Alex
@potentiaspace.bsky.social
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)
The Autonomous City (New ed. Verso, 2023; Alianza, 2023)
Metropolitan Preoccupations (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
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Ursprünglich wollte sie ja Botanik studieren: #RosaLuxemburg. Die Liebe zur Natur gab ihr immer Kraft, auch in den Jahren ihrer Haft. Ab 1913–1918 legte sie ein umfängliches Herbarium an und füllte 16 Hefte. Viel zu Entdecken für alle Naturfreund:innen: dietzberlin.de//herb...
December 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Ursprünglich wollte sie ja Botanik studieren: #RosaLuxemburg. Die Liebe zur Natur gab ihr immer Kraft, auch in den Jahren ihrer Haft. Ab 1913–1918 legte sie ein umfängliches Herbarium an und füllte 16 Hefte. Viel zu Entdecken für alle Naturfreund:innen: dietzberlin.de//herb...
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Sp26 see a major publishing event: a 20th anniversary ed of Katherine McKittrick's influential DEMONIC GROUNDS: BLACK WOMEN AND THE CARTOGRAPHIES OF STRUGGLE with a foreword by Simone Browne speaking to the long impact an enduring relevance of groundbreaking book.
www.upress.umn.edu/978151792141...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151792141...
December 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Sp26 see a major publishing event: a 20th anniversary ed of Katherine McKittrick's influential DEMONIC GROUNDS: BLACK WOMEN AND THE CARTOGRAPHIES OF STRUGGLE with a foreword by Simone Browne speaking to the long impact an enduring relevance of groundbreaking book.
www.upress.umn.edu/978151792141...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151792141...
Last week, the Oxford Rent Cultures Network screened Andrea Luka Zimmerman's remarkable portrait of the Haggerston Estate - Estate, A Reverie (lux.org.uk/luxplayer/es...) A remarkable elegy to a London that has largely vanished. How we might live the city otherwise remains as urgent as ever
Estate, A Reverie, Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Estate, a Reverie tracks the passing of the Haggerston Estate in Hackney, London and the utopian promise of social housing it offered
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December 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Last week, the Oxford Rent Cultures Network screened Andrea Luka Zimmerman's remarkable portrait of the Haggerston Estate - Estate, A Reverie (lux.org.uk/luxplayer/es...) A remarkable elegy to a London that has largely vanished. How we might live the city otherwise remains as urgent as ever
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Seaside Resort in the South of France http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/klee-seaside-resort-in-the-south-of-france-t06795
December 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Seaside Resort in the South of France http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/klee-seaside-resort-in-the-south-of-france-t06795
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Updates on special issue proposal process(due 1/15/26) and new submission types. Our "Coordinates" section features timely, topical essay forums that orient us in the socio-spatial landscape, and our book review forums got a refresh too. Plz circulate and submit!
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December 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Updates on special issue proposal process(due 1/15/26) and new submission types. Our "Coordinates" section features timely, topical essay forums that orient us in the socio-spatial landscape, and our book review forums got a refresh too. Plz circulate and submit!
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Stage Landscape https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/stage-landscape-1922
December 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Stage Landscape https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/stage-landscape-1922
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Likewise, our understanding of it is also constantly evolving in both positive and negative ways. This book is one more step in telling the story of capital in a way that people can, I hope, understand and use both personally and politically. [3/3]
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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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December 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Likewise, our understanding of it is also constantly evolving in both positive and negative ways. This book is one more step in telling the story of capital in a way that people can, I hope, understand and use both personally and politically. [3/3]
www.versobooks.com/products/337...
www.versobooks.com/products/337...
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including a couple of dry runs of the material in courses taught at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social and the People’s Forum in New York. But, as the coda on the work of Piero Sraffa illustrates, the project is ongoing, indeed never ending. The world is perpetually changing. [2/3]
December 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM
including a couple of dry runs of the material in courses taught at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social and the People’s Forum in New York. But, as the coda on the work of Piero Sraffa illustrates, the project is ongoing, indeed never ending. The world is perpetually changing. [2/3]
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My aim is to look at Marx’s political economy through the lens of a totality in the course of construction through multiple circulation processes all in contradictory motion. That is the story that this book tries to tell. It rests on thirty years of working on the Marx Project, [1/3]
December 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM
My aim is to look at Marx’s political economy through the lens of a totality in the course of construction through multiple circulation processes all in contradictory motion. That is the story that this book tries to tell. It rests on thirty years of working on the Marx Project, [1/3]
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New #Conversation between Alfredo Rodríguez and Ana Sugranyes with Camila Cociña
Twenty years of ‘Los con techo’
A conversation on the unpaid debts of Chile’s housing policy
Read the full text in #openacess at radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/twenty-...
#Housing policy, #Chile, #Conversation
Twenty years of ‘Los con techo’
A conversation on the unpaid debts of Chile’s housing policy
Read the full text in #openacess at radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/twenty-...
