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 4 Sep 2019 21:14

I’m finding it kind of fascinating that so many people have either never heard of, or reject the very notion of cultural criticism or ideological analysis. https://t.co/fFlUrAvxHA

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Wed 4 Sep 2019 18:17

twitter is an odd medium. If you throw out ideas about a movie you just saw, you’ll get some interesting responses. But you’ll also get dozens of strangers who seem to honestly feel that you will be interested to know that they think movie criticism is itself a pointless exercise

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Wed 4 Sep 2019 13:31

I mean if we’re going to be ruled by comedians, can’t they at least be GOOD comedians? Now if Frankie Boyle were PM… https://t.co/stL1zKg3H3

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Tue 3 Sep 2019 22:32

so the message seems to be that you, the wimpy audience, are hypocrites for objecting to screen violence because why are you watching this anyway, you deserve what you get, which is to have your face smashed in (figuratively or literally), I the director have transcended this 11/

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Tue 3 Sep 2019 22:29

that’s exactly what they are. The audience. They’re all in a circle at a safe distance watching Brad Pitt (justifiably) beat one of the hippies up. They’re never violent themselves. It’s just you know they’re the Manson family so you’re terrified they will be. 10/

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Tue 3 Sep 2019 22:27

and then has the Manson kids NOT kill her because they decide instead to go after purveyors of cinematic violence, they are indignant about their role as the audience. Which… come to think of it, in the only other violent scene in the movie, at the Spahn ranch 9/

Tue 3 Sep 2019 22:23

but the most evil manipulative thing is all the scenes with Sharon Tate. Because obviously the director is forcing you to imagine her getting brutally murdered, which he then makes not happen, so as to make you, the audience, the one who’s guilty of the crime 8/

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Tue 3 Sep 2019 22:21

(he’s also careful to make him the oppressed proletarian who lives in a Trailer and practically eats dog food, though of course in the end it’s macaroni and cheese… the dog food with which he kills the wimpy hippie kids) 7/

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Tue 3 Sep 2019 22:17

how can you justify identifying with a guy who was the scary jock in High School while he completely pulverises the kids who were the freaks and nerds? Because they’re the Manson Family. They were the kind of people who diced apart a pregnant woman (though here, they didn’t) 6/

Tue 3 Sep 2019 22:14

or even more, forcing the audience to identify with the bully. The Hollywood movie takes this to the most extreme form by having you revel in watching a buff movie stuntman beat a bunch of wimpy stringy hippies, mostly girls, to a bloody pulp 5/

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Tue 3 Sep 2019 22:13

because, come on, it’s Jews vs Nazis, or slaves vs plantation owners, etc. That’s all obvious. But the subtext I think is that Tarantino is basically a kid who was presumably bullied in school, who is now coming up with ways to either be the bully (toying with his audience) 4/

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Tue 3 Sep 2019 22:08

… of course, where settlers were involved in outright genocide, though the violence is usually displaced onto other settlers). So Tarantino has become all about creating situations where you can root for and identify with those committing acts of sadistic violence 3/

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Tue 3 Sep 2019 22:05

his movies, especially his later ones, are all Westerns in one way or another – & someone observed the whole point of a Western is to create a situation so extreme that a decent person is justified in doing absolutely awful things. (This is appropriate to the frontier … 2/

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Tue 3 Sep 2019 22:02

Ok, Tarantino. I’ve been trying to figure out what really irritates me about that guy (aside from the condescending manipulativeness which actually made me walk out of Pulp Fiction when it came out…) – I think after watching OUATIH I figured it out 1/

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Sun 1 Sep 2019 15:09

This is a fascinating political moment in the UK. The Tory right seems to be trying to manoeuvre the left into allying with the liberal elite and the professional-managerial proceduralists, to make them seem identical to the dysfunctional & corrupt political class & bureaucracy

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Tue 27 Aug 2019 16:45

fascinating: 37% of Americans claim they watch TV on the job. That corresponds exactly to the percent of people in the UK who say their jobs make no meaningful contribution. https://t.co/7JiwvbYu80

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Sun 25 Aug 2019 16:56

So as I was in the ferry in the marina in Bay Shore there was a cabin cruiser docked there named “Strength & Honor.” And I thought for Gods sake man it’s a pleasure craft – you’re not killing anyone. Then I noticed the boat next to it was called “Calm Down.”

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Fri 16 Aug 2019 22:56

why is it otherwise smart people find this so difficult to grasp? If average life expectancy is 33, that doesn’t mean you’re unlikely to make it past 33. It probably means you have a 50% chance of dying before you’re 5, but otherwise likely to last to 66. https://t.co/1TVrGiC2V7

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Sun 11 Aug 2019 11:50

hey .@virginmedia i’ve had no wireless service for two days now (I’m in W10 area in London). Occasionally it comes on for a few minutes and dies. You’ve cost me oodles since I’ve had to do everything by phone & I keep running out of data & buying new.

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Thu 8 Aug 2019 01:25

Were you at Seattle? I just missed it. Call for reflections 20 years later. https://t.co/V7iaHOC1Pd

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Wed 7 Aug 2019 15:34

I understand there’s no specific individual who said to himself “I have a vision! I see a whole mile of Euston road over which a man carrying an empty beverage container can walk w/out finding a single bin in which to throw it.” https://t.co/D2jueNmlnu really wonder: how?

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Tue 6 Aug 2019 02:16

oh here’s the essay 2014 – Werner, Richard A. (2014). “Can banks individually create money out of nothing? — the theories and the empirical evidence”. International Review of Financial Analysis. 36: 1–19. doi:10.1016/j.irfa.2014.07.015.

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Tue 6 Aug 2019 02:07

does anyone know anything about Richard Werner the economist? He’s the fellow who wrote this excellent essay establishing empirically that banks do indeed create money out of nothing. I suddenly notice he’s also the guy who came up with the idea of “Quantitative Easing”

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Mon 5 Aug 2019 20:23

Yup, it’s Tom Watson repeating the blood libel and Margaret Hodge mocking the Orthodox community. Both have been named in antisemitism complaints to the Labour Party. https://t.co/lq6NXoIpIi https://t.co/ga4mzanffI

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Sun 4 Aug 2019 18:27

Stupid gum hygiene – something went terribly wrong with one of the devices and now since Wednesday my mouth is full of sores & walking for more than 15 minutes exhausts me.