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 18 Jul 2014 15:17

Which sounds better as a name for the current age: “the age of total bureaucratisation” or “the age of predatory bureaucratisation “?

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Wed 16 Jul 2014 00:46

oh that’s interesting! now I’m getting responses to that last tweet but everything before that is June 4th still

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Mon 14 Jul 2014 09:14

Netanyahu knew boys were dead within hours of their deaths, and that Hamas hadn’t ordered it: http://t.co/JsDCJp9YSf

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Sun 13 Jul 2014 20:58

He’s already been uninvited to events in his own discipline because people are concluding he’s crazy. Go on, Brad, dig yourself deeper

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Sun 13 Jul 2014 20:56

crazy stalker guy is at it again. Can delong not know how much he is destroying his intellectual credibility with this weird obsession?

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Sun 13 Jul 2014 16:16

If I ate a blackberry from the churchyard in which John Dee was buried what’s the chance a molecule once part of his body passed into mine?

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Sun 13 Jul 2014 14:16

Roy Bhaskar & I have been discussing a research project on the social construction of lack of empathy. How do we teach people not to care?

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Fri 11 Jul 2014 17:09

I have harrowed hell (which is somewhere near Wembly) and returned with a biometric residency card.

Thu 10 Jul 2014 15:43

A strange toothless German person approached me today to tell me only I could redeem LSE. Then he told me to eat less because I’m fat.

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Thu 10 Jul 2014 14:51

the old days of talking about bands, tribes & chiefdom are over! People moved back & forth between diff “stages” at different times of year

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Thu 10 Jul 2014 14:49

My buddy David Wengrow reports our paper of hunter gatherer seasonality was greeted as a revolutionary moment in Cologne.

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Thu 10 Jul 2014 12:50

British people seem secretly proud they’re so bad at bureaucracy; Americans, embarrassed they’re so good at it.

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Thu 10 Jul 2014 12:05

All rich countries now employ legions of functionaries whose primary function is to make poor people feel bad about themselves

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Mon 7 Jul 2014 22:03

I’ve got it! Not the “liberal paradox” – that market reforms bring more bureaucracy. Call it “the iron law of liberalism”

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Mon 7 Jul 2014 10:30

I’m also thinking of making a list of bureaucratic behaviours that we no longer recognise as such.

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Sun 6 Jul 2014 20:57

(..) to call this “the libertarian paradox.” Or should I call it “the liberal paradox”? Is that too antiquated a usage now?

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Sun 6 Jul 2014 20:56

(2) more complex regulations, (3) larger zones of human life that fall under rubric of state regulations, and hence, violence. I propose

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Sun 6 Jul 2014 20:55

I think I will coin a phrase. It is an historical fact that gov’t embrace of “pro-market” policies always means (1) more bureaucrats,

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Sun 6 Jul 2014 15:48

Should I get a bearskin rug (with stuffed head!) for my LSE office? So far friends’ votes are running 9 for, 5 against.