Johan Pries
@johanpries.bsky.social
Teaching and writing university worker. Interested in urban planning, radical democracy, popular movements and what world might be built in neoliberal ruins. Based in Norra Fäladen, Lund, Sweden.
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Reading Marx and drinking Guinness
How is David Harvey more lucid at 90 than almost any person I've ever met?
Behind the News: How Capital Works w/ David Harvey
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February 10, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Reading Marx and drinking Guinness
First time visiting the Hägerstensåsens Medborgahus/People's House today. It was packed to the brim by people who all had come to hear Wendy Brown lecture on post-liberalism from the left. Very interesting argument that will take some time to fully process, and great to catch up with old friends.
February 7, 2026 at 7:17 PM
First time visiting the Hägerstensåsens Medborgahus/People's House today. It was packed to the brim by people who all had come to hear Wendy Brown lecture on post-liberalism from the left. Very interesting argument that will take some time to fully process, and great to catch up with old friends.
Fully salaried PhD position in Human Geography with KEG at Lund U. Please circulate among interested students with a relevant Ma degree. Formally not allowed to give individual advice on applications, but feel free to ask questions about the department and our research. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
1-2 Doctoral studentships in human geography
Job assignments: The doctoral candidate program amounts to 240 credits (equivalent to four years of full-time study). It formally ends with the doctoral candidate publicly defending his/her printed do
lu.varbi.com
February 5, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Fully salaried PhD position in Human Geography with KEG at Lund U. Please circulate among interested students with a relevant Ma degree. Formally not allowed to give individual advice on applications, but feel free to ask questions about the department and our research. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Underappreciated fact: The Great Transformation studies the rise of fascism. I have learned so much from revisiting this classic for my work on anti-fascist economics.
Truly honored to be this year's Karl Polanyi Visiting Professor. See you in Vienna in June!
Truly honored to be this year's Karl Polanyi Visiting Professor. See you in Vienna in June!
February 3, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Underappreciated fact: The Great Transformation studies the rise of fascism. I have learned so much from revisiting this classic for my work on anti-fascist economics.
Truly honored to be this year's Karl Polanyi Visiting Professor. See you in Vienna in June!
Truly honored to be this year's Karl Polanyi Visiting Professor. See you in Vienna in June!
NYT-centrist like Ezra Klein leading with a Gramsci qoute? Morbid symptoms, indeed! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gR7...
How The World Sees America, with Adam Tooze | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
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January 31, 2026 at 9:37 AM
NYT-centrist like Ezra Klein leading with a Gramsci qoute? Morbid symptoms, indeed! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gR7...
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“The scenario is not so far from that deservedly famous line of Margaret Atwood’s: men fear women laughing at them. Women fear men killing them, because she dared to laugh at him.”
We can’t ignore the gendered dynamics of what we just saw katemanne.substack.com/p/renee-good...
Renee Good’s Murder was Misogyny
We cannot ignore the distinctively gendered dynamics of this—and much other—fascist violence
katemanne.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 1:17 PM
“The scenario is not so far from that deservedly famous line of Margaret Atwood’s: men fear women laughing at them. Women fear men killing them, because she dared to laugh at him.”
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“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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January 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Out just before dawn to try to capture some neo-neobrutliast early 00s architecture in my neighbourhood in the snow + holiday lights.
January 7, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Out just before dawn to try to capture some neo-neobrutliast early 00s architecture in my neighbourhood in the snow + holiday lights.
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This article investigates the sociality of Scandinavian public swimming halls through Jean-Paul Sartre’s reworking of Marxist alienation as seriality. Drawing on fifty-nine narratives, it explores behaviors of mutual semi-unawareness in settings involving (partial) nudity among strangers.
Space for Alienation: Seriality (or Being Alone Together) in the Swimming Hall
This article investigates the sociality of Scandinavian public swimming halls through Jean-Paul Sartre’s reworking of Marxist alienation as seriality. Drawing on fifty-nine personal narratives, it ...
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January 7, 2026 at 9:43 AM
This article investigates the sociality of Scandinavian public swimming halls through Jean-Paul Sartre’s reworking of Marxist alienation as seriality. Drawing on fifty-nine narratives, it explores behaviors of mutual semi-unawareness in settings involving (partial) nudity among strangers.
