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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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The most West Anderson device I've ever seen: An early 20th century Swedish Cooperative Association enamel receipt-collector and shopping list-maker. Now at auction in Sandviken. No bids.

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Pod, om bok (3/n): shows.acast.com/keg-podden/e... [om någon annan vill prata om boken så hör av er]

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New online: @brettchristophers.bsky.social and @adamtooze.bsky.social in conversation, moderated by @katearonoff.bsky.social, about the climate crisis and the limits of capitalism. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

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What's left of Höganäs People's Park. Probably one of the architecturally most impressive Labor movement location in Sweden, probably because the many high quality brick and tile suppliers in the area and the knowledge of the materials in the local workforce, reduced a sad, campy sign.

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‘The last five years have been a real smack in the face for anyone who was hoping that initiatives in the late 2010s were a real harbinger of change.’ @brettchristophers.bsky.social on how fossil fuel companies are failing to ‘keep it in the ground’, on the podcast: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

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Today I got a Valentine themed bookmark from the crafty 11 yo and an appropriately pink book on modernism and empire to review for Urban History. Can't complain.

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Need advice from geographers, historians, memory studies (etc) people out there: trying to write an article about space, movements, ruins, nostalgia and memory from a reading of Ernst Bloch. Ideas about journals that might be interested in this kind of odd combination? [photo: Tillträde förbjudet]

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Missa inte Bromander-Hanses Hungerstenarna på Malmö stadsteater.

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Podintervju med Miriam om vår bok i Flamman. Bakom betalvägg för prenumeranter, men previewklipp i tråden.

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