Antoine Paccoud
@douccap.bsky.social
Geographer at LISER, Luxembourg. Works on the libidinal economy of land and housing, buy-to-let gentrification, Badiou, Lacan, Deleuze & Guattari. More words here: https://propertiedperversity.wordpress.com/
New open access paper with Rory Coulter
Leasing space through the private rented sector: The intersections of class and tenure change in London, 2011–2021
doi.org/10.1177/0042...
The distribution of populations in cities is increasingly tied to the strategies of property investors and developers
Leasing space through the private rented sector: The intersections of class and tenure change in London, 2011–2021
doi.org/10.1177/0042...
The distribution of populations in cities is increasingly tied to the strategies of property investors and developers
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New open access paper with Rory Coulter
Leasing space through the private rented sector: The intersections of class and tenure change in London, 2011–2021
doi.org/10.1177/0042...
The distribution of populations in cities is increasingly tied to the strategies of property investors and developers
Leasing space through the private rented sector: The intersections of class and tenure change in London, 2011–2021
doi.org/10.1177/0042...
The distribution of populations in cities is increasingly tied to the strategies of property investors and developers
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf my co-organisers, I am writing to invite abstract submissions for the ‘Re-centring land conflicts in the post-globalisation order’ mini-conference (MC11) as part of the SASE 2026 Conference in Bordeaux (1-3 July).
sase.org/events/2026-...
Deadline: December 16th
On behalf my co-organisers, I am writing to invite abstract submissions for the ‘Re-centring land conflicts in the post-globalisation order’ mini-conference (MC11) as part of the SASE 2026 Conference in Bordeaux (1-3 July).
sase.org/events/2026-...
Deadline: December 16th
October 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf my co-organisers, I am writing to invite abstract submissions for the ‘Re-centring land conflicts in the post-globalisation order’ mini-conference (MC11) as part of the SASE 2026 Conference in Bordeaux (1-3 July).
sase.org/events/2026-...
Deadline: December 16th
On behalf my co-organisers, I am writing to invite abstract submissions for the ‘Re-centring land conflicts in the post-globalisation order’ mini-conference (MC11) as part of the SASE 2026 Conference in Bordeaux (1-3 July).
sase.org/events/2026-...
Deadline: December 16th
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🎥 Breaking the Deadlock: Evidence and Collaboration for Housing Reform, featuring:
Michel-Edouard Ruben (Fondation Idea)
Ketty Dorla (IKO Real Estate)
Antoine Paccoud (LISER)
Paulette Lenert (Member of Parliament)
Luc Biever (Ministry of Housing and Spatial Planning)
▶️https://youtu.be/V4QGqgZtFHk
Michel-Edouard Ruben (Fondation Idea)
Ketty Dorla (IKO Real Estate)
Antoine Paccoud (LISER)
Paulette Lenert (Member of Parliament)
Luc Biever (Ministry of Housing and Spatial Planning)
▶️https://youtu.be/V4QGqgZtFHk
Society in Motion | Breaking the Deadlock: Evidence and Collaboration for Housing Reform | LISER
YouTube video by Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)
youtu.be
October 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM
🎥 Breaking the Deadlock: Evidence and Collaboration for Housing Reform, featuring:
Michel-Edouard Ruben (Fondation Idea)
Ketty Dorla (IKO Real Estate)
Antoine Paccoud (LISER)
Paulette Lenert (Member of Parliament)
Luc Biever (Ministry of Housing and Spatial Planning)
▶️https://youtu.be/V4QGqgZtFHk
Michel-Edouard Ruben (Fondation Idea)
Ketty Dorla (IKO Real Estate)
Antoine Paccoud (LISER)
Paulette Lenert (Member of Parliament)
Luc Biever (Ministry of Housing and Spatial Planning)
▶️https://youtu.be/V4QGqgZtFHk
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👏 Congrats to Dr. Madalina MEZAROS who successfully defended her PhD thesis "Property, Policy, & Place: #Housing #Inequality & #Gentrification Dynamics in #Luxembourg"
👩🎓 @madalinamez.bsky.social was awarded a #PhD degree in #Geography from @uni.lu
🙏 Kudos to supervisor @douccap.bsky.social & jury!
👩🎓 @madalinamez.bsky.social was awarded a #PhD degree in #Geography from @uni.lu
🙏 Kudos to supervisor @douccap.bsky.social & jury!
October 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
👏 Congrats to Dr. Madalina MEZAROS who successfully defended her PhD thesis "Property, Policy, & Place: #Housing #Inequality & #Gentrification Dynamics in #Luxembourg"
👩🎓 @madalinamez.bsky.social was awarded a #PhD degree in #Geography from @uni.lu
🙏 Kudos to supervisor @douccap.bsky.social & jury!
