Penguin has a page up for my new book, coming Feb 2027, HOUSE SOCIETY The epigraph is from Kenneth T. Jackson's famous "Crabgrass Frontier": "... no society can be fully understood apart from the residences of its members" The book is an exploration and affirmation of that thesis!

House Society

The world is in the midst of a deep and worsening housing crisis. It has caused rents to soar in Britain, millions to protest in Spain, and a government to collapse in Sweden. Under a global ideology ...

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The world is a little dimmer today. Writing this for my friend and colleague Sarah Knuth was agonizing and we miss her so much, but we also celebrate Sarah's memory and push forward on the struggles that she cared about so deeply. climateandcommunity.org/bio/sarah-kn...

Sarah Knuth (In Memoriam) - Climate and Community Institute

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Great essay by @quinnslobodian.com www.theideasletter.org/essay/digita...

Digital Bandung

The recent turn to the language of “digital empire” and “data colonialism” captures aspects of the concentration of technological power, but often mistakes polemic for analysis. Slobodian revisits the...

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My gosh. Yesterday, Egypt Coach Hossam Hassan asked FIFA to use its "soft power" to help Palestinians. Then today, just as the Egypt-Argentina match began, Israel killed Mohammed al-Wahidi of the Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza — a group that also organized Gaza screenings of the FIFA matches.

Easily one of the greatest World Cup games

Cape Verde defeats Argentina via a 2-3 loss in extra time

We still need your signatures please. Sign if you are opposed to these deep cuts please.

Laleh Khalili@lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Friends of Exeter, former students and alumni, can you please sign the petition below: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

Why is ICE buying so many warehouses, and what does this have to do with the warehouse's shifting place in the US economy? In Places Journal, I chronicle the long arc of Warehousing's carceral geography and the speculative building boom that ICE is absorbing. placesjournal.org/article/the-...

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.

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This is so good @miriammthsn.bsky.social

Miriam Matthiessen@miriammthsn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

In recent months there’s been a lot of talk about the ‘dark’ fleet, the ‘shadow’ or the ‘ghost’ fleet. For a while now I have felt that people use these terms without really examining their origins nor the assumptions that come with invoking them, so I wrote about why I think this is a problem:

The Hormuz oil shock has made it possible to see how American hegemony ends. A brilliant new essay by @mona-ali.bsky.social on the ‘hydrocarbon dollar complex’ and the emergence of a new international order:

Speaking of: Netanyahu and others are openly talking of applying the “Gaza model” to Lebanon. The “Gaza model” means genocide. www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

Israel Katz: IDF to destroy bridges, homes in Lebanon to curb Hezbollah | The Jerusalem Post

He said the IDF is continuing ground operations in Lebanon to eliminate Hezbollah operatives and reach the anti-tank line and key strategic positions as quickly as possible.

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elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I worry that I’m gonna be repeating that Israel’s goal is to destroy Lebanon itself and that this will be a catastrophe for the entire world while being gaslit that that’s not what’s happening while Israel does exactly that

Gosh. It's almost as if capitalism is not in fact a totally rational and seamless system.

March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.

North Tehran’s Aqdasiyeh oil depot is ablaze tonight after it was targeted by multiple US-Israeli airstrikes. Apocalyptic scenes filmed by Iranians driving on the nearby highway. Local reporters saying firefighters can’t put it out. This depot is critical energy infrastructure for Iran.

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is not “stability.” It’s a recipe for state collapse, regional conflagration, and unending violence. @alfatau.bsky.social reports on the chaos this war is unleashing.

The Axis of Chaos

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is sowing the seeds for state collapse and unending violence across the region.

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The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced. They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon. The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

Really necessary set of essay about this moment: www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47192

straight fire from Melinda Cooper as usual

Equator@equatormag.bsky.social · 6mo ago

What does Epstein’s household economy reveal about the billionaire far-right? Melinda Cooper traces the disturbing logic connecting primal patriarchy, transhumanism, and the rule of masters over servants. www.equator.org/articles/eps...

Just in time, let’s go

Today, Andrew Anastasi and @benchansfield.bsky.social discuss the wave of landlord-perpetrated arson during the 1970s, how residents organized to stop it, and what this tells us about the ongoing interplay between property and racial capitalism.

The Business of Arson: An Interview with Bench Ansfield

An examination of the wave of landlord perpetrated arson in the Bronx during the 1970s presents an untold story of racial capitalism and financialization. Andrew Anastasi interviews Bench Ansfield…

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Beneath the Howl of Hunger arablit.org/2025/07/23/b...

Beneath the Howl of Hunger

“And though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain.” – Alaa Alqaisi

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Looking forward to welcoming Melinda Cooper to LSE on June 3rd, for a talk on "BlackRock vs. BlackStone: Factions of Asset-Based Capitalism" Join us! The event is free and open to all, registration details below www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/blackrock-...