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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Wed 12 Nov 2014 13:51

maybe we never actually recover from any disease, they just shrink back to the point you can’t detect them any more?

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Wed 12 Nov 2014 13:50

whole Zeno’s flu phenomenon (50% better every day still means you’ll never fully recover) makes me wonder: are we ever cured of anything?

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Tue 11 Nov 2014 14:36

sorry to outsource this but: who is the best living UK-based scholar of Cortes or of the Conquistadores in general in people’s opinion?

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Mon 10 Nov 2014 14:03

I have Zeno’s flu. Each day I’m 20% better. So at this rate I’ll never get well, but after a month I’ll be so close I won’t notice.

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Mon 10 Nov 2014 12:13

I have Xeno’s flu. Each day I’m 20% better. So at this rate I’ll never get well, but after a month I’ll be so close I won’t notice it.

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Mon 10 Nov 2014 03:02

massive documentation of Turkish logistical, economic, intelligence, medical, recruiting, & training help to ISIS http://t.co/p3z91eiYfM

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Sun 9 Nov 2014 12:08

it’s actually a book of essays, it is in no sense a history, and, for instance, says basically nothing about the ancient world

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Sun 9 Nov 2014 12:07

Incidentally, this Amazon description of the contents of my bureaucracy book is utterly, completely inaccurate: http://t.co/4P6rK0je1Y

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Sat 8 Nov 2014 18:14

Turkey arrests police officials investigating funding for Al Qaeda and ISIS http://t.co/cmjYlGEaw4

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Sat 8 Nov 2014 11:46

best analysis of Dem electoral rout – US Dems ideologically committed to neoliberalism, Repubs pure opportunists http://t.co/M2Ei6AecNh

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Sat 8 Nov 2014 02:02

can’t tweet this too much: Switzerland passes law against humiliation of plants. http://t.co/i1oLg1RPuw

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Thu 6 Nov 2014 22:57

friend told me FSA last year offered Assad regime exact location of IS HQs in exchange for stopping barrel-bombing civilians. Regime refused

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Thu 6 Nov 2014 19:42

hey! @BiellaColeman and @doctorow gave a talk in London on Tuesday and nobody even told me!!!!

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Thu 6 Nov 2014 18:01

Turkish troops on Kobane border fire live ammunition at artists’ solidarity group, killing one. http://t.co/Ud19m91Xu1

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Wed 5 Nov 2014 21:41

hmm, apparently my French publisher wants to do a comic book version of Debt. (Said “graphic novel” but it’s not fiction! Cartoon version?)

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Tue 4 Nov 2014 15:20

Is Capitalism Part of the Answer? Find out the amazing answer in “Capitalism is Not Part of the Answer” https://t.co/woPSrnTXpl

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Tue 4 Nov 2014 00:34

Just had a convo with a fellow US expat about how much we like “1066 & all that” & how most Brits don’t seem to know it

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Mon 3 Nov 2014 14:43

filled out @LSE time alloc survey. No category for writing books & articles (unless for teaching). Is scholarship now leisure for scholars?

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Mon 3 Nov 2014 14:30

“Disillusioned Rudeboys: Jihadi Recruits & the Machine of Capitalism.” Great Isabel Millar talk yesterday. http://t.co/b4ANv1TpEo …

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Mon 3 Nov 2014 00:51

if there’s anything worse than being pushed around by your boss it’s being pushed around by a boss who insists you pretend you’re happy

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Mon 3 Nov 2014 00:29

… own workers actually think of him. He’s living in a dreamworld, with workers too scared to tell him what they really think.

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