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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/

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Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For years I've tracked billionaire excess. Each year I show students a chart that blows their minds. This year I had to redraw it for a trillionaire: Elon Musk, $1.32T. Depressing that we're here. Silver lining: couldn't have happened to a less deserving person, proof that wealth ≠ merit.

Elon Musk's $1.32 Trillion, to Scale

The first trillionaire's fortune, one pixel per $1,000 — scroll past every dollar, and see what a fraction of it could do instead.

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Antoine Paccoud@douccap.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Post-doc opportunity at @liser.lu: Housing and Migration in the long run jobs.liser.lu/job/Esch-sur... In the @fnr.lu funded P(R)OP2 project: Property Data Meets Population Data in Past and Present: Migration and Property Relations in the Long Run (1910-2024) With Machteld Venken @c2dh.uni.lu

Research Associate (Post-doc, f/m) in Housing and Migration in the long run - Ref: 26-16

Research Associate (Post-doc, f/m) in Housing and Migration in the long run - Ref: 26-16

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Constance Uyttebrouck@constanceu.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🤩So happy to see the first output of the HypeRent research project out! In this OA paper, @douccap.bsky.social and I propose an analytical fmwk to make sense of the development and regulation of co-living and STRA, identified as hyper-commodified housing products. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hyper-commodified housing products and the triple crisis: regulating the symptom or rethinking housing provision?

This paper argues that the regulation of co-living and short-term rental accommodation – identified as ‘hyper-commodified housing products’ (HCHPs) – faces an important hurdle. The hyper-commodific...

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Antoine Paccoud@douccap.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Why is enjoyment so difficult for some people? Why the need for circumvoluted expressions of cruelty, the artificial reterritorializations of D&G? Can’t they just leave people be?

Antoine Paccoud@douccap.bsky.social · last yr.

“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

Antoine Paccoud@douccap.bsky.social · last yr.

Nothing is in fact more alien to the sadist than the wish to convince, to persuade […] He is interested in something quite different, namely to demonstrate that reasoning itself is a form of violence, and that he is on the side of violence, however calm and logical he may be. Coldness & Cruelty

Iago Martínez@autonauta.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New in Urban Studies: urban change needs analyzing class AND housing tenure together. Coulter & Paccoud offer five "ideal types" showing how different class-tenure groups drive local change. From "molar" citywide patterns to "molecular" local intersections. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Antoine Paccoud@douccap.bsky.social · 9mo ago

« l’étude sincère purifie tout, comme le feu » « l’étude d’un cas curieux de physiologie » « chercher en eux la bête, ne voir que la bête, les jeter dans un drame violent, et noter scrupuleusement les sensations et les actes de ces êtres » Zola, préface à Thérèse Raquin, 1868

Antoine Paccoud@douccap.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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

Housing is central to the social dynamics of cities. However, many recent citywide analyses of social change have largely set aside housing to concentrate on shifts in income and occupational class structure. In this paper, we argue that examining the intersections of class with tenure provides a richer framework for making sense of patterns and processes of urban social change. Using data from the 2011 and 2021 Censuses, we examine (1) how the intersecting occupational class and housing tenure position of households in London has changed over the decade before (2) analysing the shifting locational and tenure positions of middle- and working-class households in the capital. The results show that ‘leasing space’ through the private rented sector is a key dynamic enabling the continued gentrification of Inner London boroughs. The apparent persistence of working-class London meanwhile masks disadvantageous changes in the residential position of working-class households, as declines in working-class homeownership and social housing have been offset by the growth of working-class private renting in the northern and western suburbs. These restructuring trends have major implications for social inequalities of wealth, residential security and access to opportunities.
LISER - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research@liser.lu · 10mo ago

🎥 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

Society in Motion | Breaking the Deadlock: Evidence and Collaboration for Housing Reform | LISER

YouTube video by Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)

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Reporter.lu@reporter.lu · 11mo ago

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 ...

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Antoine Paccoud@douccap.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11mo ago

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."

Antoine Paccoud@douccap.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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’…

Chris Bertram@crookedfootball.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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.

LISER's Department of Urban Development and Mobility@liser-udm.bsky.social · last yr.

🔎 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

The political economy of housing: the case of Turkey

Published in International Journal of Housing Policy (Vol. 25, No. 3, 2025)

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Antoine Paccoud@douccap.bsky.social · last yr.

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.

Antoine Paccoud@douccap.bsky.social · last yr.

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

Antoine Paccoud@douccap.bsky.social · last yr.

“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