Johan Pries
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.
- Fully salaried PhD position in Human Geography with KEG at Lund U. Please circulate among interested students with a relevant Ma degree. Formally not allowed to give individual advice on applications, but feel free to ask questions about the department and our research. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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- NYT-centrist like Ezra Klein leading with a Gramsci qoute? Morbid symptoms, indeed! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gR7...
- Reposted by Johan Pries“The scenario is not so far from that deservedly famous line of Margaret Atwood’s: men fear women laughing at them. Women fear men killing them, because she dared to laugh at him.”
- Reposted by Johan Pries“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...
- Out just before dawn to try to capture some neo-neobrutliast early 00s architecture in my neighbourhood in the snow + holiday lights.
- Reposted by Johan PriesThis article investigates the sociality of Scandinavian public swimming halls through Jean-Paul Sartre’s reworking of Marxist alienation as seriality. Drawing on fifty-nine narratives, it explores behaviors of mutual semi-unawareness in settings involving (partial) nudity among strangers.
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- Reposted by Johan PriesLossmen–Ekträsk-konflikten är Sverige längsta lockout. Det är en hundraårshändelse i svensk arbetarhistoria. Ingen arbetsplatskonflikt, har oss veterligen, pågått längre. Jag och @johanpries.bsky.social skriver idag om konflikten som pågick mellan 1924 – 1931 www.arbetaren.se/2025/12/18/s...
- Turners dödsruna över Kalifornienideologin nu på svenska i @flamman.se [!!] www.flamman.se/den-texanska...
- Reposted by Johan Priescan't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
- Had some great discussions with the terrific people of the House Europe campaign last week, who are working for European regulation that reduce demolitions. Please consider signing their petition to the EU if you live in Europe or are a citizen, and share their demands... www.houseeurope.eu
- Reposted by Johan Pries"The global system of connection built out in the 1990s has turned the social world into a resource for the oldest form of capitalism, extraction. For that kind of work Texas makes an ideal home... - Fred Turner
- 👻🚨Hauntology nerds help request 👻🚨 Does anyone have Mark Fisher's Ghosts of my life within reach and could help me with the correct pages for some citations from the chapter titled The Slow Cancellation of the Future? All copies checked out our library and a manuscript with incomplete citations due.
- Reposted by Johan PriesThe AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
- 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...
