Alex Baker
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Alex Baker
@anomiegeog.bsky.social
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Great new paper from Alex Baker in Antipode
“For a Critical Logistics of Eviction: Producing Property Through Mobility in Cape Town”
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
“For a Critical Logistics of Eviction: Producing Property Through Mobility in Cape Town”
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
For a Critical Logistics of Eviction: Producing Property Through Mobility in Cape Town
Understanding eviction as a positioning of bodies and loss in a property relation, I argue a critical logistical reading may offer a means of describing the capacity to evict within the economic, rac...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
'My latest' an attempt an conceptualizing a critical eviction-logistics as the allocation of loss, at the convergence of mobility race and housing, while trying to follow the moving parts of Eviction in Cape Town (and working within the complexities of a pandemic where eviction was paused):
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I hate it when my family argues about politics at Thanksgiving. My Independent Dad is yelling at my Covenanter cousin for allying with the king while my Fifth Monarchist uncle keeps making cryptic pronouncements about the Book of Daniel, and here I am, a Leveller.
November 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I hate it when my family argues about politics at Thanksgiving. My Independent Dad is yelling at my Covenanter cousin for allying with the king while my Fifth Monarchist uncle keeps making cryptic pronouncements about the Book of Daniel, and here I am, a Leveller.
Would be REALLY good if this country could sort out its trains and ferries together so that missing one connection did not mean there was no other option but to abandon a trip.
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Would be REALLY good if this country could sort out its trains and ferries together so that missing one connection did not mean there was no other option but to abandon a trip.
When the Americans book London for Christmas.
Oz: We thought it was 125 million pounds. Our estimate is Americans will lose 135 billion pounds by the midterms
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
When the Americans book London for Christmas.
Praying for all the adult sons in their 30s in New York City on their next phone call to their mother.
November 5, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Praying for all the adult sons in their 30s in New York City on their next phone call to their mother.
It's sad that the Morning Star, one of the few public organs of the Trade Union movement en masse, so often decides to wade in against the workplace rights of trans people (for what is going to the bathroom safely if not...)
Just days after saying there was no place for transphobia in her new party Zarah Sultana cheered recruiting anti-trans trade unionist Mark Serwotka.
Mark now saying exactly what you'd expect - that he intends to expunge the trans rights movement from Your Party to bring in anti-trans campaigners.
Mark now saying exactly what you'd expect - that he intends to expunge the trans rights movement from Your Party to bring in anti-trans campaigners.
Mark Serwotka, who you campaigned with in Wales, said this in an article in the Morning Star today.
Why are you organising with people like this?
Why are you organising with people like this?
November 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM
It's sad that the Morning Star, one of the few public organs of the Trade Union movement en masse, so often decides to wade in against the workplace rights of trans people (for what is going to the bathroom safely if not...)
When I think about transport for wales
I intend to walk from Sheffield to Holyhead Ferry Terminal
November 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
When I think about transport for wales
If Isaac Chotiner so much as asked me how I was doing I would flee to a safe house,
October 27, 2025 at 11:50 PM
If Isaac Chotiner so much as asked me how I was doing I would flee to a safe house,
Me when it gets dark at 5 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCcA...
Xhosa Commentary Loadshedding | Pumas vs Western Province | Currie Cup 2022
YouTube video by RealmBuild Interactive
www.youtube.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Me when it gets dark at 5 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCcA...
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Listen to this clip of @xazaaradjame.bsky.social in conversation with @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social with Ash Amin, drawing on work for @britishacademy.bsky.social and CIFAR
@michelelancione.bsky.social @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social
@michelelancione.bsky.social @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Listen to this clip of @xazaaradjame.bsky.social in conversation with @itsbethperry.bsky.social and @goodfellowtom.bsky.social with Ash Amin, drawing on work for @britishacademy.bsky.social and CIFAR
@michelelancione.bsky.social @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social
@michelelancione.bsky.social @theurbaninstitute.bsky.social
Water infrastructure in Sheffield appears to have decided that it will take water to strange, new, experimental places.
October 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Water infrastructure in Sheffield appears to have decided that it will take water to strange, new, experimental places.
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"Workhouses in England and Wales linked to transatlantic slave trade, study suggests" -- Antipode authors @williamsapj.bsky.social and Jon May discuss their published work www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... doi.org/10.1111/anti...
Workhouses in England and Wales linked to transatlantic slave trade, study suggests
Report highlights how British workhouses were funded and supported by those who profited from slave economy
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:13 AM
"Workhouses in England and Wales linked to transatlantic slave trade, study suggests" -- Antipode authors @williamsapj.bsky.social and Jon May discuss their published work www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... doi.org/10.1111/anti...
One thing about this stuff is how electorally silly it is. It doesn't appeal to anyone?
just because you have a freedom "doesn't mean you have to use it at every moment of every day"
Just roll that sentence around your mental palate and taste the underlying logic
Just roll that sentence around your mental palate and taste the underlying logic
October 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
One thing about this stuff is how electorally silly it is. It doesn't appeal to anyone?
Actively disgusted by this cynical weaponisation of a tragedy. Opposing a genocide has nothing to do with what happened and I would go so far to say these words are incitement. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Mahmood: Pro-Palestinian protests 'un-British' after terror attack
The home secretary told BBC Breakfast she was disappointed pro-Palestinian protests went ahead.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Actively disgusted by this cynical weaponisation of a tragedy. Opposing a genocide has nothing to do with what happened and I would go so far to say these words are incitement. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society
22% in 2022
47% in 2025
No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.
