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Johan Pries @johanpries.bsky.social · 4h

Radical geographers and critical engineer friends, please share this just announced position wide and far: salaried four year phd at Lund University, Sweden, in critical infrastructure studies focused on supply chains and systemic risks. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Johan Pries @johanpries.bsky.social · 2d

Nb. Gamla Lunds årsbok 2025, "Arbetarnas Lund", red. Lars Edgren: gamlalund.se/gamla-lunds-...

Gamla Lunds årsbok – Gamla Lund

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Johan Pries @johanpries.bsky.social · 2d

Want to read about this? Alva Zalar and I will have a chapter out on Lunds People's park soon. If you read Swedish we have an article about the Lund park in the most recent issue of Arbetarhistoria, as well as a shorter piece by me in Gamla Lunds Årsbok 2025. www.arbetarhistoria.se/product/plat...

Platser & minnen – Arbetarhistoria

www.arbetarhistoria.se

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Johan Pries @johanpries.bsky.social · 2d

Finally back to writing on what should be the last major piece on our People's Park research, after six weeks of teaching and grant applications. Going through recent photos, and found a few ones with appropriate autumn vibes of Bengt Edman's brick brutalist People's Park cultural center in Lund...

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Johan Pries @johanpries.bsky.social · 3d

Blott sverige svensk kanel har.

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Johan Pries @johanpries.bsky.social · 4d

Incredibly lucid account of our conjuncture's origins and political stakes.

Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 7d

New @thedigradio.bsky.social: first of two w @melindacooper.bsky.social on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. How neoliberalism remade US capitalism into an engine for endless asset appreciation, and the attendant reactionary politics www.thedigradio.com/podcast/coun...

Counterrevolution w/ Melinda Cooper

Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Neoliberalism remade the American economy into an engine for the appreciation of assets stretching from the...

www.thedigradio.com

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Johan Pries @johanpries.bsky.social · 4d

Den heter "porten till Malmö" är jag rätt säker på, och 1986 kan absolut stämma vad gäller år. Rätt säker på att det idén kom till under första Ollén-åren. Någonstans där började de första tankarna kring det som blir Entré också tar form.

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Flamman @flamman.se · 5d

Från Nixons bandspelare till Trumps twitterflöde: lögnen har alltid varit maktens redskap.

”One battle after another” visar glidningen från kalla krigets övertygelse till vår tids tomma spektakel, skriver @johanpries.bsky.social.

www.flamman.se/vad-pynchons...

Vad Pynchons paranoia kan lära oss om Trump

”One battle after another” lär anses som Paul Thomas Andersons bästa film.

www.flamman.se

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Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 11d

It was a true honor to talk to legendary political scientist Adam Przeworski about how he understands the present crisis, what he learned from Chile and Poland, and how to move forward from here www.dissentmagazine.org/article/how-...

How Democracies Fall Apart - Dissent Magazine

An interview with Adam Przeworski.

www.dissentmagazine.org

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Johan Pries @johanpries.bsky.social · 9d

Snarare är problemet att de som styr partierna ofta inte verkar förstå hur partipolitik funkar. Stuart Hall hade ju ett mycket enkelt och mycket Gramscianskt svar som borde duga annars: "Politics does not reflect majorities, it constructs them"... www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/4...

Blue Election, Election Blues

The following is an extract from Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left, available to purchase from Verso. Thatcherism's third term was not unexpected, but the reality of it i...

www.versobooks.com

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Johan Pries @johanpries.bsky.social · 9d

Inte för att citera Carlyle före frukost, men det är väl ändå en ganska etablerad idé att pressen är en makthavaren och det är en dygd såväl som i dess intresse att även när det blir kass stämning i den verkliga världens gyttjebrottning alltid upprätthålla skiljelinjen kritisk debatt kontra censur?

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 13d

ICE shooter Joshua Jahn's politics aren't what's being reported, three longtime former friends tell me.

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...

The ICE Shooter’s Motive

Joshua Jahn's friends speak

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Johan Pries @johanpries.bsky.social · 16d

Maybe it's time to revisit some of the folks of the 1920s calculation debate inte heterodox economic histories series, like Otto Neurath or Hayek for that matter?

