Jon Silver

‘The Infrastructural South’ is published + now out w/ @MITPress You can buy it (or ask your library to) but also freely read it through the amazing @MITPress Open Access platform You can find it here 👉mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546874/… Enjoy 🙏

Nothing about finance and big capital being attracted through favourable conditions in this piece, almost like the hyper-gentrification + transformation happened ‘naturally’ rather than a state-led strategy underpinned by embracing of neoliberal dogma theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j…

It’s only optics British participation in the genocide continues unabated There are no redlines

Delete your @bookingcom account. As the protest in Manchester last wk made clear we need to BOYCOTT this company, which profits from Israel’s illegal occupation + apartheid of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Every little act helps! Info here: bdsmovement.net/bookingcom-sto…

This carnage is happening before our eyes and the world remains silent and emasculated. 132 Palestinians killed in Gaza today including 94 aid seekers who were killed while trying to get food. Their blood is mixed with flour and their bodies are piled up in destroyed…

81 year old former magistrate, Deborah Hinton, arrested under the Terrorism Act in Cornwall. She held a placard which said: "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action."

Our GlobalCORRIDOR paper is out in the latest edition of @USJ_online "The unending corridor: Critical approaches to the politics, logics and socio-technics of urban corridorisation" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

This is England theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

Kent police officers claim that holding the Palestine flag and a placard which says Free Gaza, can be considered to be expressing a belief in support of Palestine Action, a now proscribed group.

Again @ForensicArchi provide detailed data/visual understandings of the genocide in Gaza. This work documents how the militarised system of 'aid' operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) acts to accelerate ethnic cleansing + kill frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/aid/a-cea…

CYBORG RIGHTS & THE CITY: New UrbanRadar podcast now available A conversation on tech and urbanism with Simon Marvin and Allan McCay Available on open.spotify.com/episode/297TMc… - or wherever you get your podcasts!

Just landed in London bookshops: Resisting Erasure. A radical critique of Israel's settler-colonial capitalism and empire. by @AdamHanieh @pashukanist and myself. Preorder link live too versobooks.com/products/3410-….

Manchester International Festival (@mifestival/@factoryintl) is sponsored by tens of millions of £ by Aviva, who have financial ties w/ Elbit Systems. They profit from genocide and use art washing to try and hide this People of Manchester say no to art washing in a genocide

In Manchester police push through crowds + arrest 16 people inc 3 vicars and many elderly under the Terrorism Act for holding signs "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

Last week the Global Corridor project had the pleasure of hosting our international collaborators to comparatively think through how infra corridors are transforming the planet inc urban terrains A vibrant, caring + intellectually stimulating few days together w/ amazing people

Enjoyed this play marking the 80th anniversary of the Fifth Pan-African Congress in Manchester, showing the tensions, personalities and solidarities that were forged to demand an end to colonial rule factoryinternational.org/whats-on/liber…

I don’t know how this could be spelled out any more clearly.

Jonathan Silver interviews author and organizer Isaac Rose about his book on housing financialization in Manchester, The Rentier City. They discuss the motivations for writing the book, how theory informs practice, and the influences that guided Rose. buff.ly/MnjHbje

Nice to see the interview @InvisibleMapper did with me out in @Metropolitics_ metropolitics.org/Unleashing-Fin…