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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Wed 6 Nov 2013 18:05

Usually I’m suspicious of rights discourse but it would be interesting to imagine a society where everyone knew they had rights

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Wed 6 Nov 2013 16:46

because if I were to say that to anyone I owed $ to as a result, that would definitely happen

Wed 6 Nov 2013 16:45

if your publisher says “sorry we can’t pay you this quarter due to cash flow problems” do you have a right to charge them late fees?

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Wed 6 Nov 2013 14:55

It’s amazing how much of ones time in the US is spent being told why you don’t have a right to something.

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Wed 6 Nov 2013 06:08

I think the worst thing about being persecuted is that you have to think about the assholes doing it all the time

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Tue 5 Nov 2013 18:03

incidentally I finally saw WWZ on the airplane. Wow, if that isn’t the most reactionary movie ever!

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Tue 5 Nov 2013 13:59

Sticking it to the bailliff: The Debt-Resistors Operations Manual from @StrikeDebt http://t.co/cSqlD8MKer

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Tue 5 Nov 2013 04:23

Why is it every institution in the US from academia to the Penn South housing coop treats me like dirt, but the UK is actually nice to me?

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Sun 3 Nov 2013 11:48

I always said if you want to totally paralyze US intelligence, just tell them everything about everybody. http://t.co/pbL8WcpS4T

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Sat 2 Nov 2013 01:40

(…) to be “radicals” of some sort, but why bother? It would be either preaching to the converted, or whistling in the wind

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Sat 2 Nov 2013 01:40

(…) of debate, as especially brought home in vilification of ordinary union tactics by those who no doubt sincerely think themselves (…)

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Sat 2 Nov 2013 01:39

I suppose I could give a whole analysis of how professional-managerial class sensibilities are reproduced in academia thru standards (…)

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Fri 1 Nov 2013 16:21

As of today, UCU is calling on members to “work to contract” until contract dispute is resolve http://t.co/sfZWwx87i8

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Fri 1 Nov 2013 11:21

1) follow orders; 2) don’t tell if a colleague does something abusive; at Yale the word “ethics” was never used in any other context

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Fri 1 Nov 2013 11:19

the Yale dept when I was there worked on mafia morality. 2 rules: respect your superior, don’t spill the beans. (“Confidentiality”)

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Fri 1 Nov 2013 11:15

I can understand not wanting to rat someone out to authorities, but when they ARE the authorities??

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Fri 1 Nov 2013 11:12

there seems a widespread feeling that those who publicly reveal wrongdoing are by definition worse than those who do it

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Fri 1 Nov 2013 11:12

listening to that guy Ryan I begin to understand why whistleblowers are persecuted in the USA.

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Thu 31 Oct 2013 21:48

(I really don’t know what all this has to do w a guy who refused to move an academic talk off campus in solidarity w fellow teachers)

Sun 27 Oct 2013 13:03

I’ve been asked to become a columnist for Foreign Policy. Given its readership this feels a bit too much like joining the other side.

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Fri 25 Oct 2013 16:05

you know I really have to learn to treat this intense hostility on the part of so many liberals as the honor that it ultimately is

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Wed 23 Oct 2013 19:54

Okay everybody what do you think: Bullshit Jobs, the Book? Should I do it? A short book. French and German publishers are interested.

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Sat 19 Oct 2013 12:08

never ceases to make me happy that there is a journal in Shanghai called “Chutzpah” http://t.co/aAPs7BwIR7

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