👩🎓 @madalinamez.bsky.social was awarded a #PhD degree in #Geography from @uni.lu
🙏 Kudos to supervisor @douccap.bsky.social & jury!
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📢 Upcoming Seminar at LISER
Join us on 16 October 2025 for an engaging seminar with Prof. Dr. Desiree Fields (UC Berkeley).
📍 Location: LISER, Maison des Sciences Humaines, Belval
🗓️ Date & Time: 16 October 2025, 11:00 – 12:30
🔗 Learn more & register here: www.liser.lu/events/RSSUD...
Join us on 16 October 2025 for an engaging seminar with Prof. Dr. Desiree Fields (UC Berkeley).
📍 Location: LISER, Maison des Sciences Humaines, Belval
🗓️ Date & Time: 16 October 2025, 11:00 – 12:30
🔗 Learn more & register here: www.liser.lu/events/RSSUD...
September 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
📢 Upcoming Seminar at LISER
Join us on 16 October 2025 for an engaging seminar with Prof. Dr. Desiree Fields (UC Berkeley).
📍 Location: LISER, Maison des Sciences Humaines, Belval
🗓️ Date & Time: 16 October 2025, 11:00 – 12:30
🔗 Learn more & register here: www.liser.lu/events/RSSUD...
Join us on 16 October 2025 for an engaging seminar with Prof. Dr. Desiree Fields (UC Berkeley).
📍 Location: LISER, Maison des Sciences Humaines, Belval
🗓️ Date & Time: 16 October 2025, 11:00 – 12:30
🔗 Learn more & register here: www.liser.lu/events/RSSUD...
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Lydie Polfer lehnt ein Gebäuderegister für die Hauptstadt ab. Damit stößt die DP-Politikerin nicht nur ihren Parteikollegen Claude Meisch vor den Kopf. Ihre Haltung torpediert die Regierungspläne zur Einführung einer Leerstandsteuer – und könnte noch andere Folgen haben.
Leerstand in der Hauptstadt: Lydie Polfer auf Konfrontationskurs - Reporter.lu
Lydie Polfer lehnt ein Gebäuderegister für die Hauptstadt ab. Damit stößt die DP-Politikerin nicht nur ihren Parteikollegen Claude Meisch vor den Kopf. Ihre Haltung torpediert die Regierungspläne zur ...
www.reporter.lu
September 10, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Lydie Polfer lehnt ein Gebäuderegister für die Hauptstadt ab. Damit stößt die DP-Politikerin nicht nur ihren Parteikollegen Claude Meisch vor den Kopf. Ihre Haltung torpediert die Regierungspläne zur Einführung einer Leerstandsteuer – und könnte noch andere Folgen haben.
Not sure the sadism is performative!
Perverse practices are constructed and repeated so as to give back to the Other (America) that which it is thought to be missing, the object a at the heart of the subject (greatness). A double imaginary move to legitimise cruelty and the pleasure it provides.
Perverse practices are constructed and repeated so as to give back to the Other (America) that which it is thought to be missing, the object a at the heart of the subject (greatness). A double imaginary move to legitimise cruelty and the pleasure it provides.
New in PN: Potemkin village populism
"Unlike the fake villages Potemkin erected, Trump’s theaters of cruelty are not harmless diversions. And while he imagines Americans cheering him, his performative sadism is only a winning strategy in his own mind. In reality, he’s becoming more & more reviled."
"Unlike the fake villages Potemkin erected, Trump’s theaters of cruelty are not harmless diversions. And while he imagines Americans cheering him, his performative sadism is only a winning strategy in his own mind. In reality, he’s becoming more & more reviled."
Potemkin village populism
Trump thinks he's fooling the public, but he's only deceiving himself.
www.publicnotice.co
September 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Not sure the sadism is performative!
Perverse practices are constructed and repeated so as to give back to the Other (America) that which it is thought to be missing, the object a at the heart of the subject (greatness). A double imaginary move to legitimise cruelty and the pleasure it provides.
Perverse practices are constructed and repeated so as to give back to the Other (America) that which it is thought to be missing, the object a at the heart of the subject (greatness). A double imaginary move to legitimise cruelty and the pleasure it provides.
