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 21 Aug 2013 16:29

I feel honored. RT @Lawrencews: @davidgraeber Douglas Adams on #bullshitjobs http://t.co/3LGed9VyG3

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Wed 21 Aug 2013 16:24

Good one! RT @danhind: But I did write this – http://t.co/J8PZyt5Av1 – which touches on some similar ideas @noelito

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Wed 21 Aug 2013 16:21

Mudede great as always. RT @mudede: Life After Economics: David Graeber on Bullshit Jobs http://t.co/0ODyUfmija via @StrangerSlog

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Tue 20 Aug 2013 18:33

Well put! RT @effigies: Middle class people are alienated from usefulness, lower class people from generosity. http://t.co/BtfMgKidK2

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Tue 20 Aug 2013 18:07

Wow “bulllshit jobs” is out in Korean, French and reportedly Russian. Others? I like to learn languages by reading my own stuff

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Mon 19 Aug 2013 19:37

Ouch! RT @DanielTutt: David Graeber’s essay on work hits the folk zeitgeist like a big belly-flop http://t.co/63yWb3RoV4

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Tue 13 Aug 2013 05:02

it’s really annoying me. I could have sworn I knew where it was, now I can’t find it anywhere. I’m overlooking something obvious!

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Tue 13 Aug 2013 05:01

(…) to Contribution to a Critique of the Pol Ec, in a footnote, but I can’t find it in any edition I can locate. Where is it really then?

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Tue 13 Aug 2013 05:00

(…) Judaea on religion, one needs to understand the material infrastructure to know why they were? I thought it was in the preface (…)

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Tue 13 Aug 2013 05:00

ok for all you Marx scholars out there: where did Marx say that while it’s true that ancient Greek civ was based on politics & ancient (…)

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Mon 12 Aug 2013 19:35

have to write an Afterward to a special issue of HAU on value theory. Wondering why the Terry Turner approach never took off.

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Thu 25 Jul 2013 19:54

Strike! Magazine summer issue is out is out! My piece is “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” http://t.co/czOkthFSsu

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Wed 24 Jul 2013 21:21

(…) with existing institutions that are all top down. But the conclusion flies in the face of history.

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Wed 24 Jul 2013 21:20

It makes sense it would come out of dissolution w radical egalitarian experiments – since the larger the scale, the more interface (….)

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Wed 24 Jul 2013 21:17

What I’m curious to learn us: when did conventional wisdom start? That egalitarianism only works on a small scale? It’s not THAT old an idea

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Wed 24 Jul 2013 21:16

Conventional wisdom gets this backwards – scale has rarely been the problem; households tho tend to be very unequal

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Wed 24 Jul 2013 21:15

I want to write something about “inequality from below” – how thru most of history small groups were more hierarchical than big ones

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Wed 10 Jul 2013 13:55

I wanted to call the book “As If We Were Already Free”, then “The Mob Began to Think And Reason” – both titles were nuked though

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Wed 10 Jul 2013 05:49

(…) exactly what so many US liberal commentators blast me for as paranoid. He said “but from anywhere but the US, it’s just so obvious.”

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Wed 10 Jul 2013 05:48

L’Express interviewer today praised my analysis of connection of US military power & the dominance of the dollar. I remarked “That’s (…)

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Sat 6 Jul 2013 18:50

Activist food torture: being block away from all favorite dimsum in NYC but yet again having to go to boring veggie dimsum place instead

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Fri 5 Jul 2013 14:37

actually not a bad song even if Direct Action wasn’t in the video http://t.co/uaz10qrQz4 …

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