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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Sun 20 Jan 2013 16:29

Maybe aliens have been observing the earth for years but haven’t made contact because they haven’t been able to decode any human language

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Sun 20 Jan 2013 13:27

why do so many undergraduate papers read like they’re written by space aliens? Inexplicable word choices, unrecognizable grammar…

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Fri 18 Jan 2013 19:37

Of course the institutional right always screws their radicals too but not on what allows them to exist and organize

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Fri 18 Jan 2013 19:36

mainstream Right understands this. If Left got as worked up about the 1st Amendment as Right gets about the 2nd, OWS’d still be in Zuccotti

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Fri 18 Jan 2013 19:34

But that means they can’t betray us instantly on basic existential issues like freedom of assembly

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Fri 18 Jan 2013 19:33

What progressives don’t understand is that they can’t get anywhere w/out having a radical left there to betray

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Fri 18 Jan 2013 14:49

Now I’m trying to decide which I prefer: Peirce/Whitehead’s argument natural laws are really “habits” or Bhaskar’s that they’re “tendencies”

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Wed 16 Jan 2013 10:29

People like Ortz & Dolan should be denied the company decent human beings forever. http://t.co/8vUw2NYW

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Tue 15 Jan 2013 12:21

I’m not religious, but militant atheists like Dawson irk me – they betray the spirit of open-mindedness that made their existence possible

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Mon 14 Jan 2013 14:22

“if someone is in need of knowledge & u can provide it, but u don’t, u are guilty of a crime against the human spirit” http://t.co/qY87q9Nn

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Mon 14 Jan 2013 14:16

In NYC I still have the plastic bullet that hit me on the head in Quebec City that Brad retrieved for me. Somehow I just want to touch it

Mon 14 Jan 2013 14:15

Aaron is the second person I actually knew who was killed for his ideals. The 1st was Brad WIll. Somehow I keep thinking of Brad too now

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Mon 14 Jan 2013 14:13

okay so I’m totally going to do all my unfinished grading from last term today. I so will not do anything else.

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Sat 12 Jan 2013 19:07

Not sure how I feel about all these young TEDx organizers wandering about w XEROX stamped on their backs

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Sat 12 Jan 2013 17:21

Trying to concentrate on TEDx but periodically unable due to sadness & anger over death of Aaron Swartz

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Fri 11 Jan 2013 16:45

is it austerity or British cultural traditions that few rooms are heated very well? Sleep in my sweater. Keep my coat on in my office…

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Thu 10 Jan 2013 23:18

I will be doing a Reddit AMA on January 28th at 10AM EST, 3PM GMT – for those who are into this sort of thing.

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Mon 7 Jan 2013 08:32

So have I ever had a flight w a connection where they DIDN’T lose my bags? It must have happened once

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Fri 4 Jan 2013 07:34

seems to be organized by a collective of young women who want it to be a kind of utopian eco-TED

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Fri 4 Jan 2013 07:34

aha – so it’s an alternative TED, or TEDx in the lingo, I now learn. To be held at Whitechapel.

Fri 4 Jan 2013 07:33

why I wonder if I should return to US academia: inflicting debt on students to pay parasitical administrators http://t.co/OstIUDxe

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