#Housing policy, #Chile, #Conversation
Twenty years of ‘Los con techo’ » Radical Housing Journal
Two decades after the publication of the book Los con techo (Those with a roof, 2005), its authors Alfredo Rodríguez and Ana Sugranyes reflect on how this emblematic study of Chile’s social housing mo...
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December 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
New #Conversation between Alfredo Rodríguez and Ana Sugranyes with Camila Cociña
Twenty years of ‘Los con techo’
A conversation on the unpaid debts of Chile’s housing policy
Read the full text in #openacess at radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/twenty-...
#Housing policy, #Chile, #Conversation
Twenty years of ‘Los con techo’
A conversation on the unpaid debts of Chile’s housing policy
Read the full text in #openacess at radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/twenty-...
#Housing policy, #Chile, #Conversation
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Comedians' Handbill https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/483177
December 2, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Comedians' Handbill https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/483177
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In the nineteenth century, British officials became obsessed with collecting and codifying 'secret languages' across northern India.
In our latest article, Vipin Krishna explores how linguistics became a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
In our latest article, Vipin Krishna explores how linguistics became a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
Policing Language in Colonial India
Vipin Krishna explores how colonial officials in nineteenth-century India turned linguistics into a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
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December 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
In the nineteenth century, British officials became obsessed with collecting and codifying 'secret languages' across northern India.
In our latest article, Vipin Krishna explores how linguistics became a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
In our latest article, Vipin Krishna explores how linguistics became a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.
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THE ASSET CLASS, my first book, will be published by @wnbooks.bsky.social on 9 April 2026. It’s a narrative investigation of private equity, a secretive and relentlessly destructive wing of finance that penetrates almost every aspect of our lives - and it’s available to pre-order now!
November 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
THE ASSET CLASS, my first book, will be published by @wnbooks.bsky.social on 9 April 2026. It’s a narrative investigation of private equity, a secretive and relentlessly destructive wing of finance that penetrates almost every aspect of our lives - and it’s available to pre-order now!
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#OtD 29 Nov 1803 the first declaration of independence for Haiti was read in Fort-Dauphin. It was signed by leading Haitian revolutionaries Dessalines, Christophe, and Clerveaux, and began with the words "Liberty, or death". More on global Black struggle: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/a-h...
November 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
#OtD 29 Nov 1803 the first declaration of independence for Haiti was read in Fort-Dauphin. It was signed by leading Haitian revolutionaries Dessalines, Christophe, and Clerveaux, and began with the words "Liberty, or death". More on global Black struggle: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/a-h...
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New #LongRead by Anushka Dasgupta
Dwelling-in-eviction: Improvised practices of inhabiting Dublin’s private rental sector
Read the full text in #openacess: radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/dwellin...
#LongRead #Eviction #HousingPrecarity #Improvisation #Overholding #UrbanStudies #HousingJustice
Dwelling-in-eviction: Improvised practices of inhabiting Dublin’s private rental sector
Read the full text in #openacess: radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/dwellin...
#LongRead #Eviction #HousingPrecarity #Improvisation #Overholding #UrbanStudies #HousingJustice
November 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
New #LongRead by Anushka Dasgupta
Dwelling-in-eviction: Improvised practices of inhabiting Dublin’s private rental sector
Read the full text in #openacess: radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/dwellin...
#LongRead #Eviction #HousingPrecarity #Improvisation #Overholding #UrbanStudies #HousingJustice
Dwelling-in-eviction: Improvised practices of inhabiting Dublin’s private rental sector
Read the full text in #openacess: radicalhousingjournal.org/2025/dwellin...
#LongRead #Eviction #HousingPrecarity #Improvisation #Overholding #UrbanStudies #HousingJustice
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Marx offers a radical critique of capitalism’s ecological devastation. By reading 'Capital' as a "natural history," this book uncovers how Marx viewed capitalism as both a historical and natural system, exploiting Earth's ecosystems.
By Joel Wainwright on @versobooks.bsky.social
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By Joel Wainwright on @versobooks.bsky.social
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The End
In this pathbreaking study, Joel Wainwright shows how deeply Darwin influenced Capital. Marx’s thinking about history and nature changed, generating a distinctive ecological critique of capitalism as…
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November 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Marx offers a radical critique of capitalism’s ecological devastation. By reading 'Capital' as a "natural history," this book uncovers how Marx viewed capitalism as both a historical and natural system, exploiting Earth's ecosystems.
By Joel Wainwright on @versobooks.bsky.social
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By Joel Wainwright on @versobooks.bsky.social
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Pierrot Lunaire https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/pierrot-lunaire-1924
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Pierrot Lunaire https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/pierrot-lunaire-1924
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As we launch our new issue 7.2, we explore the lasting connections between space, time, and housing justice.
Edited by Aysegul Can, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia, Saila Maria Saaristo, Andy Crosby, and Melora Koepke.