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Johan Pries @johanpries.bsky.social · 18d

Huge congrats!

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Johan Pries @johanpries.bsky.social · 19d

Se även: fdestribute.com/product/soci...

Socialist Modernism Book – Socialist Modernism in the Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia) – LAST COPIES!

”Socialist Modernism in the Caucasus”, the tenth architectural guide/photo album of our planned series, will be available in 800 copies after the 26 January. The architectural guide/photo album includ...

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Johan Pries @johanpries.bsky.social · 19d

Tyvärr inte lyckats ta mig till något av ställena, men om man gillar modern arkitektur anses båda vara pärlor väl värda en omväg. Bra ställe att börja snoka på: www.kathmanduandbeyond.com/architectoni...

Soviet-era architecture and monuments in Georgia | Architectonic

Photographs of Soviet-era architecture, buildings, monuments, memorials and mosaics in Georgia. Part of our Architectonic project.

www.kathmanduandbeyond.com

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Johan Pries @johanpries.bsky.social · 19d

The first high-rises of Lund. Helge Zimdahl, 1958-60. There are three of these cooperatively owned buildings hovering above the villas of the most push area of the city in what used to be the gardens of the Bishop's faux tudor castle-like estate (parts of the gardens are preserved as a public park).

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 20d

🚨 New on Substack, my post on Dawson's Heights, Kate Macintosh's masterpiece:
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/dawsons-he...

Dawson’s Heights, East Dulwich: ‘an example of the almost-lost art of romantic townscape’

Kate Macintosh designed Dawson’s Heights back in the Sixties when she was just 28 years old.

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ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social · 21d

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Exclusive: Leaked Messages from Charlie Kirk Assassin

Accused shooter’s “politics” is not what government and media say

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Kristoffer Ekberg @krekberg.bsky.social · 22d

New paper, on environmental protests, infrastructure and the values connected to car-use.

Petroculture, safety and security – frame contestations in the environmental protest against Scan-Link 1984–1988

To plan for a sustainable transportation network, we need to understand the values connected to existing structures. In the history of car dependency and petroculture, the promise of speed is every...

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profpetercole.bsky.social @profpetercole.bsky.social · 29d

Zohran Mamdani wins the internet for the day and probably the week and month. Spoiler alert: the super rich are unhappy that Mamdani will win in a landslide

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 29d

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

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Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social · 29d

I'm excited to share the final cover for Silicon Empires and very grateful for the kind words that others have offered. Pre-order here: www.amazon.co.uk/Silicon-Empi...

"This is a sobering but essential, must-read book. It lays bare the economic dynamics that are driving the development of AI and sheds new light on who will control its future, using which business practices and geopolitical strategies and towards which ends." -Helga Nowotny, Emerita of Science and Technology Studies, ETH Zurich, and former President of the European Research Council

"Silicon Empires pulls back the curtain on the AI gold rush, tracking how chips, clouds and capital are marshalled by tech titans and rival states to lock down tomorrow’s power and profits. With clear, panoramic insight, Srnicek slices through the hype to show who wins, who loses; and why the future of AI should belong to all of us." -Mark Graham, Oxford University

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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · Sep 3

Great piece

Kai Heron @kaiheron.bsky.social · Sep 3

This piece is now free to read. @kmilb.bsky.social, @bertrussell.bsky.social and I argue that popular power and social property - rather than merely nationalisation - are important goals for working class struggles today. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/the-...

The Slow Reappearance of the Future

In a world where economic stagnation and ecological deterioration threaten our very existence, we need to envisage a socialist transition based on the radical democratisation of utilities and governan...

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Johan Pries @johanpries.bsky.social · Aug 26

Bra utställning och intressant text.

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Johan Pries @johanpries.bsky.social · Aug 25

Vad V tyvärr inte har lyckats härma från S är deras extremt disciplinerade sätt att hantera interna konflikter. Väldigt svårt att se att en fraktion inom S som använde DNs ledarsida för att sköta sina uteslutningsärenden skulle tillåtas vinna kontroll av den organisationslojalistiska majoriteten.

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