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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Sat 15 Aug 2020 01:30

(since it had already been established that the cops were, indeed, corruptible.) In fact, they already established what would really happen – they’d make the kid the fall guy – then threw in “oh & then they arrested all the other ones too” for the censors, then undid it

Sat 15 Aug 2020 01:27

only possible explanation I can think of is that the censors insisted all criminals must be arrested, but the director figured the audience would like those 2 criminals, so really Sam Spade was making sure they had the means to bribe the cops to get away

Sat 15 Aug 2020 01:26

ok so I watched the Maltese Falcon again last night & I couldn’t figure out the end. Why did Bogart graciously give Greenstreet back the $5000 when he was going to narc on him to get him & Peter Lorre arrested anyway?

Fri 14 Aug 2020 13:18

For someone who grew up speaking NY Yiddish-inflected English, It’s hard to walk through Berlin without repressing the urge to giggle at least once or twice a day https://t.co/mZILpcr365

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Wed 12 Aug 2020 23:03

exciting email! Yes I have just received $211.46 for the rights to the Persian edition of Bullshit Jobs. Well, they’re under massive economic sanctions, so I guess they’re a bit skint. https://t.co/pLKpVnfcJ6

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Wed 12 Aug 2020 22:13

for me the most disturbing element is that 40% of students don’t finish in 6 years. So more than half of Americans go to college but huge numbers never complete it. So they remain starving students doing casualized work forever, effectively

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Wed 12 Aug 2020 19:33

what the hell is wrong with America’s higher ed system? They charge students $35k a year placing them in debt for the rest of their life & then starve them? Where is all this money going? To sports stadiums? https://t.co/6IEUlbxJRd

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Wed 12 Aug 2020 11:31

ok everybody, prepare yourself for at least 9 months of annoying teasers from me & .@davidwengrow as we sit on our hands waiting for #TheDawnOfEverything to come out. Also do you think it we make a hashtag of the name it’ll seem fait accompli & they’ll let us use it?

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Wed 12 Aug 2020 11:28

best section heading so far in the upcoming .@davidwengrow book #TheDawnOfEverything 4.6in which we dispose of one particularly silly argument that foragers who settle in territories that lend themselves well to foraging are somehow unusual

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Tue 11 Aug 2020 20:01

Bureaucrats with weapons have just showed up to tell Stamtisch hosts they can only have people on the street up to two meters from the door – everyone else has to move inside (on the hottest day of the year) https://t.co/tvS4ceQguh

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Tue 11 Aug 2020 13:41

that wouldn’t be a bad slogan for the current generation: “Our Futures Have Been Stolen By Your Past” https://t.co/fRBdggqs5B

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Mon 10 Aug 2020 16:11

Just had an acupuncture session. Whenever they start sticking pins in me, I somehow feel there should be a wax doll in the corner that should start screaming.

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Sat 8 Aug 2020 11:39

you’ve probably seen this: don’t put your money in those banks that are funding the destruction of the planet https://t.co/4d1bdfadD3

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Fri 7 Aug 2020 09:05

it might sound corny but if you are feeling this way, celebrate it. Also good to remember that right now, you are almost certainly not experiencing airplane turbulence.

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Fri 7 Aug 2020 09:00

also I just want to tell the world: I woke up today & don’t feel sick (yet). I’m sitting here & neither my lungs or stomach or head are particularly bothering me. This is great! I am sitting in a cafe in Berlin & feeling like a normal human being more or less.

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Fri 7 Aug 2020 08:49

this is extremely important. We could have had a socialist government in 2017. Imagine how different the world would have been. These individuals are indirectly responsible for countless deaths from Yemen to Newcastle. https://t.co/VnuDqMN1nx

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Fri 7 Aug 2020 07:59

here is me in a Berlin kitchen reporting the book with .@davidwengrow is finished, and sampling a couple paragraphs about the great Franz Steiner #a4all https://t.co/IO4Efmq8gB

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Thu 6 Aug 2020 20:18

so .@davidwengrow and I just finished the book My brain feels bruised with numb surprise. It’s finished?

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Tue 4 Aug 2020 20:41

(hint: there is a case of a friend of mine who recently got publicly denounced by half my other friends because someone wrote a review of her book that said while she didn’t say something offensive in the book, the reviewer guessed she might have in an earlier draft.) 4/

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Tue 4 Aug 2020 20:32

which if you think about it is a paradox; lefties are supposedly universalists, but they divide into warring sects & viciously attack each other; righties are supposedly nationalist, but actually, they often show an instinctual solidarity even to nationalists of rival nations 3/

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Tue 4 Aug 2020 20:29

this surprised me slightly because I’d kind of assumed there was equal sectarianism on the right, just I hadn’t been exposed to it. He on the other hand spends a good deal of time comparing youtube rants, etc, & assured me that no, they really don’t 2/

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Tue 4 Aug 2020 20:26

I was talking to my step-son & he made the reasonable point that many young people look at the right, and the left, & the first thing they notice is that people on the left all seem to hate each other. Right-wingers spend much less of their time condemning each other publicly 1/

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