue bird pumpkin www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/blue-b…
Blue bird pumpkin
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PROKLA. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft @prokla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Den Artikel von Sarah Klosterkamp Sarah Klosterkamp über »Rechtskämpfe im #Mietrecht, anwaltliche Unterversorgung und die Rückkehr sozialer Ungleichheit« aus der aktuellen PROKLA könnt ihr im das nd als gekürzten Abdruck lesen. Hier geht es zum ganzen Artikel: prokla.de/index.php/...
Foto eines Zeitungsartikels mit der Überschrift "Wenn das Recht unerreichbar wird"
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Michel Foucault, Dits et écrits. Une anthologie, introduction by Frédéric Gros, Chronology by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, notes and index by Dan di Razza Dilasser - Bibliothèque de la Pléiade October 2026 michel-foucault.com/2026/09/13/m... thanks to @foucault-news.bsky.social for the alert
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Michel Foucault, Dits et écrits. Une anthologie. La Pléiade (2026)
Michel Foucault, Dits et écrits. Une anthologie, Introduction par Frédéric Gros, chronologie par Henri-Paul Fruchaud, notules et index analytique par Dan di Razza Dilasser, Collection Bibliothèque …
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Julian Go and Stuart Schrader eds. Imperial Entanglements of Policing - @dukepress.bsky.social, November 2026 www.dukeupress.edu/imperial-ent...
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Imperial Entanglements of Policing
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Alex @potentiaspace.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
End Times Fascism (@naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social) quoting Andor ("I have friends everywhere")
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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Part of G www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/part-o…
Part of G
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Bruno Leipold, Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought - @princetonupress.bsky.social, November 2024, paperback October 2026 press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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Citizen Marx
The first book to offer a comprehensive exploration of Marx’s relationship to republicanism, arguing that it is essential to understanding his thought
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Samuel Stein and David Madden join the Verso Book Club Reading Group to reckon with the ongoing fight for a right to shelter, a right to a home, and a right to the city itself. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/a...
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A Right to Housing? | The Verso Book Club Reading Group
In the fight for housing, we are caught between the world we know and the world we want. A Right to Housing? is both a road map and a reckoning, presenting practical policies for enacting a right to s...
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Coming in February! An edited collection on rivers past and present and how they move. The code E27RIVER gets you 30% off a preorder from Duke. #envhist #rivers #envhum
Cover of the book Rivers on the Move, edited by Bathsheba Demuth, by Mark Healey, anyone Giacomo Pareinello & Laurence Smith. Cover shows white swirls of a river channel on a blue background
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Alex @potentiaspace.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Looking forward to reading this!
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
They left a great, wide wake, as though continually unrolling a great wide parchment upon the sea.
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Alex @potentiaspace.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"We are up against an ideology that has given up [...] on the livability of our shared world." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world. Our mission is clear | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
An unholy alliance is working toward an apocalyptic future from which only a chosen few will emerge unscathed. It’s becoming clear how we stop them
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"The University of Chicago’s undergrad social-sciences division will go “analog” this fall, implementing a blanket policy banning technology in class and AI assistance on coursework across the division’s core courses." www.chronicle.com/article/u-of...
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U. of Chicago Bans Tech, AI in Social Sciences Core Courses
The new restrictions apply to students and faculty members.
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Generation Rent @generationrent.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"There are millions of families right now working out whether they can afford their rent next month on the back of an envelope" Listen to our CEO Holly Williamson's reaction, on @bbc5live.bsky.social, to another predicted surge in the cost of our rents.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14/09/2026
End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor review – the fightback starts here
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End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor review – the fightback starts here
A sharp analysis of the damage wrought by the reckless super-rich, and progressive toolkit for repairing it
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 13/09/2026
In an exclusive extract from his new book, A Right to Housing, Samuel Stein argues that the struggle for affordable housing is an inseparable element of the class struggle This Must Be The Place: Do We Have A Right To Housing? @versobooks.bsky.social buff.ly/8PfsrrP
Two tower blocks. Photo by Jonathan Billinger.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
First excerpt from End Times Fascism! So happy The Guardian went for the part of the book about the wonder of THIS world, and the people doing everything to commit to it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world. Our mission is clear
An unholy alliance is working toward an apocalyptic future from which only a chosen few will emerge unscathed. It’s becoming clear how we stop them
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is a marvellous opportunity for teachers wanting a secure knowledge base to teach trans-Atlantic slavery in the classroom. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-driver...
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The Driver's Story: Labour and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
Free online lecture by award-winning author and historian Professor Randy M. Browne (Xaiver University)
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Marxism and Form: 20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature - new edition, Princeton University Press, September 2026 with a foreword by Sianne Ngai. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... @princetonupress.bsky.social (2/2)
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Marxism and Form
An influential introduction to Marxist cultural criticism by the acclaimed literary theorist
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Frederic Jameson, The Prison-House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism – new edition, Princeton University Press, September 2026 with a foreword by Caleb Smith and Paul North press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... @princetonupress.bsky.social (1/2)
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The Prison-House of Language
A groundbreaking critical introduction to Structuralism and Russian Formalism by the acclaimed literary theorist
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Current issue of @newleftreview.bsky.social has some of the correspondence between Perry Anderson and Carlo Ginzburg, with an introduction by Anderson (requires subscription) newleftreview.org/issues/ii160... newleftreview.org/issues/ii160...
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Perry Anderson, Introduction: Correspondence with Carlo Ginzburg, NLR 160, July–August 2026
Carlo Ginzburg and I arrived at ucla at the same time in 1988, but without either of us, so far as I remember, being aware of the other; he taking...
