UrbanTheoryLab
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This is the twitter platform of the Urban Theory Lab (UTL) at the University of Chicago. Tweets are posted by Neil Brenner and other UTL researchers.
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Arms manufacturers have embedded themselves in STEM programs across the country, creating engineering degree to defense industry pipelines. In 2020, the gov gave more $ to Lockheed Martin than the Dept. of Ed. My 2022 investigation for In These Times inthesetimes.com/article/lockhe…
I helped organize this conference on the Green Transition, Planning, and Democracy with Saule Omarova, Amy Kapczynski, Cédric Durand, Mike McCarthy, Charlotte Robertson, Melanie Brusseler, Aaron Benanav, Gary Herrigel, and Chiara Cordelli. You can zoom in if you are not in Chicago!
Please join us for a lecture by Kohei Saito, “Marx’s Idea of Degrowth Communism in the Anthropocene,” next Wednesday, May 22, 5:00–6:30pm in SSRB 122. UChicago CEGU UChicago Franke Inst
A real privilege to have many thousands of words in Dickinson Law Review to review brilliant books by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and Jo Guldi and think through "the case for climate reparations." Check it out! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
Call for papers from #UCLALuskin's Critical Planning journal: criticalplanningjournal.org/call-for-submi…
A new article by William Conroy on the "hidden abodes" of capitalist / planetary urbanization--with deep reflections on the vexing yet unavoidable question of 'totality' in critical urban theory: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
🎉My article on *totality, ideology, and critical urban theory* found a home in Urban Studies Journal I unravel the implications of recent work on totality and difference in urban studies, and I make the case for a new approach to totality attentive to the "hidden abodes of urbanization"