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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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Antoine Paccoud @douccap.bsky.social · 2mo ago

PhD opportunity at @liser.lu: Housing provision as enjoyment jobs.liser.lu/job/Esch-sur... Part of the @fnr.lu funded C-SOS (Competitiveness within a Safe Operating Space) Doctoral Training Unit, in collaboration with LIST and @uni.lu Deadline: September 18th, 2026 Happy to answer any questions!

This call is to contribute to this DTU through the development of a PhD project on housing provision as enjoyment in the context of the current housing unaffordability crisis. While economic causes are widely researched, less is known of the role played by enjoyment, desire and drive in the development of housing unaffordability. In housing, it is crucial to scrutinize forms of individualistic enjoyment, such as the control over land exercised by landowners, the production of value by property developers, and the domination landlords exercise over tenants. It is also urgent to identify and amplify more collective forms of enjoyment in housing provision, such as the investments driving the development of social housing, cooperative housing or community land trusts – forms of enjoyment that foreground the use value of ‘home’ and collective libidinal investments in housing provision.

To map these forms of individualistic and collective enjoyment, and to uncover how they become socially accepted part of the ‘new normal’ of housing systems, the project can mobilise, among others: historical analysis of elite discourses and legal texts to identify shifts in the social acceptability of certain forms of individualistic or collective housing-related enjoyment; biographical or life-course interviews with property actors centring on the drivers of their actions; analysis of cultural production (literature, art, music, film, etc.), social media discourse or AI-generated text.

Constance Uyttebrouck @constanceu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

✨Glad to see this out in the world! In this new HypeRent output, @douccap.bsky.social and I explore the strategies of the intermediaries of co-living and corporate STRs in light of Deleuze & Guattari's conceptualisation of capitalism. Link to the full OA paper ⬇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Pushing housing hyper-commodification: how new rental market intermediaries capture flows of labour and capital under platform capitalism

The technological boom concomitant to the Global Financial Crisis has enabled platform capitalism and provided tools to break with the illiquidity of real estate, while stimulating the emergence of...

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Antoine Paccoud @douccap.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 4mo 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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Constance Uyttebrouck @constanceu.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🗳️To my ENHR fellows, I have been nominated as a candidate for the ENHR coordination committee elections. This means a lot to me as ENHR has been my research family since I started my journey in academia. More info on the elections and how to vote here: enhr.net/about-enhr/c...

Coordination Committee Candidates 2026 – ENHR

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Antoine Paccoud @douccap.bsky.social · 6mo 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

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Madalina Mezaros @madalinamez.bsky.social · 6mo ago

One key line: displacement does not simply follow gentrification but can precede and help generate it across borders. Grateful to the @fnr.lu for funding and for making the article open access. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Constance Uyttebrouck @constanceu.bsky.social · 8mo 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 · 8mo 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

Antoine Paccoud @douccap.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The more the system blows out of steam, the more its raw sadism is exposed. Turn the libidinal in libidinal economy to its maximum, in the hope all else is forgotten. Perversion as policy. Perversion.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Sadism is the lifeblood of MAGA politics. Hard to overstate how disgusting and embarrassing for our country it is for the US Secretary of Defense to be doing this:

Iago Martínez @autonauta.bsky.social · 11mo 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 · 11mo 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 · 11mo 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.

Antoine Paccoud @douccap.bsky.social · 12mo ago

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

In this mini-conference, we are seeking to have a critical debate about land struggles over sovereignty, resources and means of survival. We are inviting folks to submit abstracts (no more than 1000 words) which raise land as the main object of analysis of power in a ‘post-globalisation order’. By seeking to re-centre the Land Question in contemporary socio and political economic debate and scholarship, we aim to illuminate how land and the power it confers shape institutions, create and mediate conflicts, and determine possibilities for both domination and resistance in an era marked by ecological crisis and geopolitical realignment.

We are particularly interested in hearing about research which speaks to one of our key themes:

1. Land conflicts and new imperialisms
2. Extractivism and resource conflicts
3. Digital infrastructure and the material internet
4. Institutions and power in the regulation of land
5. Consequences of urban and rural land concentration
6. Land rent and heterodox economics

LISER - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research @liser.lu · last yr.

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

👏 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!

LISER - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research @liser.lu · last yr.

📢 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...

Reporter.lu @reporter.lu · last yr.

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

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

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 · last yr.

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 · last yr.

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 · last yr.

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.

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

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...

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

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...

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

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michele collins @michelecollins5411.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm glad people are starting to use the word 'sadism'. because that is what this is.

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

📣 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

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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Professor Loretta Lees @lorettaclees.bsky.social · last yr.

Lovely day in Luxembourg then Dudelange then across border into France today with @douccap.bsky.social & @madalinamez.bsky.social learnt so much 😊

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.