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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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
www.torch.ox.ac.uk
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.
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/...
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!
www.eventbrite.com/e/estate-a-r...
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@potentiaspace.bsky.social
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.
www.eventbrite.com
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...
@torchoxford.bsky.social
@potentiaspace.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/e/estate-a-r...
@torchoxford.bsky.social
@potentiaspace.bsky.social
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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
thequietus.com/culture/film...
thequietus.com/culture/film...
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
thequietus.com/culture/film...
thequietus.com/culture/film...
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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
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‘As with climate change, the focus on consumers deflects scrutiny that should be directed towards industry. Not only do companies help establish false representations of consumer wastefulness, they are themselves waste creators on a gigantic scale.’
Brett Christophers:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brett Christophers:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes
Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
‘As with climate change, the focus on consumers deflects scrutiny that should be directed towards industry. Not only do companies help establish false representations of consumer wastefulness, they are themselves waste creators on a gigantic scale.’
Brett Christophers:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brett Christophers:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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‘By looking back, without any explicit connection to the present, doesn’t “Resistance” run the risk of becoming an exercise in nostalgia? Or does it have something to tell us about our own time?’
Daniel Trilling visits Steve McQueen’s survey of protest photography.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Daniel Trilling visits Steve McQueen’s survey of protest photography.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Daniel Trilling · At Modern Two: Protest Photography
Although the events depicted in Resistance are familiar territory for an exhibition concerned with social history –...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
‘By looking back, without any explicit connection to the present, doesn’t “Resistance” run the risk of becoming an exercise in nostalgia? Or does it have something to tell us about our own time?’
Daniel Trilling visits Steve McQueen’s survey of protest photography.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Daniel Trilling visits Steve McQueen’s survey of protest photography.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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In "Occupied Refuge," @hannobrankamp.bsky.social challenges the view of refugee camps as indispensable safe havens, showing that humanitarian missions often function as militarized occupations that treat camp inhabitants as colonized subjects. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/IwyWW8p
November 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
In "Occupied Refuge," @hannobrankamp.bsky.social challenges the view of refugee camps as indispensable safe havens, showing that humanitarian missions often function as militarized occupations that treat camp inhabitants as colonized subjects. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/IwyWW8p
That will be a hard no
November 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
That will be a hard no
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Daniel Heller-Roazen, Far Calls: On Omens, Slips &
Epiphanies – Zone, September 2025
www.zonebooks.org/books/227-fa...
Epiphanies – Zone, September 2025
www.zonebooks.org/books/227-fa...
Far Calls: On Omens, Slips & Epiphanies - Zone Books
Zone Books
www.zonebooks.org
November 21, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Daniel Heller-Roazen, Far Calls: On Omens, Slips &
Epiphanies – Zone, September 2025
www.zonebooks.org/books/227-fa...
Epiphanies – Zone, September 2025
www.zonebooks.org/books/227-fa...
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The messenger of autumn https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/the-messenger-of-autumn-1922
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The messenger of autumn https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/the-messenger-of-autumn-1922
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Book launch for The Politics of Feeling with @ajsecor.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social @will-davies.bsky.social on 25.11 at 15.00 in London. Details here, last time I checked there were a couple of tickets left
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Book launch for The Politics of Feeling with @ajsecor.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social @will-davies.bsky.social on 25.11 at 15.00 in London. Details here, last time I checked there were a couple of tickets left
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...
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Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood around 1900 - trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen, @versobooks.bsky.social, November 2025
www.versobooks.com/products/323...
www.versobooks.com/products/323...
Berlin Childhood around 1900
Composed in exile in the 1930s and published as a whole only after his death, the miniatures that make up Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood are crystallized images of childhood experienced in a city later...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Walter Benjamin, Berlin Childhood around 1900 - trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen, @versobooks.bsky.social, November 2025
www.versobooks.com/products/323...
www.versobooks.com/products/323...
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November 19, 2025 at 10:36 AM
That has to be up there when it comes to the most remarkable football games I have seen
November 18, 2025 at 10:53 PM
That has to be up there when it comes to the most remarkable football games I have seen
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Colorful Architecture https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/483126
November 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Colorful Architecture https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/483126
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I’m on @thedigradio.bsky.social. We talk about the intertwined histories of capitalism and extraction; the origins of OPEC & new geopolitics of supply chains; what I think about degrowth; green development in the Global South; green economic populism in US; Chinese industrial policy & much more
November 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I’m on @thedigradio.bsky.social. We talk about the intertwined histories of capitalism and extraction; the origins of OPEC & new geopolitics of supply chains; what I think about degrowth; green development in the Global South; green economic populism in US; Chinese industrial policy & much more
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November 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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ICYMI: This spring, we curated a library of 700+ books examining the commitments of people to one another and to the planet, and exemplifying the porch as a shelter for democratic encounter.
Hundreds of books were on the shelf in the U.S. Pavilion at the Biennale. And we also built a bibliography:
Hundreds of books were on the shelf in the U.S. Pavilion at the Biennale. And we also built a bibliography:
November 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
ICYMI: This spring, we curated a library of 700+ books examining the commitments of people to one another and to the planet, and exemplifying the porch as a shelter for democratic encounter.
Hundreds of books were on the shelf in the U.S. Pavilion at the Biennale. And we also built a bibliography:
Hundreds of books were on the shelf in the U.S. Pavilion at the Biennale. And we also built a bibliography:
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“In her radical exploration of water, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson topples anthropocentrism and conventional ontologies to reveal water in all its forms as a powerful decolonizing force that connects us all.”
Congratulations to @biidaasamose.bsky.social, author of Theory of Water!
Congratulations to @biidaasamose.bsky.social, author of Theory of Water!
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social wins the $75K #HilaryWeston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction for Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead, published by Alchemy by Knopf Canada. The prize is supported by The Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation. #WTAwards #canlit
November 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
“In her radical exploration of water, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson topples anthropocentrism and conventional ontologies to reveal water in all its forms as a powerful decolonizing force that connects us all.”
Congratulations to @biidaasamose.bsky.social, author of Theory of Water!
Congratulations to @biidaasamose.bsky.social, author of Theory of Water!
Jaureguiberry Mondion: "Book brings social reproduction theory into conversation with work on precarity"
November 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Jaureguiberry Mondion: "Book brings social reproduction theory into conversation with work on precarity"
Josefina Jaureguiberry Mondion: "housing precarity reproducing intersecting forms of violence"
November 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Josefina Jaureguiberry Mondion: "housing precarity reproducing intersecting forms of violence"