Duncan Bell, 'Scripting the City: J. G. Ballard Among the Architects'
bloomsbury.com/us/political-t…

Just published: new British Academy Memoir of Professor Jose Harris FBA (1941-2023). Jose Harris was internationally acclaimed for outstanding contributions to the development and history of welfare states through the 20th century.
thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/mem…

E Douglas Fawcett died on this day, so here are some of the illustrations to his 1893 novel 'Hartmann the Anarchist, or The Doom of the Great City' by Fred T Jane:

Duncan Bell, 'Scripting the City: J. G. Ballard Among the Architects'
bloomsbury.com/us/political-t…

My next book is kind-of a pulp sciencefictionalisation of Deleuze's Le Pli, so there's that.

Brigitte Helm on the set of Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927)

The Kathe Kollowitz exhibition at MOMA is hauntingly beautiful

KPFA radio show on microwork, social reproduction & night-labour drawing on my Marx research & recent article about low-wage OL tasking with James Muldoon . Check it out Duncan Bell Jeanne Morefield Albena Azmanova Lea Ypi Benjamin McKean Autonomy kpfa.org/episode/agains…

Photo by Ezra Stoller...
United Nations Building, New York City...1950
#architecture #arquitectura #EzraStoller

NYC on a misty night

My inaugural lecture at the #GBZ_HUBerlin has just been published on Open Access. Go to: ‘Intelligible government’: rethinking the meaning of monarchy in the age of King Charles III tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

possibly the greatest architecture thread of all time

Stranger couples..

Home communications system by Burkhard Vogtherr (1969)
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'The Voice of Space' (1928) by René Magritte

NYC on a misty night

The Kathe Kollowitz exhibition at MOMA is hauntingly beautiful

Thinking Global Podcast E-International Relations – Quentin Skinner
e-ir.info/2024/04/08/thi…

This is an extraordinary and damning essay

'I think it would be a good idea'

‘Hidden in plain sight’: the European city tours of slavery and colonialism theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

So grateful for the early readers of my new book Air and Love, which is already available to pre-order! 🍋