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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Fri 9 Jan 2015 13:05

then I have to think about (1) Financial Times editorial, (2) mag piece on Rojava, (3) LRB about Bhaskar, (4) radio scripts

Fri 9 Jan 2015 12:59

working on preface to the English edition of Carlo Severi’s magisterial The Chimera Principle. Then, finally, I can complete my Reading List

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Thu 8 Jan 2015 10:22

“I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn’t make it worse.” Brendan Behan

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Wed 7 Jan 2015 15:37

time to play the “will Juan Cole censor my comment” game again! This time because I note the PKK are not “separatist” http://t.co/tEAPcfVCAs

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Wed 7 Jan 2015 00:54

hey anyone see my thing on RT TV news? I thought they said it was live but I didn’t notice anyone having seen it.

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Sun 4 Jan 2015 23:26

I said I’d write something about clothing & revolutionary politics for The Baffler http://t.co/lNHE2jkyoR

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Sat 3 Jan 2015 02:51

that’s disturbing: Daesh mag quoting me on Caliphate’s currency http://t.co/qtSHCEtmlL This meanwhile more like it: http://t.co/rjSJZvyVfW

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Fri 2 Jan 2015 13:58

so is the destruction of other peoples’ olive groves becoming some sort of new traditional right-wing sport?

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Fri 2 Jan 2015 13:57

main uprooters of olive trees in ME today: Daesh around Kobane, Israeli right-wing settlers on West Bank http://t.co/w6S0PvVp91

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Fri 2 Jan 2015 03:45

“Art is a hamburger in the mouth of the bourgeoisie.” (Anonymous advertising defacing graffiti artist, NYC, c.1997.)

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Thu 1 Jan 2015 22:45

I don’t know, which version of the Biji Biji YPG song do people like the best? * https://t.co/ffqosamDeh or * https://t.co/s25l8z1ikZ

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Tue 30 Dec 2014 13:38

was silly enough to post detailed info about Rojava economics on libcom; was promptly denounced as a dupe & liar https://t.co/gO0tYDZpSH

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Mon 29 Dec 2014 21:56

Excellent Marxian critique of Latour by the excellent anthropologist Hylton White http://t.co/rnGjmVkSQH: https://t.co/YOWJFQl9OR

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Mon 29 Dec 2014 20:28

… the French transl (Comme si nous étions déjà libres). Now a Montreal band (Organ Mood) asked me if they could use it for an album title!

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Mon 29 Dec 2014 20:25

I feel vindicated! I wanted to call the Democracy book “as if we were already free.” Publisher laughed at me. But I did get to use it for…

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Mon 29 Dec 2014 02:00

I’ve gotten past the patient stage of flu to the bored stage, and from the bored stage to angry. Stop with the coughing!!!

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Mon 29 Dec 2014 01:57

I love London but London hates my body. Every winter I get three endless flus. This one has lasted 2 weeks & no sign of slackening.

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Sun 28 Dec 2014 19:04

hmm, trying to track down ethnographic examples of assemblies of delegates of over 100 people. I know there have been lots. Need specifics.

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Wed 24 Dec 2014 11:40

post 2 replies to @jricole, one asking why he left out other forces, which he’ll censor, another on KDP’s strategy, which he might not

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Wed 24 Dec 2014 11:16

but I’d bet anything that’s why the KDP which had been dithering for months & leaving Yezidis to die, finally sent in significant forces

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Wed 24 Dec 2014 11:15

I think what actually happened is Barzani panicked when Yezidis demanded autonomous canton & finally intervened, to head it off.

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Wed 24 Dec 2014 11:13

Gotta be intentional: @jricole once again publishes blog pretending YPG/PKK/HPS in Shengal don’t exist http://t.co/ebahntO5kG ….

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