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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · 11/09/2026
My new course, The Story of Capital, meets next Tuesday, September 15th at 4:15 pm [ET]. Please read The Story of Capital, Preface, Chapters 1, 2, and 3 for that class. You can watch the video from the first class here: davidharvey.org/2026/09/the-...
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The Story of Capital – Class 1
September 8, 2026 Figure 1: Circulation of CapitalFigure 2: Path of Argument in Marx’s Capital v1 The course will run on Tuesdays from 4:15-6:15pm [ET] from September 8 – December 1, 2026. Re…
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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Untitled www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/se…
The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1984
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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Flower myth www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/flower…
Flower myth
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Makespace is to open 'community living rooms' in Oxford and Abingdon, thanks to National Lottery funding.They are described as "designed with and by local citizens, where people can meet & organise to shape the future of their neighbourhoods & just be together." makespaceoxford.org/announcing-n...
Makespace work
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Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago @multipliciudad.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Video of the opening plenary session at the recent Planners Network Conference, 'Planning in the Face of Fascism,' held in Toronto in May -- feat. interventions by @skipfer.bsky.social Mona Fawaz and me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpsS...
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Alex @potentiaspace.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Absolutely this. I was very lucky to have POA which made such a massive difference
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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
New article! 'Sprouting pasts: Migration, cultivation, and landscape making in Amsterdam Nieuw-West', by Antonia Weiss. @elsevierconnect.bsky.social @elseviersej.bsky.social
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Sprouting pasts: Migration, cultivation, and landscape making in Amsterdam Nieuw-West
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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
📣 NEW EPISODE 📣 - @leninology.bsky.social on this year's wildfires. We talked about the scale and extent of the wildfires, how they compare to recent years, and the threat of the "weather whiplash" effect - with heatwaves and wildfires being followed by severe flooding:
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Interregnum - Living in the Pyrocene | Politics Theory Other
Richard returns to talk about this year's wildfires. We talked about the scale and extent of the wildfires, how they compare to recent years
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What is to be undone? How? With whom? Vishmidt teaches us that "there is no opposition between breaking and building." Infrastructural Critique is an irreplaceable invitation and guide to the work of abolition. --Alberto Toscano Available for pre-order now!
Infrastructural Critique:
Contemporary Art Between Reproduction and Abolition
by Marina Vishmidt

Preface by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten

Edited by Larne Abse Gogarty, Danny Hayward and Kerstin Stakemeier
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Among our great new books releasing this month are "Seeking Justice for Gendered Violence" by Erin Beck and Lynn Stephen and "Without Masters" by Livia K. Stone. See the whole list on our blog: dukeupress.wordpress.com/2026/09/01/n...
Cover of Seeking Justice for Gendered Violence Courts, Communities, and Care in Guatemala by Erin Beck and Lynn Stephen. Cover features a painting of an Indigenous woman in a colorful, woven top and jewelry with a serious expression. Blurred silhouettes of other women are behind her. The painting occupies the upper right. Maroon fills in the rest. The text is in small white and yellow font at the bottom.Cover of Without Masters: Autogestión, Anarchist Ethics, and Mexico City Punk by Livia K. Stone. The cover features a faded cropped print in the background with a stippling texture overlayed all in greyscale. The title is in a large black textured sans serif font taking up nearly half the cover. The subtitle is below in a solid red. The author’s name is in the bottom right corner in a black serif type.
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Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
For RGS attendees: there is an 'Author Meets Critics' session coming up Thursday for 'Techno-Negative' to talk tech refusal, abolitionism,... Thanks to @casey-lynch.bsky.social & those who kindly agreed to comment @davidjbissell.bsky.social @sophiamaalsen.bsky.social @hannahmorgann.bsky.social
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Prof Katherine Brickell FBA @kbrickell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Coming to @rgs.org conference next week? Visit The Playhouse Tent – an interactive installation exploring neurodivergent children's lives in temporary accommodation. 🖊️ Sign up for a Weds PM slot here: www.tickettailor.com/events/senso... #AC2026 #RGSIBG26 #RGS2026
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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Highway and byways www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/highwa…
Highway and byways
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
interview with the editors by Unglid Paul at the Journal of the History of Ideas blog @jhideas.bsky.social www.jhiblog.org/2026/08/26/r...
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Reintroducing Senghor: An Interview with Doyle D. Calhoun, Alioune B. Fall, and Cheikh A. Thiam
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Essential Senghor: African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics - eds. Doyle C. Calhoun, Alioune B. Fall and Sheikh Thiam, @dukepress.bsky.social, April 2026 www.dukeupress.edu/the-essentia... Introduction open access at this link
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The Essential Senghor: African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics
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School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford @oxfordgeography.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Many congratulations to Professors @debbiehopkins.bsky.social, Radhika Khosla and Janey Messina, awarded the title of Professor in the @ox.ac.uk 2026 Recognition of Distinction: www.geog.ox.ac.uk/news/three-g...
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Three geographers awarded title of Professor in 2026 Recognition of Distinction
Three geographers awarded title of Professor in 2026 Recognition of Distinction
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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Bird Wandering Off www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/bird-w…
Bird Wandering Off
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 25/08/2026
How have different radical and internationalist traditions attempted to overcome forms of domination and move towards alternative, emancipatory futures? Marral Shamshiri, our current managing editor, introduces new History Workshop series called 'Radical Horizons'.
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Radical Horizons
This article is the introduction to a new History Workshop series called ‘Radical Horizons’.
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