Antoine Paccoud

Antoine Paccoud

@douccap.bsky.social

Geographer at LISER, Luxembourg. Works on the political and libidinal economy of land and housing ownership, buy-to-let gentrification, Badiou, Lacan, Deleuze & Guattari.

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Constance Uyttebrouck
@constanceu.bsky.social

📢 UGoveRN Roundtable Series at LISER Seminar/roundtable on housing hyper-commodification & spatial governance landscapes, with panellists from Amsterdam & Luxembourg 📍 LISER, Maison des Sciences Humaines, Belval (+ online) 🗓️ 22 October 2026, 13:30-17:00 🔗 Registration www.liser.lu/en/events/ug...

liser.luUGoveRN Roundtable Series 2Regulating the unregulatable? Hyper-commodified rental housing and counterproductive spatial governance landscapes

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Constance Uyttebrouck
@constanceu.bsky.social

✨Glad to see this out in the world! In this new HypeRent output, @douccap.bsky.social and I explore the strategies of the intermediaries of co-living and corporate STRs in light of Deleuze & Guattari's conceptualisation of capitalism. Link to the full OA paper ⬇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comPushing housing hyper-commodification: how new rental market intermediaries capture flows of labour and capital under platform capitalismThe technological boom concomitant to the Global Financial Crisis has enabled platform capitalism and provided tools to break with the illiquidity of real estate, while stimulating the emergence of...

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Adam Bonica
@adambonica.bsky.social

For years I've tracked billionaire excess. Each year I show students a chart that blows their minds. This year I had to redraw it for a trillionaire: Elon Musk, $1.32T. Depressing that we're here. Silver lining: couldn't have happened to a less deserving person, proof that wealth ≠ merit.

stanford.eduElon Musk's $1.32 Trillion, to ScaleThe first trillionaire's fortune, one pixel per $1,000 — scroll past every dollar, and see what a fraction of it could do instead.
Antoine Paccoud
@douccap.bsky.social

Post-doc opportunity at @liser.lu: Housing and Migration in the long run jobs.liser.lu/job/Esch-sur... In the @fnr.lu funded P(R)OP2 project: Property Data Meets Population Data in Past and Present: Migration and Property Relations in the Long Run (1910-2024) With Machteld Venken @c2dh.uni.lu

jobs.liser.luResearch Associate (Post-doc, f/m) in Housing and Migration in the long run - Ref: 26-16Research Associate (Post-doc, f/m) in Housing and Migration in the long run - Ref: 26-16

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Constance Uyttebrouck
@constanceu.bsky.social

🤩So happy to see the first output of the HypeRent research project out! In this OA paper, @douccap.bsky.social and I propose an analytical fmwk to make sense of the development and regulation of co-living and STRA, identified as hyper-commodified housing products. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comHyper-commodified housing products and the triple crisis: regulating the symptom or rethinking housing provision?This paper argues that the regulation of co-living and short-term rental accommodation – identified as ‘hyper-commodified housing products’ (HCHPs) – faces an important hurdle. The hyper-commodific...
Antoine Paccoud
@douccap.bsky.social

Why is enjoyment so difficult for some people? Why the need for circumvoluted expressions of cruelty, the artificial reterritorializations of D&G? Can’t they just leave people be?

Antoine Paccoud@douccap.bsky.social

“If we have been able to speak of the intrinsically perverted nature of psychoanalysis, this is due to the fact that perversion in general is the artificial reterritorialization of the flows of desire, whose machines on the contrary are indices of deterritorialized production.” D&G Anti-Oedipus 314

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Antoine Paccoud
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Nothing is in fact more alien to the sadist than the wish to convince, to persuade […] He is interested in something quite different, namely to demonstrate that reasoning itself is a form of violence, and that he is on the side of violence, however calm and logical he may be. Coldness & Cruelty

Antoine Paccoud
@douccap.bsky.social

The more the system blows out of steam, the more its raw sadism is exposed. Turn the libidinal in libidinal economy to its maximum, in the hope all else is forgotten. Perversion as policy. Perversion.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

Sadism is the lifeblood of MAGA politics. Hard to overstate how disgusting and embarrassing for our country it is for the US Secretary of Defense to be doing this:

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Iago Martínez
@autonauta.bsky.social

