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.
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
buff.ly/5ZG50Po
By @devintoshea.bsky.social
buff.ly/5ZG50Po
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.
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/...
October 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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/...
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...
October 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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...
Incredibly lucid account of our conjuncture's origins and political stakes.
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
October 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Incredibly lucid account of our conjuncture's origins and political stakes.
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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...
”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
October 3, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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...
”One battle after another” visar glidningen från kalla krigets övertygelse till vår tids tomma spektakel, skriver @johanpries.bsky.social.
www.flamman.se/vad-pynchons...
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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
September 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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-...
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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...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...
The ICE Shooter’s Motive
Joshua Jahn's friends speak
www.kenklippenstein.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...
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).
September 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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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🚨 New on Substack, my post on Dawson's Heights, Kate Macintosh's masterpiece:
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/dawsons-he...
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.
municipaldreams.substack.com
September 18, 2025 at 7:06 AM
🚨 New on Substack, my post on Dawson's Heights, Kate Macintosh's masterpiece:
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/dawsons-he...
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/dawsons-he...
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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...
doi.org
September 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
New paper, on environmental protests, infrastructure and the values connected to car-use.
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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
"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.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
September 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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
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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...
September 9, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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...
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Great piece
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...
tribunemag.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Great piece
Höganäs former People's Park (Sweden). Founded circa 1906 by local unions, mostly from the port, nearby mines and ceramics works I would assume. Sold to the municipality more than a decade ago, and redeveloped as a public park and housing area. Many traces in the landscape, however, remain.
August 14, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Höganäs former People's Park (Sweden). Founded circa 1906 by local unions, mostly from the port, nearby mines and ceramics works I would assume. Sold to the municipality more than a decade ago, and redeveloped as a public park and housing area. Many traces in the landscape, however, remain.
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Hello new followers! Interested in the history of #antifascism and resistance? Here is a short thread about the edited volumes and special issues that I have had the privilege to co-edit. All containing contributions by stellar authors with new exciting perspectives. Share if you like! /1
August 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Hello new followers! Interested in the history of #antifascism and resistance? Here is a short thread about the edited volumes and special issues that I have had the privilege to co-edit. All containing contributions by stellar authors with new exciting perspectives. Share if you like! /1
Halmstad People's Park (Sweden): built by trade union 1905 and used by them for many decades. What remains is a public park slated for housing development, loudly opposed by a group of locals. Halmstad, particularly its port and railroad, was in the early 20th century a key node of labor militancy.
August 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Halmstad People's Park (Sweden): built by trade union 1905 and used by them for many decades. What remains is a public park slated for housing development, loudly opposed by a group of locals. Halmstad, particularly its port and railroad, was in the early 20th century a key node of labor militancy.
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Become my new colleague! Two weeks left to send in your application.
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Join us at the Human Ecology division in Lund! Position as senior lecturer out. Last application date August 31st . I am happy to answer if you have any questions. #envhum #envhist #envpol @cssn.org and more!
Senior Lecturer in Human Ecology
Specific subject description The Human Ecology Division applies an inter-disciplinary definition of its research field. Research and education at the division deals with human-environmental relations
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August 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Become my new colleague! Two weeks left to send in your application.
#envpol #envhist #greensky #envhum @environmentalpol.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social @cnsjournal.bsky.social
#envpol #envhist #greensky #envhum @environmentalpol.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social @cnsjournal.bsky.social