Read the editorial below and explore the full issue at radicalhousingjournal.org
Edited by Aysegul Can, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia, Saila Maria Saaristo, Andy Crosby, and Melora Koepke.
Read the editorial below and explore the full issue at radicalhousingjournal.org
The longue durée of housing justice » Radical Housing Journal
This editorial frames housing justice as a question of spatial and temporal struggle, engaging the longue durée of dispossession, endurance, and collective transformation. From the weaponisation of sp...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
As we launch our new issue 7.2, we explore the lasting connections between space, time, and housing justice.
Edited by Aysegul Can, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia, Saila Maria Saaristo, Andy Crosby, and Melora Koepke.
Read the editorial below and explore the full issue at radicalhousingjournal.org
Edited by Aysegul Can, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia, Saila Maria Saaristo, Andy Crosby, and Melora Koepke.
Read the editorial below and explore the full issue at radicalhousingjournal.org
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🎉Issue 7.2 is live!
"The longue durée of housing justice," edited by Aysegul Can, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia, Saila-Maria Saaristo, Melora Koepke, and Andy Crosby.
Read the full issue at radicalhousingjournal.org.
#HousingJustice #UrbanStudies #OpenAccess #SpatialPolitics
"The longue durée of housing justice," edited by Aysegul Can, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia, Saila-Maria Saaristo, Melora Koepke, and Andy Crosby.
Read the full issue at radicalhousingjournal.org.
#HousingJustice #UrbanStudies #OpenAccess #SpatialPolitics
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The Radical Housing Journal (RHJ) is an orientation, a praxis for doing research and action. It seeks to critically intervene in pre and post-crisis housing experiences and activist strategies from ar...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
🎉Issue 7.2 is live!
"The longue durée of housing justice," edited by Aysegul Can, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia, Saila-Maria Saaristo, Melora Koepke, and Andy Crosby.
Read the full issue at radicalhousingjournal.org.
#HousingJustice #UrbanStudies #OpenAccess #SpatialPolitics
"The longue durée of housing justice," edited by Aysegul Can, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitia, Saila-Maria Saaristo, Melora Koepke, and Andy Crosby.
Read the full issue at radicalhousingjournal.org.
#HousingJustice #UrbanStudies #OpenAccess #SpatialPolitics
Next week the Oxford Rent Cultures Network is hosting a screening of Andrea Luka Zimmerman's documentary film Estate, A Reverie. The film explores care, community, and the housing crisis in Britain. Details here: www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/estate...
Estate, a Reverie (Andrea Luka Zimmerman, 2015) – Screening and Discussion
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November 25, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Next week the Oxford Rent Cultures Network is hosting a screening of Andrea Luka Zimmerman's documentary film Estate, A Reverie. The film explores care, community, and the housing crisis in Britain. Details here: www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/estate...
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💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥
We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.
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We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
💥 New publication out on the alignment of AI & authoritarianism 💥
We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We argue that AI is not simply extending, but actively modulating, key dynamics of authoritarianism, and present a flexible analytical framework to account for these changes.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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We are SO excited to be screening Andrea Zimmermann’s Estate, a Reverie next week (4th Dec) as part of our Rent Cultures film series — and even more thrilled that the filmmaker will be joining us!
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Estate, a Reverie (Andrea Luka Zimmerman, 2015) – Screening and Discussion
A screening of Estate, a Reverie with Andrea Luka Zimmerman, exploring care, community, and the housing crisis in Britain.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
We are SO excited to be screening Andrea Zimmermann’s Estate, a Reverie next week (4th Dec) as part of our Rent Cultures film series — and even more thrilled that the filmmaker will be joining us!
www.eventbrite.com/e/estate-a-r...
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In the Current Six Thresholds https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/in-the-current-six-thresholds-1929
November 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
In the Current Six Thresholds https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/in-the-current-six-thresholds-1929
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"The ‘rubble films’ were intended to help make sure none of that could ever happen again, and in that, they are among the many intriguing failures of twentieth century culture." - Owen Hatherley
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Murderers Among Us: Owen Hatherley Picks Over the ‘Rubble Films’ of Post-War East Germany | The Quietus
At least twice, Germany has had among the most influential and important mainstream film industries in the world. First, famously, between 1919 and 1933, German directors, in what was called, not alwa...
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November 23, 2025 at 9:31 AM
"The ‘rubble films’ were intended to help make sure none of that could ever happen again, and in that, they are among the many intriguing failures of twentieth century culture." - Owen Hatherley
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The Weekly Read is "Lexicon for a Capitalist Image" by Pietro Bianchi and Joshua Harold Wiebe. The article introduces Filming Capital, a special issue of SAQ (124:4). Read it for free through 1/31/26: buff.ly/5naaEnu
November 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The Weekly Read is "Lexicon for a Capitalist Image" by Pietro Bianchi and Joshua Harold Wiebe. The article introduces Filming Capital, a special issue of SAQ (124:4). Read it for free through 1/31/26: buff.ly/5naaEnu