New in Urban Studies: urban change needs analyzing class AND housing tenure together. Coulter & Paccoud offer five "ideal types" showing how different class-tenure groups drive local change. From "molar" citywide patterns to "molecular" local intersections. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Antoine Paccoud
@douccap.bsky.social

« l’étude sincère purifie tout, comme le feu » « l’étude d’un cas curieux de physiologie » « chercher en eux la bête, ne voir que la bête, les jeter dans un drame violent, et noter scrupuleusement les sensations et les actes de ces êtres » Zola, préface à Thérèse Raquin, 1868

Antoine Paccoud
@douccap.bsky.social

New open access paper with Rory Coulter Leasing space through the private rented sector: The intersections of class and tenure change in London, 2011–2021 doi.org/10.1177/0042... The distribution of populations in cities is increasingly tied to the strategies of property investors and developers

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LISER - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research
@liser.lu

🎥 Breaking the Deadlock: Evidence and Collaboration for Housing Reform, featuring: Michel-Edouard Ruben (Fondation Idea) Ketty Dorla (IKO Real Estate) Antoine Paccoud (LISER) Paulette Lenert (Member of Parliament) Luc Biever (Ministry of Housing and Spatial Planning) ▶️https://youtu.be/V4QGqgZtFHk

youtu.beSociety in Motion | Breaking the Deadlock: Evidence and Collaboration for Housing Reform | LISERYouTube video by Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)

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Reporter.lu
@reporter.lu

Lydie Polfer lehnt ein Gebäuderegister für die Hauptstadt ab. Damit stößt die DP-Politikerin nicht nur ihren Parteikollegen Claude Meisch vor den Kopf. Ihre Haltung torpediert die Regierungspläne zur Einführung einer Leerstandsteuer – und könnte noch andere Folgen haben.

reporter.luLeerstand in der Hauptstadt: Lydie Polfer auf Konfrontationskurs - Reporter.luLydie Polfer lehnt ein Gebäuderegister für die Hauptstadt ab. Damit stößt die DP-Politikerin nicht nur ihren Parteikollegen Claude Meisch vor den Kopf. Ihre Haltung torpediert die Regierungspläne zur ...
Antoine Paccoud
@douccap.bsky.social

Not sure the sadism is performative! Perverse practices are constructed and repeated so as to give back to the Other (America) that which it is thought to be missing, the object a at the heart of the subject (greatness). A double imaginary move to legitimise cruelty and the pleasure it provides.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

New in PN: Potemkin village populism "Unlike the fake villages Potemkin erected, Trump’s theaters of cruelty are not harmless diversions. And while he imagines Americans cheering him, his performative sadism is only a winning strategy in his own mind. In reality, he’s becoming more & more reviled."

publicnotice.coPotemkin village populismTrump thinks he's fooling the public, but he's only deceiving himself.
Antoine Paccoud
@douccap.bsky.social

Sadism, the perverse subjective structure that is an essential infrastructure to the maintenance and legitimation of capitalist domination: …I don’t care about ameliorating my own wellbeing as long as ‘the others’ get only what they ‘deserve’…

Chris Bertram@crookedfootball.bsky.social

Hard to get into the heads of the sadists at the Home Office who sat round drawing up a list of "luxuries". Just one more method of humiliating some of the most vulnerable people. No doubt the unemployed will be next.

theguardian.comHome Office bans asylum seekers from buying luxury goods and servicesPurchase of snowmobiles, timeshares and furs prohibited, despite asylum seekers receiving only £9.95 a week

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LISER's Department of Urban Development and Mobility
@liser-udm.bsky.social

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🔎 Discover a NEW book review forum in the summer issue of IJHP 📘 Review by Prof. Zacarés @harveymurenow.bsky.social : www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 📘 Review by Prof. Berry: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 💡 Prof. Demirörs' response: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 2/3

tandfonline.comThe political economy of housing: the case of TurkeyPublished in International Journal of Housing Policy (Vol. 25, No. 3, 2025)
Antoine Paccoud
@douccap.bsky.social

Sous les tam-tams sadique et masochiste, il y a bien la répétition comme puissance terrible […] Au lieu que la répétition soit commandée par l’idée d’un plaisir à retrouver ou à obtenir, voilà que la répétition se déchaîne, est devenue indépendante de tout plaisir préalable.

