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 3 Oct 2014 22:54

still, in street-to-street warfare the heavy weapons will make less difference & the defenders will have the advantage of local knowledge

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Fri 3 Oct 2014 22:53

they say there are 20,000 defender but they have only rifles; ISIL has 8000 but they have tanks & heavy artillery

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Fri 3 Oct 2014 22:52

Talked to Kurdish hunger strikers across from 10 Downing Street today; defenders of Kobane are preparing now for street-to-street warfare

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Thu 2 Oct 2014 11:55

apparently the Peshmerga just fled Sinjar w no warning, leaving Yezidis in the lurch http://t.co/Een9Cp5Z0O

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Thu 2 Oct 2014 11:45

apparently when the Peshmerga were driven out of Sinjar the PKK/YPG guerrillas intervened & opened a rescue corridor http://t.co/Zlgw54D1g6

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Thu 2 Oct 2014 11:42

so here’s one of the women who rescued the Yazidis on Mt Sinjar. Presumably she is currently besieged in Rojava http://t.co/zEYT8Kypmi

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Thu 2 Oct 2014 11:07

ever wonder whatever happened to all those Yazidi refugees trapped on Mt. Sinjar? http://t.co/SmoUgcvuJa https://t.co/6O9TPxnMxH

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Wed 1 Oct 2014 17:22

would it be accurate to say that the Pythagoreans were the 1st in the Western trad at least to propound rationality as an abstract ideal?

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Wed 1 Oct 2014 14:39

though Maurice Bloch disagrees, he says he thinks British foxes have undergone a genetic mutation of some sort

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Wed 1 Oct 2014 14:39

we agreed it’s probably because rich French & Italians don’t put on silly outfits & go to woods to massacre foxes. It’s safer here in London

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Wed 1 Oct 2014 14:37

just had convo with Brian Eno about that ancient question: why do UK foxes live in cities, but not French or Italian ones?

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Wed 1 Oct 2014 11:21

I think I have convinced the editor of the Baffler to do a fashion issue. This could be fun! I will submit my ancient article on neckties.

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Mon 29 Sep 2014 20:48

remember reading that when one of the early Pythagoreans discovered irrational numbers, they took him on a cruise & dropped him in the ocean

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Sun 28 Sep 2014 22:13

I have a friend who went to the Woodrow Wilson School of public policy at Princeton who swore to me he took a course in value-free ethics.

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Sat 27 Sep 2014 12:40

1st thought: saying person is “rational” is just saying they’re not crazy. Saying ones politics r based on “rationality” =ultimate arrogance

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Sat 27 Sep 2014 12:09

now on to section about rationality as a form of spirituality or even mysticism. Han Joas’ Gnostic Religion helpful here.

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Sat 27 Sep 2014 12:09

I have finally finished my section about the historical impact of the 19C German post office (among other things model for USSR)

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Sat 27 Sep 2014 11:35

Some friends had idea to study mechanisms by which natural human instincts for empathy r unlearned. Twitter might be a good place to start

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Fri 26 Sep 2014 00:33

okay 1 last time boys & girls: if you say someone was “inadvertently” doing cops work for them, that’s saying they’re NOT a cop

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Fri 26 Sep 2014 00:30

I cannot believe that so many people don’t know what the word “inadvertently” means. Makes me despair.

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Thu 25 Sep 2014 18:57

fact that months later, Jacobin types are still campaigning to attack a woman for suggesting they had it in for her rather proves her point

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Wed 24 Sep 2014 12:57

looking to buy Mark Ames’ “Going Postal” on UK Amazon. Says “1 New from £3,814.77 12 Used from £0.01.” Which shall I choose?

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Mon 22 Sep 2014 20:50

as I noted to Thiel, what if the potential inventor of cold fusion is working in a Nike factory in Indonesia because of her father’s debts?

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