Sadism, the perverse subjective structure that is an essential infrastructure to the maintenance and legitimation of capitalist domination:
…I don’t care about ameliorating my own wellbeing as long as ‘the others’ get only what they ‘deserve’…
…I don’t care about ameliorating my own wellbeing as long as ‘the others’ get only what they ‘deserve’…
Hard to get into the heads of the sadists at the Home Office who sat round drawing up a list of "luxuries". Just one more method of humiliating some of the most vulnerable people. No doubt the unemployed will be next.
Home Office bans asylum seekers from buying luxury goods and services
Purchase of snowmobiles, timeshares and furs prohibited, despite asylum seekers receiving only £9.95 a week
www.theguardian.com
August 31, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Sadism, the perverse subjective structure that is an essential infrastructure to the maintenance and legitimation of capitalist domination:
…I don’t care about ameliorating my own wellbeing as long as ‘the others’ get only what they ‘deserve’…
…I don’t care about ameliorating my own wellbeing as long as ‘the others’ get only what they ‘deserve’…
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Anyone up for some fieldwork to see if these 146 properties are still vacant?
Un peu de travail de terrain pour voir si ces 146 biens sont toujours inoccupés ?
leerstandsmelder.de/region/luxem...
Un peu de travail de terrain pour voir si ces 146 biens sont toujours inoccupés ?
leerstandsmelder.de/region/luxem...
Leerstandsmelder
leerstandsmelder.de
August 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Anyone up for some fieldwork to see if these 146 properties are still vacant?
Un peu de travail de terrain pour voir si ces 146 biens sont toujours inoccupés ?
leerstandsmelder.de/region/luxem...
Un peu de travail de terrain pour voir si ces 146 biens sont toujours inoccupés ?
leerstandsmelder.de/region/luxem...
Anyone up for some fieldwork to see if these 146 properties are still vacant?
Un peu de travail de terrain pour voir si ces 146 biens sont toujours inoccupés ?
leerstandsmelder.de/region/luxem...
Un peu de travail de terrain pour voir si ces 146 biens sont toujours inoccupés ?
leerstandsmelder.de/region/luxem...
Leerstandsmelder
leerstandsmelder.de
August 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Anyone up for some fieldwork to see if these 146 properties are still vacant?
Un peu de travail de terrain pour voir si ces 146 biens sont toujours inoccupés ?
leerstandsmelder.de/region/luxem...
Un peu de travail de terrain pour voir si ces 146 biens sont toujours inoccupés ?
leerstandsmelder.de/region/luxem...
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I'm glad people are starting to use the word 'sadism'.
because that is what this is.
because that is what this is.
Remarkable point from @simonwdc.bsky.social here: The sheer unbridled sadism and dehumanization that Trump is unleashing on countless Americans and immigrants alike has to be a major part of what Dems campaign against from here on out.
Our exchange on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1976...
Our exchange on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1976...
July 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I'm glad people are starting to use the word 'sadism'.
because that is what this is.
because that is what this is.
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📣 BOOK "The Political Economy of Housing: The Case of Turkey" authored by LISER researcher @sila-demirors.bsky.social
ℹ️ Prof. Demirörs explores the analytical & historical process of how #housing, becomes an instrument of speculative finance to feed itself.
🔗 brill.com/display/titl...
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ℹ️ Prof. Demirörs explores the analytical & historical process of how #housing, becomes an instrument of speculative finance to feed itself.
🔗 brill.com/display/titl...
1/3
June 26, 2025 at 7:00 AM
📣 BOOK "The Political Economy of Housing: The Case of Turkey" authored by LISER researcher @sila-demirors.bsky.social
ℹ️ Prof. Demirörs explores the analytical & historical process of how #housing, becomes an instrument of speculative finance to feed itself.
🔗 brill.com/display/titl...
1/3
ℹ️ Prof. Demirörs explores the analytical & historical process of how #housing, becomes an instrument of speculative finance to feed itself.
🔗 brill.com/display/titl...
1/3
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🔎 Discover a NEW book review forum in the summer issue of IJHP
📘 Review by Prof. Zacarés @harveymurenow.bsky.social :
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📘 Review by Prof. Berry:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
💡 Prof. Demirörs' response: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
2/3
📘 Review by Prof. Zacarés @harveymurenow.bsky.social :
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📘 Review by Prof. Berry:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
💡 Prof. Demirörs' response: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
2/3
The political economy of housing: the case of Turkey
Published in International Journal of Housing Policy (Vol. 25, No. 3, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
June 26, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🔎 Discover a NEW book review forum in the summer issue of IJHP
📘 Review by Prof. Zacarés @harveymurenow.bsky.social :
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📘 Review by Prof. Berry:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
💡 Prof. Demirörs' response: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
2/3
📘 Review by Prof. Zacarés @harveymurenow.bsky.social :
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📘 Review by Prof. Berry:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
💡 Prof. Demirörs' response: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
2/3
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Lovely day in Luxembourg then Dudelange then across border into France today with @douccap.bsky.social & @madalinamez.bsky.social learnt so much 😊
June 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Lovely day in Luxembourg then Dudelange then across border into France today with @douccap.bsky.social & @madalinamez.bsky.social learnt so much 😊
Sous les tam-tams sadique et masochiste, il y a bien la répétition comme puissance terrible […] Au lieu que la répétition soit commandée par l’idée d’un plaisir à retrouver ou à obtenir, voilà que la répétition se déchaîne, est devenue indépendante de tout plaisir préalable.