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Antoine Paccoud
@douccap.bsky.social

There is a kind of mysticism in perversion: the greater the renunciation, the greater and the more secure the gains […] pleasure ceases to motivate the will and is abjured, disavowed, "renounced," the better to be recovered as a reward or consequence, and as a law.

Antoine Paccoud
@douccap.bsky.social

Sous les tam-tams sadique et masochiste, il y a bien la répétition comme puissance terrible […] Au lieu que la répétition soit commandée par l’idée d’un plaisir à retrouver ou à obtenir, voilà que la répétition se déchaîne, est devenue indépendante de tout plaisir préalable.

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Antoine Paccoud
@douccap.bsky.social

C’est comme dans une théologie noire où le plaisir cesse d’être le motif de la volonté, est essentiellement abjuré, dénié, « renoncé », mais pour mieux être retrouvé comme récompense ou résultat, et comme loi. Deleuze, Sacher Masoch

Antoine Paccoud
@douccap.bsky.social

Beneath the sound and fury of sadism and masochism the terrible force of repetition is at work […] Instead of repetition being governed by the idea of experiencing or reexperiencing pleasure, repetition runs wild and becomes independent of all previous pleasure.

Antoine Paccoud
@douccap.bsky.social

Sous les tam-tams sadique et masochiste, il y a bien la répétition comme puissance terrible […] Au lieu que la répétition soit commandée par l’idée d’un plaisir à retrouver ou à obtenir, voilà que la répétition se déchaîne, est devenue indépendante de tout plaisir préalable.

Antoine Paccoud
@douccap.bsky.social

Et c’est le plaisir qui est devenu conduite à l’égard de la répétition, c’est lui qui accompagne et suit maintenant la répétition comme terrible puissance indépendante […] Il y a un mysticisme du pervers : le pervers retrouve d’autant plus et d’autant mieux, qu’il a plus abandonné.

Antoine Paccoud
@douccap.bsky.social

Rien n’est plus étranger au sadique qu’une intention de persuader ou de convaincre […] Il s’agit de tout autre chose. Il s’agit de montrer que le raisonnement est lui-même une violence, qu’il est du côté des violents, avec toute sa rigueur, toute sa sérénité, tout son calme. Deleuze, Sacher-Masoch

Antoine Paccoud
@douccap.bsky.social

Nothing is in fact more alien to the sadist than the wish to convince, to persuade […] He is interested in something quite different, namely to demonstrate that reasoning itself is a form of violence, and that he is on the side of violence, however calm and logical he may be. Coldness & Cruelty

Antoine Paccoud
@douccap.bsky.social

“One can find the form of social alienation in action in all the reterritorializations of capitalism, inasmuch as they keep the flows from escaping the system, and maintain labor in the axiomatic framework of property”. Deleuze & Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, 320

Antoine Paccoud
@douccap.bsky.social

“If we have been able to speak of the intrinsically perverted nature of psychoanalysis, this is due to the fact that perversion in general is the artificial reterritorialization of the flows of desire, whose machines on the contrary are indices of deterritorialized production.” D&G Anti-Oedipus 314

Antoine Paccoud
@douccap.bsky.social

“A medical student who wants to be admitted to the medical profession must offer satisfactory proof of his practical and theoretical knowledge of medicine [..] Every shoemaker, cabinet-maker, turner, mechanic, electrician, stone mason, construction worker, etc., has to fulfil strict requirements…

Antoine Paccoud
@douccap.bsky.social

A politician, on the other hand, is free of any such demands. One need merely possess a good dose of cunning, neurotic ambition and will to power, coupled with brutality, in order to take over the highest positions of human society when suitable chaotic social conditions arise.” Reich, MPF

Antoine Paccoud
@douccap.bsky.social

“Political irrationalism, which plagues, disfigures and destroys our life, is, in the true psychiatric sense of the word, a perversion of social life, a perversion brought about by the failure to recognize the natural functions of life”

Antoine Paccoud
@douccap.bsky.social

“Dictatorship is capable only of suppressing the natural functions of life or of exploiting them for its narrow purposes; it can never promote and protect these functions or perform them itself. In doing so, it would destroy itself” Reich, Mass Psychology of Fascism