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Lossmen–Ekträsk-konflikten är Sverige längsta lockout. Det är en hundraårshändelse i svensk arbetarhistoria. Ingen arbetsplatskonflikt, har oss veterligen, pågått längre.
Jag och @johanpries.bsky.social skriver idag om konflikten som pågick mellan 1924 – 1931
www.arbetaren.se/2025/12/18/s...
Jag och @johanpries.bsky.social skriver idag om konflikten som pågick mellan 1924 – 1931
www.arbetaren.se/2025/12/18/s...
Sveriges längsta lockout slutade med syndikalistisk seger
Lockouten av syndikalistiska skogsarbetare i Lossmen-Ekträsk pågick mellan 1924 och 1931 • Vad hände egentligen under de dramatiska åren?
www.arbetaren.se
December 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Lossmen–Ekträsk-konflikten är Sverige längsta lockout. Det är en hundraårshändelse i svensk arbetarhistoria. Ingen arbetsplatskonflikt, har oss veterligen, pågått längre.
Jag och @johanpries.bsky.social skriver idag om konflikten som pågick mellan 1924 – 1931
www.arbetaren.se/2025/12/18/s...
Jag och @johanpries.bsky.social skriver idag om konflikten som pågick mellan 1924 – 1931
www.arbetaren.se/2025/12/18/s...
Turners dödsruna över Kalifornienideologin nu på svenska i @flamman.se [!!] www.flamman.se/den-texanska...
Den texanska ideologin
Nu söker teknikentreprenörerna sitt Lebensraum i bibelbältet.
www.flamman.se
December 11, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Turners dödsruna över Kalifornienideologin nu på svenska i @flamman.se [!!] www.flamman.se/den-texanska...
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
Had some great discussions with the terrific people of the House Europe campaign last week, who are working for European regulation that reduce demolitions. Please consider signing their petition to the EU if you live in Europe or are a citizen, and share their demands...
www.houseeurope.eu
www.houseeurope.eu
HouseEurope!
The European Citizens’ Initiative for Renovation.
www.houseeurope.eu
December 8, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Had some great discussions with the terrific people of the House Europe campaign last week, who are working for European regulation that reduce demolitions. Please consider signing their petition to the EU if you live in Europe or are a citizen, and share their demands...
www.houseeurope.eu
www.houseeurope.eu
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"The global system of connection built out in the 1990s has turned the social world into a resource for the oldest form of capitalism, extraction. For that kind of work Texas makes an ideal home... - Fred Turner
The Texan Ideology | Fred Turner
The Texan Ideology reflects a century-old fusion of the oil industry and millenarian Christianity.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"The global system of connection built out in the 1990s has turned the social world into a resource for the oldest form of capitalism, extraction. For that kind of work Texas makes an ideal home... - Fred Turner
👻🚨Hauntology nerds help request 👻🚨 Does anyone have Mark Fisher's Ghosts of my life within reach and could help me with the correct pages for some citations from the chapter titled The Slow Cancellation of the Future? All copies checked out our library and a manuscript with incomplete citations due.
November 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
👻🚨Hauntology nerds help request 👻🚨 Does anyone have Mark Fisher's Ghosts of my life within reach and could help me with the correct pages for some citations from the chapter titled The Slow Cancellation of the Future? All copies checked out our library and a manuscript with incomplete citations due.
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The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Quite like this courtyard I saw yesterday at Uppsala Human Geography (Economics and Social Science Faculty, former Social Science and Humanist Centre). Originally designed by Peter Celsing and completed in 1975, but a lot of the building has been modified, for the worse, in the 1990s...
November 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Quite like this courtyard I saw yesterday at Uppsala Human Geography (Economics and Social Science Faculty, former Social Science and Humanist Centre). Originally designed by Peter Celsing and completed in 1975, but a lot of the building has been modified, for the worse, in the 1990s...
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BigTech at $400Bn into AI this year!
"tech sector + the Mag 7 now makes up over 50% of the S&P 500's market cap." - Skanda Amarnath
"The plan? We gamble the entire global economy on inventing a technology that will abolish basically all jobs on the planet"
-@maiamindel
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/big-...
"tech sector + the Mag 7 now makes up over 50% of the S&P 500's market cap." - Skanda Amarnath
"The plan? We gamble the entire global economy on inventing a technology that will abolish basically all jobs on the planet"
-@maiamindel
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/big-...
October 31, 2025 at 1:34 AM
BigTech at $400Bn into AI this year!
