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 14 Jul 2019 14:59

so this shows in the first 2 years of Corbyn, BEFORE the AS line started being pushed, AS was decreasing rapidly in the LP & society as a whole. Be very interesting to see what’s happening in 2019 – I strongly suspect the media furore has reversed this progress & made AS worse https://t.co/Calg5ap7Be

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Sat 13 Jul 2019 14:31

(don’t get me wrong, I don’t feel very physically endangered. But I can imagine it becoming physically dangerous, and I just didn’t see that as a possibility anyplace I lived in the past.)

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Sat 13 Jul 2019 12:59

Living in the UK is the first time in my life I felt genuinely physically endangered as a Jewish person, and I lay this directly at the feet of cynics like Margaret Hodge & Tom Watson. It’s as if they are trying to create the antisemitism they pretend to decry.

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Fri 12 Jul 2019 09:51

this was perhaps the most rt statement I ever made, it’s been made into memes, discussed widely. Yet every attempt I have made to write a similar article for the mainstream press has been systematically turned down. Apparently in the UK, no Jew is allowed to say this. https://t.co/rTpAwqGYmZ

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Thu 11 Jul 2019 10:30

Americans: here is the face of the man who is fighting every day to ensure you don’t have affordable health care & your children will live in an ecological catastrophe. Isn’t that just exactly what he should look like? https://t.co/po3ca04u4D

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Wed 10 Jul 2019 11:38

even if you search for an expression which contains a quote (e.g., “are said to ‘own’ their…”, the quote marks are not searched for

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Wed 10 Jul 2019 11:33

Help! I am throwing myself on the good offices of my twitter followers. I want to search ethnographies for places where the word “owns” appears in quotation marks. How do you search for something that’s already in quotes? I tried “”owns”” and ‘”owns”‘ and ” “owns” ” etc. No dice.

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Tue 9 Jul 2019 21:19

trying to catch up on my philosophy – I seem to have ended up faced with taking careful notes on Mehdi Belhaj Kacem’s 25 page summary of Total Recall, in French. Maybe I’ll just watch the movie again instead.

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Sun 7 Jul 2019 18:07

oh yeah and Tom Watson. Man that slimeball makes me mad. I have a deep, abiding, visceral hatred for Tom Watson. There, I said it. I think his cynical adoption of antisemitism as a political weapon endangers me as a Jew. I hate him. So lock me up.

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Sun 7 Jul 2019 18:03

it seems most people in France hate Macron, which is one reason he feels making hatred illegal is so important. I myself also hate Sir Richard Branson, Rupert Murdock, and obviously Tony Blair.

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Sun 7 Jul 2019 17:57

perhaps we should all write a little about things we hate before it’s made illegal. First of all, I HATE centrist politicians. Well, all politicians. But especially the centrists, I HATE those guys.

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Sun 7 Jul 2019 17:56

“French Parliament has moved toward a new law that would give internet companies like Facebook and Google just 24 hours to remove hateful speech from their sites or face fines of $1.4 million per violation” I don’t know about you but I HATE this decision https://t.co/RBADnSSJFl

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Sun 7 Jul 2019 17:54

all surveys confirm that centrists are far more opposed to democracy, freedom of speech and other basic civic rights, than either right- or left-wingers https://t.co/aQzZcEKBc7

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Sun 30 Jun 2019 16:15

People sometimes ask how’d you deal with corporations w/out a state. W/out a state & its legal structure there are no corporations. They’d just be gangs. The Medellín “cartel” isn’t a cartel, it’s precisely that: a corporation outside the legal framework of the state.

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Sun 30 Jun 2019 11:20

so to repeat: the accusations are NOT anonymous, the “investigation” consisted of an attempt to intimidate the survivors into silence & to investigate the possibility of legal retaliation (I wasn’t the only person, apparently, they considered suing.) #hautalk

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Sun 30 Jun 2019 11:08

so claiming these are anonymous “rumours” & have been proved false is simply a lie. The survivors were intimidated into silence. The message sent was: “if this is what happens to a famous senior scholar like DG for a private letter, just imagine what will happen to you!” #hautalk

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Sun 30 Jun 2019 11:04

according to “hauleaks” the “investigation” so regularly referred to by GdC was conducted by McGranahan after this; it concluded the allegations must be false as no one would come forward by name, & concluded by investigating the possibility of suing me for defamation! #hautlk

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Sun 30 Jun 2019 11:01

GdC and some allies then went on to claim that it was in fact me who was circulating this very letter in an attempt to “defame” HAU. (In fact I never showed it to anyone except some of the survivors for confirmation/approval beforehand.) #hautalk

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Sun 30 Jun 2019 10:57

The private email to GdC was then circulated to others, apparently, by McGranahan & at least once by Michael Lambek, despite my clear & repeated objections that it was a private letter & I did not give permission for them to have it. #hautalk

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Sun 30 Jun 2019 10:54

McGranahan replied that my term had expired several months before & people had only just noticed & it was a total coincidence it was 3 hours after I’d asked GdC to resign. In other words, she effectively affirmed they would certainly retaliate. So I refused to give names #hautalk

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Sun 30 Jun 2019 10:49

we had plenty of names, dates, & details but obviously I wasn’t going to give names if there was a danger of retaliation & GdC was constantly threatening to destroy lives & careers. So I asked: “what was the process used to remove my name from the masthead?” #hautalk

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Sun 30 Jun 2019 10:48

I then received a message from McGranahan demanding evidence for the allegations. I told her it was a private email & I had not given permission for her to read it, & she brushed this off. She demanded names of accusers. #hautalk

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Sun 30 Jun 2019 10:46

finally, on a cc list consisting of just me, GdC & Marshall Sahlins, I listed some of the allegations, said I believed them, & asked GdC to step down. GdC replied he would cut off all contact with me & a few hours later my name mysteriously vanished from the masthead #hautalk

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Sun 30 Jun 2019 10:42

since I was one of those most directly involved with the journal, even if not in management role, I tried to take the lead reaching out to convince other staff that GdC had to be removed & held accountable – I hit a total wall & absolutely failed #hautalk

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Sun 30 Jun 2019 10:40

for almost a year prior to the matter becoming public, a group of older scholars who were or had been involved in HAU, myself included, who had become aware of a pattern of extreme abuse carried out in our name, gathered testimonies & tried to do something about it #hautalk

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Sun 30 Jun 2019 10:37

I am so tired of seeing HAU let GdC constantly repeat these claims that these are “anonymous” accusations & that he was exonerated by investigation. These are outright lies & at this point that HAU editors must be aware of it. This is what really happened. #hautalk https://t.co/HC9RapOxy1

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Fri 28 Jun 2019 08:06

hmm, this is the best I could find in print, neglects to mention GA Graeber was universally known as “Dolly” & is actually the man who introduced the mandolin into American music. My dad was from a later marriage. https://t.co/cIjitb2YOU

Fri 28 Jun 2019 07:44

off to Leipzig. Family history recounts my great-great-grandfather, Johan Graeber, a shoemaker from Bartenstein, E. Prussia, fought in the battle there – his unit was “1st over the wall” & only c.40% survived. I’ve never found an account of the battle that mentions a wall though.

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