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 Nov 2013 10:44

oh my what have I got myself into – article on animal play soon to be coming out in @thebafflermag

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Wed 27 Nov 2013 11:32

still getting over being lectured on my “privilege” for having grown up in a Union coop. My mom was a factory worker. Ergo I’m privileged.

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Mon 18 Nov 2013 19:09

apparently whether ant colonies really engage in mock wars vs each other just fun is somewhat mooted. But likely true.

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Sun 17 Nov 2013 22:10

I mean if there actually were any mad toothpaste bombers, even one, in all human history, that’d be one thing.

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Sun 17 Nov 2013 22:10

all right I’ll admit it: I snuck an unauthorized tube of toothpaste thru airport security in my bag. And I’m not sorry!

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Sun 17 Nov 2013 22:08

that was really kind of depressing, the way the plenary was organized last night, almost as if to prevent real discussion

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Sun 17 Nov 2013 10:24

ok that’s it – next talk, organizers ONCE AGAIN booked me on a 3-middleaged-white-guys-discuss-pol-econ panel. I’m giving up. Not doing it.

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Fri 15 Nov 2013 16:06

do I want to see the Malevich exhibition or go straight to de Baile for a meeting of participants in this Amsterdam conference thing?

Thu 14 Nov 2013 11:39

woke from night of continual nervous housing dreams. Seemed to center on vainly trying to prove I deserved to have a home.

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Thu 14 Nov 2013 11:06

strange how much difference knowing you have a home base makes. Knowing I’ll lose mine makes it almost impossible to plan my own movements.

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Wed 13 Nov 2013 15:56

I was thinking of making byline for my upcoming Baffler piece “David (‘the Neutral Monist’) Graeber” but not sure anyone will get the joke

Thu 7 Nov 2013 23:34

Im wondering if I didn’t just ignore the trollish jibes as an unconscious way to make it psychologically easier to leave America

Thu 7 Nov 2013 17:24

what n odd morning. Alternate between throwing vestiges of my childhood down incinerator & watching people attack me for expressing emotions

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Thu 7 Nov 2013 16:09

I say stupidly because actual solidarity could improve situation of all immeasurably, but they are capable only of a politics of resentment

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Thu 7 Nov 2013 16:08

US academics seem to include some of the nastiest, & most stupidly nasty, human beings I’ve ever encountered

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Thu 7 Nov 2013 01:40

now I’m being hounded out of NYC & thus the US entirely, it seems. But I can still remember that feeling & how much I wanted to believe it

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Thu 7 Nov 2013 01:38

And of course sure enough CUNY didn’t look at me, the coop that promised to straighten everything out turned around & began eviction…

Thu 7 Nov 2013 01:38

I suddenly had this warm feeling, maybe I actually would be able to stay in my own city, my own home… but I was afraid to believe it.

Thu 7 Nov 2013 01:37

I can still remember, less than two years ago, I had ppl pushing for me for a job at CUNY, coop said they’d to officialize my status…

Wed 6 Nov 2013 22:28

they’re terrorizing a lot of the old folk who live here, accusing them of “clutter” & moving to evict, knowing they’re unlikely to fight

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Wed 6 Nov 2013 22:27

they got the city to agree to triple equity requirements so now they’re trying to kick out everyone they possibly can

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Wed 6 Nov 2013 22:27

I am severely depressed. Penn South coops seem absolutely determined to kick me out of my family home. Only permanent address I’ve ever had.

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