I’m an anthropologist, sometimes I occupy things & such.

I see anarchism as something you do not an identity...

...so don’t call me the anarchist anthropologist

Twitter was David’s public platform and tools for practicing a new language – clear and understandable for everyone, it was a space where he made friends and enemies.

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Sun 24 May 2020 13:36

perhaps a more precise way of putting it: “they” can’t get rid of DC because DC is the guy they’re referring to when they say “them”

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Sun 24 May 2020 10:20

there’s one basic problem with getting rid of Dominic Cummings. He IS the gov’t.BoJo intentionally filled the gov’t with incompetent nonentities so he could rule unchallenged, then decided ruling wasn’t fun any more & fucked off. So he’s all that’s left. https://t.co/8AtGwAaDC3

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Sat 23 May 2020 01:23

what will the Apocalypse sound like? Apparently, like a whole series of really irritating car alarms. They’ve been going for hours now. Maybe they’re not cars. Probably there have been 1-second power outages & it keeps tripping them.

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Wed 20 May 2020 00:51

Boris Johnson will be remembered by history as the idiot who put on a superman cape & jumped out the window, urging everyone to follow him, then had to be carefully patched together again https://t.co/dPz1x3Wsp4

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Sun 17 May 2020 17:00

this is the longest interview I have yet done since the pandemic. Curious what people think of any of the new thoughts. (I think there are some.) https://t.co/DFLx0j0Qlw

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Sun 17 May 2020 09:30

this thread was kind of a test-run, people seemed to like it so I think I will use it as the basis for a piece for Liberation in France (they solicited something) https://t.co/aCVGoOA9TB

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Sat 16 May 2020 13:34

that anything that produces profit (like real estate) is “productive” and therefore that all those managers and consultants really are making something after all 6/

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Sat 16 May 2020 13:33

but this is now a small part of the economy, most labour isn’t “productive” in that material sense & framing things in terms of “productivity” (i.e., in official stats they even talk about the productivity of real estate) is ultimately a way of claiming 5/

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Sat 16 May 2020 13:31

the only reason there’s even a possibility of restoring the veil is the maintenance of the old 20C rubric of “productivity”, since yes, some factories have shut down, eventually stock of refrigerators or harmonicas will have to be replenished. 4/

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Sat 16 May 2020 13:28

what’s being restored is not “the economy” it’s precisely the bullshit economy, all those managers who supervise other managers, all those people whose job is ultimately to convince you the existence of their jobs is not insane 3/

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Sat 16 May 2020 13:26

it can only conclude this is the voice of those people whose work has been revealed to be largely or completely useless who have become impatient that the veil is lifted, or worried if it is too long, they won’t be able to put it back 2/

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Sat 16 May 2020 13:25

what precisely do people mean by “getting the economy up again”? If the economy is how you keep people alive, fed, clothed, housed, etc, the economy was still running during lockdown. So in what sense is “the economy” coming back when lockdown is lifted? 1/

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Fri 15 May 2020 14:35

“Suddenly there’s something that can hurt us even more than finance!” Video of me answering questions asked in German. But my answers, and subtitles, are both in English. For some reason. Thanks, Frank! https://t.co/y7a9aw39ne

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Fri 15 May 2020 13:47

(bear in mind just for purposes of full disclosure, I’m not striking myself: I have a good income & my landlady is a front-line NHS worker who’s renting out her family home so she can live where needed. But I don’t consider people like her members of the landlord class.)

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Fri 15 May 2020 12:34

(wait is anyone able to download the book? Apparently patreon wants you to pay for content so we put it on another page but I’m not sure the link is up yet. We’re putting it in now.)

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Fri 15 May 2020 12:28

As you’ll see from “On Kings” the format is very dialogic, a (rather subversive) question/answer conversation as w a curious child, so the books are for age groups 11-100. We could put up sections of new Q/As, or pages we have for the new books, & gather ideas for new questions

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Fri 15 May 2020 12:25

Nika has the idea to put up little videos, partly because she has large portions of some of my lectures from last term, and can extract short portions that stand alone. As a result she’s also been filming little rants on her phone that she finds entertaining, anyway.

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Fri 15 May 2020 12:23

we aren’t going to charge, except perhaps in future for actual physical stuff which we obviously can’t make for free ourselves, cups or curtains with designs coming out of the book projects (which as you’ll see are very visual) – but for now, we welcome suggestions for content

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Fri 15 May 2020 12:20

So there is news … .@nikadubrovsky and I have set up a patreon page for our Anthropology for All project! We put up our first joint book, the (almost final draft of) “What are Kings?” – it’s free. No need to give us $$. Unless you want to … https://t.co/dTwJSopkfD

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Fri 15 May 2020 12:14

The landlord class never pays their debts if they don’t have to. They never feel morally conflicted. The rent-collecting class has intentionally destroyed society. Holding back rent is the first step towards rebuilding it. Support the .@LDNRentersUnion! #cantpaywontpay

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Thu 14 May 2020 15:56

for all those who read Slovenian, here is a long interview with Disenz. (English original promised rsn). https://t.co/6Wp9C3dwXB

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Thu 14 May 2020 01:47

yes it’s SPECTRE TV, with a whole host of interesting characters (disclosure: I’m one) discussing UBI. This is a trial balloon. Tell us what you think of it! https://t.co/KfiIRCt403

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Tue 12 May 2020 14:11

What if we defined “the economy” as “the way we take care of one another”? Since that’s what it ultimately is. What would economic indicators then look like?

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Sun 10 May 2020 22:20

We are experiencing a deadly epidemic. Why do people in the UK seem to feel that it is perfectly normal that the government is handling it largely through slogans? So much so that they calmly discuss whether the new slogan is better than the old one? Are we collectively insane?

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Sun 10 May 2020 12:42

Maybe this isn’t the time to bring it up, but, weren’t the Tories caught w their pants down on COVID as they were too busy planning an intentional catastrophe (No Deal Brexit)? That’s still going to happen, no? As soon as we crawl out from our rocks they hit us with the mallet.

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