Just finished Janet Frame's The Edge of the Alphabet (@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social). Utterly singular. It will stay with me for a long time

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

"The critical Atlantic current system appears significantly more likely to collapse than previously thought"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Flyer with USF Logo for the 2026 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS of the International Fellowships on a Photo by Zeke Tucker

Flyer with USF Logo for the 2026 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS of the International Fellowships, on a blue background, with the following details: Open to early-to-mid-career urban scholars from the Global South; PhD must have been awarded within the last 10 years; Requires a Mentor at your chosen host university; deadline 6 July 2026 at 23:59 UTC +0; Apply online; This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South.

📢 2026 USF International Fellowships - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South.

Deadline: 6 July 2026
Read more & apply : https://ow.ly/ezMb50YILbw

The Warehouse, in Plain Sight That concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture. It’s a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly.

"The warehouse is a place where placelessness is produced. … A concealed infrastructure created by capitalists, adapted by fascists." An important, brilliant piece by @charmainechua.bsky.social
placesjournal.org/article/the-...

#OtD 13 Apr 1906 Irish novelist, poet, and playwright, Samuel Beckett, was born. During the Nazi occupation of France, Beckett joined the French Resistance as a courier. After the war, he was awarded the Croix de guerre and the Médaille de la Résistance for his efforts

On April 13 at the Einaudi Campus, as part of the SegnaLibri initiative, I will have the great pleasure of joining colleagues to discuss my book "For a Liberatory Politics of Home" (@dukepress.bsky.social, 2023)

Thanks to Daniela Leonardi for organising!

Photo of the book Nonauthoritarian Authority

"Absolutely captivating, an inspirational message in a bottle for troubled times."

— Chris Philo, author of Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination

💬Nonauthoritarian Authority is free to read and download: https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.noa

@rgs.org @jbrigstocke.bsky.social

Tom Quad at Christ Church is changing colour. For the first time in 500 years, the college is planting flowers (lavender & germander) around the lawn to increase biodiversity. A lawn in King's College, Cambridge, has been planted as a wildflower meadow since 2020.

www.chch.ox.ac.uk/news/plantin...

Image of a book entitled End Times Fascism - and the fight for the living world. A wide burst on a yellow background with red letters.

One year after our original Guardian essay, Naomi Klein and I are excited to reveal the North American cover of our forthcoming book END TIMES FASCISM - and the Fight for the Living World. It will be on bookshelves on September 15th and is available for pre-order. More details below. bit.ly/4cbLfEr

A picture of the cover of Kathi Weeks's new book, along with an announcement of a webinar conversation between her and Sophie Lewis discussing the book.

I'm thrilled to be hosting an @intellpublics.bsky.social conversation between Kathi Weeks & @reproutopia.bsky.social on Weeks's new @dukepress.bsky.social book "Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures." Monday April 20th at 6:30 PM ET by Zoom webinar. Register here! gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Join the Beyond Inhabitation Lab on April 14th 4pm CEST for our second Spring 2026 seminar.

Dr Irene Peano, “Spatiotemporal interference: Theorizing the materiality of recursion from an archipelago of migrant encampments“

In person and online. For Zoom: polito-it.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Flora on sand

Flora on sand https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/flora-on-sand-1927

Looking forward to reading this!

Congrats on the book!

I am incredibly grateful to Chris Philo for organising a book forum to discuss "Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities". 50 free downloads of "Writing the anticolonial: between postcolonial and decolonial geographies" at...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/B7CBR...

Cover of Revolutions of Capitalism: The Politics of the Event by Maurizio Lazzarato. The cover features a grainy color gradient of purple, orange, and a warm grey. The title appears at the top of the cover in a sans serif white font. The subtitle is below aligned right italicized in a serif font. The author’s name appears in the bottom left in the serif font. The text "translated by Brian Whitener and Geo Maher" is directly to the right in all caps in a sans serif font.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Revolutions of Capitalism" written by Maurizio Lazzarato and translated by Brian Whitener and Geo Maher, which charts a new theory of contemporary capitalism and the politics against it. buff.ly/nonpYNp

Episode 18: Strait Outta Hormuz w/ Laleh Khalili With Laleh Khalili

@lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the logistics of shipping oil and the economics of Iran’s wartime closure of the Strait of Hormuz substack.com/@turbulencep...

Wow!

"It is eerie and jarring to walk around this city and imagine how it used to be Black, and now is not. I never imagined that Oakland would stop being a Black city...would stop feeling like a Black city. How, now, do I deliver the attention this haunted landscape solicits?" — @drbrandi.bsky.social

Multitude in Spinoza and Marxism with Michael Hardt In this recording of an online seminar, Michael Hardt discusses the significance of the concept of 'multitude' for radical philosophy.

Our discussion with Michael Hardt about Spinoza, Marx, and the concept of the Multitude has now been released.
culturepowerpolitics.org/2026/03/30/m...

Just started Janet Frame's The Edge of the Alphabet (@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social) and wow! A remarkable piece of writing

Screenshot of the University at Buffalo Digital Collections page, showing the eight files.

Audio recordings of Foucault's lectures in Buffalo - the 1972 course and part of the 1970 course - are now available online from the University at Buffalo
digital.lib.buffalo.edu/items/browse...
I describe them and how they relate to publications, here
progressivegeographies.com/2026/04/02/f...

Sixteen Writing Tips from Marcus Rediker - Pittsburgh Review of Books Editor's Note: Acclaimed writer and Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh Marcus Rediker has long informally circulated

The writing tips I published one by one here have now been gathered up and published by Ed Simon in the *Pittsburgh Review of Books*. Happy to make them available here:

pghrev.com/sixteen-writ...

Be sure to check out the relatively new PRoB while you are there!

Post-industrial urban change in the UK: A Manchester case study - Geographical Association These resources for A level students and teachers consider urban change in Manchester, UK, and include a guided urban walk around the city centre to explore the nature of this regeneration.

We've worked with the Geographical Association to develop some school learning materials for A-Level students to think through financialisation, displacement, gentrification etc

'Post-industrial urban change in the UK: A Manchester case study'

geography.org.uk/resources/po...

AI data centres can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1°C Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area

*Screams into a void*
"Data centres built to power AIs produce so much heat that they can raise the surface temperature of the land around them by several degrees"
www.newscientist.com/article/2521...

Magical Nominalism A bold and wide-ranging study across centuries, examining the conflict between “conventional” and “magical” nominalism in philosophy, history, aesthetics, political theory, and photography. In this ma...

Martin Jay, Magical Nominalism: The Historical Event, Aesthetic Reechantment, and the Photograph - @uchicagopress.bsky.social, January 2025
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Alexander Kluge ist gestern im Alter von 94 Jahren in München verstorben.

Congrats!!

#OtD 26 Mar 1879 French tapestry maker, anarchist and tenant organiser, Georges Cochon, was born. Targeted for his activism by landlords, he responded to his own eviction by nailing beams across his door in what turned into a five-day siege at his home stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9843...

What's the point of conjunctural analysis? - Matthew Thompson, 2026 With conjunctural approaches to urban research fast proliferating, along with the compounding crises they seek to study, now's the time to ask: what's...

New article out: What's the point of conjunctural analysis?

doi.org/10.1177/2754...