June 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Sous les tam-tams sadique et masochiste, il y a bien la répétition comme puissance terrible […] Au lieu que la répétition soit commandée par l’idée d’un plaisir à retrouver ou à obtenir, voilà que la répétition se déchaîne, est devenue indépendante de tout plaisir préalable.
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@madalinamez.bsky.social , @douccap.bsky.social and I in the Luxembourg papers for our recent @urbanstudiesjournal.com paper
June 13, 2025 at 11:56 AM
@madalinamez.bsky.social , @douccap.bsky.social and I in the Luxembourg papers for our recent @urbanstudiesjournal.com paper
Rien n’est plus étranger au sadique qu’une intention de persuader ou de convaincre […] Il s’agit de tout autre chose. Il s’agit de montrer que le raisonnement est lui-même une violence, qu’il est du côté des violents, avec toute sa rigueur, toute sa sérénité, tout son calme.
Deleuze, Sacher-Masoch
Deleuze, Sacher-Masoch
June 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Rien n’est plus étranger au sadique qu’une intention de persuader ou de convaincre […] Il s’agit de tout autre chose. Il s’agit de montrer que le raisonnement est lui-même une violence, qu’il est du côté des violents, avec toute sa rigueur, toute sa sérénité, tout son calme.
Deleuze, Sacher-Masoch
Deleuze, Sacher-Masoch
“One can find the form of social alienation in action in all the reterritorializations of capitalism, inasmuch as they keep the flows from escaping the system, and maintain labor in the axiomatic framework of property”.
Deleuze & Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, 320
Deleuze & Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, 320
June 3, 2025 at 6:54 AM
“One can find the form of social alienation in action in all the reterritorializations of capitalism, inasmuch as they keep the flows from escaping the system, and maintain labor in the axiomatic framework of property”.
Deleuze & Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, 320
Deleuze & Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, 320
“If we have been able to speak of the intrinsically perverted nature of psychoanalysis, this is due to the fact that perversion in general is the artificial reterritorialization of the flows of desire, whose machines on the contrary are indices of deterritorialized production.”
D&G Anti-Oedipus 314
D&G Anti-Oedipus 314
May 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
“If we have been able to speak of the intrinsically perverted nature of psychoanalysis, this is due to the fact that perversion in general is the artificial reterritorialization of the flows of desire, whose machines on the contrary are indices of deterritorialized production.”
D&G Anti-Oedipus 314
D&G Anti-Oedipus 314
“A medical student who wants to be admitted to the medical profession must offer satisfactory proof of his practical and theoretical knowledge of medicine [..] Every shoemaker, cabinet-maker, turner, mechanic, electrician, stone mason, construction worker, etc., has to fulfil strict requirements…
April 14, 2025 at 8:48 PM
“A medical student who wants to be admitted to the medical profession must offer satisfactory proof of his practical and theoretical knowledge of medicine [..] Every shoemaker, cabinet-maker, turner, mechanic, electrician, stone mason, construction worker, etc., has to fulfil strict requirements…
“Political irrationalism, which plagues, disfigures and destroys our life, is, in the true psychiatric sense of the word, a perversion of social life, a perversion brought about by the failure to recognize the natural functions of life”
April 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
“Political irrationalism, which plagues, disfigures and destroys our life, is, in the true psychiatric sense of the word, a perversion of social life, a perversion brought about by the failure to recognize the natural functions of life”
If, now, such a self-encapsulated person meets a propagandist who works with faith and mysticism, meets, in other words, a fascist who works with sexual, libidinous methods, he turns his complete attention to him. This is not because the fascist programme makes a greater impression on him than..
April 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
If, now, such a self-encapsulated person meets a propagandist who works with faith and mysticism, meets, in other words, a fascist who works with sexual, libidinous methods, he turns his complete attention to him. This is not because the fascist programme makes a greater impression on him than..