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 29 Aug 2014 23:07

Activist who was holding “Spectre of Marx” shield in famous pic takes pic of pic on display at Victpria & Albert show http://t.co/Al5Nlvccf2

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Thu 28 Aug 2014 21:32

If people are going to build pyramids at all, then there will be at least 3 of them, & they will get progressively bigger. AS Magnason.

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Thu 28 Aug 2014 15:15

of earth from one place to another and back again—I believe the convict would hang himself in a few days or would commit a thousand (3/4)

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Thu 28 Aug 2014 15:15

(useless & irrational character…. If he had to pour water into one vessel and back, over and over again, to pound sand, to move a heap (2/4)

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Thu 28 Aug 2014 15:15

The idea occurred to me that if one wanted to crush, to annihilate a man utterly… one need only give him work of an absolutely (1/4)

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Tue 26 Aug 2014 16:44

trying to find something in Dostoevsky: anyone out there know in which book he talks of convicts shorn of all hair?

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Sun 3 Aug 2014 17:39

finally had a moment of vacation so I read C. Stross’ Neptunes’ Brood. So great. Lovely that the bat ends up in a romance with the mermaid

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Sat 2 Aug 2014 23:50

part of the idea is finding future history timelines detailed enough – either in one author (Niven…) or universe (Star Trek…)

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Sat 2 Aug 2014 23:39

I think it would be fun to have a list of different scifi universes concocted in ’60s & ’70s & what they thought we’d be doing now

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Sat 2 Aug 2014 23:38

okay new crowdsource: anyone have links to outmoded scifi timelines. I.e., in Star Trek we had the eugenetics wars in ’90s…

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Tue 29 Jul 2014 09:54

in same piece: almost 1 out of every 1000 US workers now work in “the collections industry” (140 thou out of c145 million)

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Sat 26 Jul 2014 20:30

boy if pro-rightwing Israeli gov trolls think I’m not going to block them, they’re very silly people

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Thu 24 Jul 2014 10:20

anybody remember who it was made the point that the biggest producers of patents, in 19C England, were rural vicars?

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Tue 22 Jul 2014 21:40

just got an email soliciting work for a new art journal that began “Dear Slavoj, David, & Judith…” Does this mean I’ve officially arrived?

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Tue 22 Jul 2014 13:28

I’m still not sure of the pop culture element that’ll be in #3 – #1 has Holmes v Bond, #2 has Star Trek… maybe my Batman stuff?

Tue 22 Jul 2014 13:26

then comes essay #3 which is going to be called “The Utopia of Rules” about games, play, and bureaucracy, our secretly love for it

Tue 22 Jul 2014 13:25

on to redraft original long version of Flying Cars – fun work as it’s old enough to be not totally familiar, recent enough to be easy to do

Tue 22 Jul 2014 13:22

okay, so I finished the redraft of chapter 2, which is essay #1, the new Dead Zones of the Imagination!