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Alex

@potentiaspace.bsky.social

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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)

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Alex @potentiaspace.bsky.social · 22m

Thanks for sharing - this looks terrific

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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 21h

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

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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Alex @potentiaspace.bsky.social · 3d

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

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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 4d

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

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 5d

@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 · 6d

“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).

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/debt...

#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 · 6d

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 · 7d

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

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Alex @potentiaspace.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 10d

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

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 19d

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 · 16d

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 · 16d

'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 · 17d

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

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

House on the Water https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/house-on-the-water-1930

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Alex @potentiaspace.bsky.social · 18d

Cheers, sorry to miss you in Malmö

Alex @potentiaspace.bsky.social · 18d

And in Roskilde the day after: graspfestival.dk/en/programme...

Spatial Justice and the Makeshift City

Designing Liveability from Below

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Alex @potentiaspace.bsky.social · 18d

Looking forward to speaking in Mälmo at the Institute for Urban Research next Wednesday: www.iuresearch.se/event/radica...

Radical Care-work and the Livable City: Revisiting the History of Urban Squatting - Institute for Urban Research

Speaker: Alex Vasudevan (University of Oxford) In-person at Niagara C0826 and on Zoom. This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar Series. If you have any questions, please contact Defne Kadiogl...

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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 18d

Rhythmic (Rythmical) https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/rhythmic-rythmical-1930

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Alex @potentiaspace.bsky.social · 19d

Congrats, that's fantastic news!

Alex @potentiaspace.bsky.social · 19d

Amazing rugby result for Canada!

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ijurresearch.bsky.social @ijurresearch.bsky.social · 19d

📢 The September Issue of IJURR is out!

Explore cutting-edge research on urban politics, housing, mobility, inequality, and resistance from across the globe.

🔗 Read the full issue here: www.ijurr.org/issue/vol-49...

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Alex @potentiaspace.bsky.social · 19d

Looking forward to speaking at the GRASP festival in Roskilde next Thursday. Details here: graspfestival.dk/en/programme...

Spatial Justice and the Makeshift City

Designing Liveability from Below

graspfestival.dk

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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · 19d

My next book, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works, will be published on 24 February 2026 by @versobooks.bsky.social

www.versobooks.com/products/337...

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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