22% in 2022
47% in 2025
No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.
Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports
Today, 43% of U.S. adults say the fact that sports betting is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, up from 34% in 2022.
www.pewresearch.org
October 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society
22% in 2022
47% in 2025
No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.
22% in 2022
47% in 2025
No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.
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I wrote for the @bostonreview.bsky.social about the extraordinary Andrée Blouin, along with Lumumba, Cesaire, Fanon, and the anticolonial revolution that could have been.
The Inventor of the Future - Boston Review
The autobiography of anticolonial luminary Andrée Blouin captures her era’s euphoric highs as well as its tragic denouement.
www.bostonreview.net
October 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I wrote for the @bostonreview.bsky.social about the extraordinary Andrée Blouin, along with Lumumba, Cesaire, Fanon, and the anticolonial revolution that could have been.
oh GOD of course Blair would come up with the Millenium Dome combined with a War Crime
This is what Blair’s team created together with BCG
September 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
oh GOD of course Blair would come up with the Millenium Dome combined with a War Crime
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all of this stuff is brand new. The reason the Windrush scandal was able to happen was because it was perfectly possible to live, work, and rent in the UK for decades without formal ID. Most of this stuff was brought in because of the manufactured immigration panics of the 2000s-10s.
do people not realise that everyone already legally has to prove right to work in this country, using a combination of ID forms, and any job that currently skirts the law in this is just… gonna keep doing that
September 27, 2025 at 11:17 AM
all of this stuff is brand new. The reason the Windrush scandal was able to happen was because it was perfectly possible to live, work, and rent in the UK for decades without formal ID. Most of this stuff was brought in because of the manufactured immigration panics of the 2000s-10s.
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The vast majority of people do not want any of this. Most of our lives are not animated by spite and revenge and a desire above all else to do harm. Most of us do not derive our sense of well-being from abusing our power over others. Most of us are normal. www.welcometohellworld.com/i-hear-the-g...
September 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The vast majority of people do not want any of this. Most of our lives are not animated by spite and revenge and a desire above all else to do harm. Most of us do not derive our sense of well-being from abusing our power over others. Most of us are normal. www.welcometohellworld.com/i-hear-the-g...
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Believe trans people when we tell you the 'science' behind the Cass Report is as solid as the 'science' behind paracetamol causing autism.
September 23, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Believe trans people when we tell you the 'science' behind the Cass Report is as solid as the 'science' behind paracetamol causing autism.
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This is Australia but holy shit
September 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM
This is Australia but holy shit
Can confirm The Rapture is coming.
THATS RIGHT, COMING TO THE UK ON A REUNION TOUR www.nme.com/news/music/t...
THATS RIGHT, COMING TO THE UK ON A REUNION TOUR www.nme.com/news/music/t...
The Rapture reunite for 2025 tour in the UK, Europe and North America
The Rapture are back for a new tour, which will see them perform across the UK, Europe and North America later this year.
www.nme.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Can confirm The Rapture is coming.
THATS RIGHT, COMING TO THE UK ON A REUNION TOUR www.nme.com/news/music/t...
THATS RIGHT, COMING TO THE UK ON A REUNION TOUR www.nme.com/news/music/t...
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'My latest' an attempt an conceptualizing a critical eviction-logistics as the allocation of loss, at the convergence of mobility race and housing, while trying to follow the moving parts of Eviction in Cape Town (and working within the complexities of a pandemic where eviction was paused):
Great new paper from Alex Baker in Antipode
“For a Critical Logistics of Eviction: Producing Property Through Mobility in Cape Town”
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
“For a Critical Logistics of Eviction: Producing Property Through Mobility in Cape Town”
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
For a Critical Logistics of Eviction: Producing Property Through Mobility in Cape Town
Understanding eviction as a positioning of bodies and loss in a property relation, I argue a critical logistical reading may offer a means of describing the capacity to evict within the economic, rac...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
'My latest' an attempt an conceptualizing a critical eviction-logistics as the allocation of loss, at the convergence of mobility race and housing, while trying to follow the moving parts of Eviction in Cape Town (and working within the complexities of a pandemic where eviction was paused):
The thing is, once an employer has got rid of labour through AI, the company providing AI has them by the throat and can extract whatever rent they think is possible.
September 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
The thing is, once an employer has got rid of labour through AI, the company providing AI has them by the throat and can extract whatever rent they think is possible.
Shareholder capitalism has basically given authoritarians tremendous power. Even if you live in a nominal democracy there's an army of people willing and with standing to sue you if you decide not to work with an Authoritarian overseas who can shut you down in their country.
September 18, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Shareholder capitalism has basically given authoritarians tremendous power. Even if you live in a nominal democracy there's an army of people willing and with standing to sue you if you decide not to work with an Authoritarian overseas who can shut you down in their country.
Old Enough to remember when the destruction of Buddhist monumental architecture in Afghanistan was unequivocal proof of the subhuman barbarity of the regime there.
Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.
My rage knows no bounds
September 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Old Enough to remember when the destruction of Buddhist monumental architecture in Afghanistan was unequivocal proof of the subhuman barbarity of the regime there.