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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 5h

Castle Garden http://www.moma.org/collection/works/78806

Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection Fund

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Alex @potentiaspace.bsky.social · 18h

On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle is really remarkable

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 1d

David Harvey, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works - @versobooks.bsky.social, February 2026
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The Story of Capital

For decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx's work, particularly Capital, to great acclaim. He has analysed chapter by chapter - sometimes line-by-line - Marx's three volumes and the Grundrisse. ...

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Alex @potentiaspace.bsky.social · 1d

Some of the trips in the original thread surely didn't happen

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 2d

The Underground Railroad’s Stealth Sailors | Eric Foner | @nybooks.com

The web of Atlantic trading routes and solidarity among maritime workers, many of them Black, meant fugitive slaves’ chances of reaching freedom were better below deck than over land.
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The Underground Railroad’s Stealth Sailors | Eric Foner

The web of Atlantic trading routes and solidarity among maritime workers, many of them Black, meant fugitive slaves’ chances of reaching freedom below deck were better than over land.

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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 2d

Individualized Altimetry of Stripes https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/individualized-altimetry-of-stripes-1930

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 6d

Krasznahorkai has said of his work: ‘You will never go wrong anticipating doom in my books, any more than you’ll go wrong in anticipating doom in ordinary life.’

In 2012, we recorded a 94-minute conversation with Colm Tóibín for our Bookshop podcast:

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László Krasznahorkai in conversation with Colm Tóibín | London Review Bookshop

Our first Literary Friendships event brought together Colm Tóibín with his friend László Krasznahorkai. Described by the Guardian as a ‘visionary writer’,…

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 6d

‘His books concern people on the margins, at the edges of empire or of their sanity, and the great powers and promises that exert their centripetal pull.’

Jennifer Szalai on László Krasznahorkai’s Hungarianness, from 2012

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Jennifer Szalai · Where Forty-Eight Avenue joins Petőfi Square: László Krasznahorkai

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Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social · 6d

New article!

'(Im)mobilizing land: Real property and capitalism's spatial processes in twentieth-century Calcutta and Bombay', by Gaurav C. Garg.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.005

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Alex @potentiaspace.bsky.social · 6d

This looks irredeemably awful in every possible way

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Thanks for sharing - this looks terrific

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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 7d

New Harmony https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/new-harmony-1936

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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 8d

Bird Wandering Off https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/bird-wandering-off-1921

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Alex @potentiaspace.bsky.social · 9d

I think that grand slam just landed here in the UK. Unbelievable scenes

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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 10d

Gauze https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/gauze-1940

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 11d

@triofrancos.bsky.social on the astonishing biodiversity in the Atacama Salt Flat and the environmental cost of green capitalism.

What Mining for Water in the Andean Desert Reveals About “Green” Capitalism

A high-altitude desert plateau traverses Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile. I am on the Chilean side, in the passenger seat of a Jeep, along with two other researchers. The afternoon air is thin and b…

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Agenda Publishing @agendapub.bsky.social · 12d

“A chilling and eye-opening exposé... gives voice to those living at the sharpest edge of austerity and makes an irrefutable case for change.”

@graceblakeley.substack.com on 'Debt Trap Nation' by
@kbrickell.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki (out next week).

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#housing #debt

Photo of a pile of books. The books are 'Debt Trap Nation' by Katherine Brickell and Mel Nowicki. Cover image features a woman and small child in a deep concrete basin or pit with no way of climbing out as the ladder is too short.

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 12d

David Harvey at 90: A Verso Series www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/... @versobooks.bsky.social First essay by Eric Sheppard now posted.

Harvey at 90: A Verso Series

Last year, we celebrated Fredric Jameson's ninetieth birthday with a month long series commemorating his impact on literary criticism, critical theory and philosophy. This month, in honour of David H...

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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 14d

North German City https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/484868

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Alex @potentiaspace.bsky.social · 14d

And we now go live to the Arsenal dressing room: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project...

Project Cybersyn - Wikipedia

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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 17d

Late Evening Looking Out of the Woods https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/20162/

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 25d

In "The City of Our Dreaming," the 3rd Alchemy Lecture, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, and @biidaasamose.bsky.social imagine ways to organize city life. Read the intro by @hystericalblkns.bsky.social, for free on our website now! buff.ly/zjH8Y4w

Cover of The City of Our Dreaming by Laleh Khalili, V. Mitch McEwen, Gabriela Leandro Pereira, & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. With an introduction by Christina Sharpe. The title and authors are in a black capsule shape that is slightly offset in the middle, surrounded by a red background. On the left side the words The Alchemy Lecture appear vertically.

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 22d

Fredric Jameson passed one year ago today.

Jameson contributed some of the most important Marxist cultural criticism of the twentieth century. To honor the great writer's life, we've discounted his titles and encourage everyone to read the works he produced in his 90 years.

Fredric Jameson | April 14, 1934 - September 22, 2024

Fredric Jameson contributed some of the most important Marxist cultural criticism of the twentieth century. To honor the great writer's life, we've discounted his titles and encourage everyone to read...

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Tom Gillespie @t-a-gillespie.bsky.social · 23d

'New Urban Frontiers'

This @urbangeography.bsky.social special issue edited by me and @clairemercer.bsky.social has now been published online: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rurb20/4...

A thread on the papers 👇

Urban Geography

New Urban Frontiers. Volume 46, Issue 8 of Urban Geography

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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 23d

This flower wishes to fade https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/hamamet-1914

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