AI-generated imagery of people doing things they haven’t done in real life is increasingly being deployed in malicious ways.

The world is in the midst of a deep and worsening housing crisis. It has caused rents to soar in Britain, millions to protest in Spain, and a government to collapse in Sweden. Under a global ideology ...

Urban violence still has a peculiar standing within social and urban research. This book works to unpack the link between urban, violence, and security with thr…

This book examines the phenomenon of urban fear – the increasing anxiety over crime and violence in Western cities despite their high safety – with a view to developing a comprehensive, critical, expl...

Book Review Forum — Shourideh C. Molavi’s Environmental Warfare in Gaza: Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance, with contributions from Claire Blencowe, Goldie Osuri, Jamie Shenk and Cami...

It’s been a bit over five years since the Stochastic Parrots paper (Bender, Gebru et al 2021) was published (and somewhat longer since…

This interview with Henri Lefebvre was conducted for the French Communist Party (PCF) journal La Nouvelle Critique in 1979. As the interview shows, Lefebvre's renewed engagement with the PCF was neith...

Federico Ferretti (University of Bologna)Guilherme Ribeiro (Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro) As part of the ethical, political and pedagogical commitment that has been mobilizing part of th...

Neil Gray, Take Over the City: Spatial Composition in Italian Autonomy – Common Notions, August 2026 Take Over the City provides the first comprehensive spatial analysis of Italian operaismo and th…

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The sex offender positioned himself as a patron of the sciences. It earned him prestige and access, and it fueled the myth of his intellectual genius.

Simone Tulumello (Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa) On January 14, 2026, the official Facebook account of The White House published a table with a list of the “Top 20 [US] metro a...

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In a previous pieces in this series I’ve discussed Étienne Wolff’s work on the biology of monsters, some of which was written during his time in Oflag XVII-A during the Second World War. (An Oflag …

Special Issue: International Expos, 1851-2025: Planning, modernity and urbanism. Guest Editor: Andrew Smith. Volume 40, Issue 6 of Planning Perspectives

Melissa Adler, Surveillance in the Empire of Liberty: Why Thomas Jefferson Matters in Our Information Age – Bloomsbury, January 2026 Examines the formation of a surveillance state through a c…

By restricting jury trials, removing protest rights and expanding surveillance, Labour is entrenching an authoritarian legal infrastructure that a far-right government will not hesitate to exploit.

Since the 1990s, a growing number of criminal courts around the world have been using expert assessments based on behavioral genetics and neuroscience to evaluate the responsibility and dangerousness ...

How Western Marxism Turns Colonial Violence into “History Theory” to Save the Settler OrderBy Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | December 14, 2025When “History Theory” Becomes an Alibi for Em…

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One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...