"tech sector + the Mag 7 now makes up over 50% of the S&P 500's market cap." - Skanda Amarnath
"The plan? We gamble the entire global economy on inventing a technology that will abolish basically all jobs on the planet"
-@maiamindel
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/big-...
"tech sector + the Mag 7 now makes up over 50% of the S&P 500's market cap." - Skanda Amarnath
"The plan? We gamble the entire global economy on inventing a technology that will abolish basically all jobs on the planet"
-@maiamindel
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/big-...
Highgate: visited.
Ghost: haunting.
Halloween: done.
Ghost: haunting.
Halloween: done.
October 31, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Highgate: visited.
Ghost: haunting.
Halloween: done.
Ghost: haunting.
Halloween: done.
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My article in @the-breakdown.bsky.social is now free to read online!
While far-right parties have traditionally ignored climate, I explore how the Sweden Democrats embrace it as a wedge issue, creating redistributive conflicts around class & urban-rural divides:
www.break-down.org/petrol-for-t...
While far-right parties have traditionally ignored climate, I explore how the Sweden Democrats embrace it as a wedge issue, creating redistributive conflicts around class & urban-rural divides:
www.break-down.org/petrol-for-t...
Petrol For the People
Sweden’s far right defines its vision of climate action.
www.break-down.org
October 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
My article in @the-breakdown.bsky.social is now free to read online!
While far-right parties have traditionally ignored climate, I explore how the Sweden Democrats embrace it as a wedge issue, creating redistributive conflicts around class & urban-rural divides:
www.break-down.org/petrol-for-t...
While far-right parties have traditionally ignored climate, I explore how the Sweden Democrats embrace it as a wedge issue, creating redistributive conflicts around class & urban-rural divides:
www.break-down.org/petrol-for-t...
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Jag är ju partisk, men tycker ändå detta är rätt häftigt. Mer än 100 personer som tillsammans sammanställt vad vi vet om klimatmotstånd runt om i världen. Vilka aktörer? Var sker det? Och hur ser det ut? Fick äran att bidra till kapitel 2 om oljeindustrins strategier.
It's finally here! 100+ scholars, global scope, practical insights. “Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment” shows how organized interests stall policy—and how governance can respond.
Open access available now! Or order for paperback and hardcover. cssn.org/wp-content/u...
Open access available now! Or order for paperback and hardcover. cssn.org/wp-content/u...
October 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Jag är ju partisk, men tycker ändå detta är rätt häftigt. Mer än 100 personer som tillsammans sammanställt vad vi vet om klimatmotstånd runt om i världen. Vilka aktörer? Var sker det? Och hur ser det ut? Fick äran att bidra till kapitel 2 om oljeindustrins strategier.
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PTA’s Thomas Pynchon adaptations mark a shift in how readers encounter the novelist: cinema now replaces the classroom as a conduit. Our essay of the week traces Pynchon’s journey from academic postmodernism to popular cult figure.
By @devintoshea.bsky.social
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By @devintoshea.bsky.social
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October 15, 2025 at 11:45 AM
PTA’s Thomas Pynchon adaptations mark a shift in how readers encounter the novelist: cinema now replaces the classroom as a conduit. Our essay of the week traces Pynchon’s journey from academic postmodernism to popular cult figure.
By @devintoshea.bsky.social
buff.ly/5ZG50Po
By @devintoshea.bsky.social
buff.ly/5ZG50Po
This is just crucial listening to make sense of the moment. In fact, its so good I tried to log into my old Patreon account to update my lapsed credit card and reset my The Dig subscription, failed, downloaded the app, reset the password and card no and updated all my old Patreon subscriptions...
New @thedigradio.bsky.social: SECOND of two w @melindacooper.bsky.social on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. How asset boom and bust drove MAGA’s rise and also revealed powerful monetary tools that could make socialism—that and more www.thedigradio.com/podcast/from...
From Fiscal Austerity to Monetary Abundance w/ Melinda Cooper
Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Balanced budget conservatism and supply side populism engineered a politics of austerity and budget deficit...
www.thedigradio.com
October 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
This is just crucial listening to make sense of the moment. In fact, its so good I tried to log into my old Patreon account to update my lapsed credit card and reset my The Dig subscription, failed, downloaded the app, reset the password and card no and updated all my old Patreon subscriptions...
Lund University looking very University-like this morning.
October 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Lund University looking very University-like this morning.