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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Thu 21 Mar 2019 08:58

typical pattern: the media decides a movement is so unimportant they don’t even cover it any more. The government simultaneously decides the same movement is so important they need to call out the army… https://t.co/BcbnPq0FiT

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Wed 20 Mar 2019 13:55

.@davidwengrow just came up with the perfect title for our new book on prehistory – “We Have Never Been Stupid” (must say it here because they’ll never let us use it.)

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Sat 16 Mar 2019 22:18

this is going to be fun: how will the media find a way to get around referring to him as a fascist terrorist when he actually calls himself a fascist terrorist? They will find a way. https://t.co/zpT9aTszFa

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Sat 16 Mar 2019 22:15

ironically the most prominent person who has is the spokesman for Erdogan, himself perhaps the world’s most notable purveyor of fascist state terrorism today. I guess it takes one to know one. https://t.co/demdUSYkVO

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Sat 16 Mar 2019 21:28

which is what it should be called – some headlines have gone so far as to say “terrorism” but I haven’t seen “fascist terrorism” yet, though if this doesn’t qualify for that, hard to see what does https://t.co/AKvS2urmhO

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Sat 16 Mar 2019 13:37

3/ so it feels a bit ironic that nowadays the ways I am most frequently publicly excoriated are: a. for being a member of a “privileged fraternal elite”, & b. for having teeth that are still not completely straightened & capped

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Sat 16 Mar 2019 13:36

2/ I could only afford proper dental care when I was almost 40; I keenly remember losing two teeth in grad school, despite working 2 sometimes 3 jobs, & when I complained profs would say “ah so you see yourself as coming from a WC background?” Like it’s all in your head you see.

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Sat 16 Mar 2019 13:30

1/ I understand I’m a senior prof in a major university now, but you know I am a guy of working class origins who got kicked out of his own country’s academic system entirely for revolutionary politics (not just professing but at least occasionally acting on them),

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Mon 11 Mar 2019 17:16

Wednesday I’ll be at #MaydayRooms (88 Fleet Street) to listen to Ilona Otto on shifting some of the responsibility for Climate change to the people who are actually causing the problem https://t.co/yxPlkcoSoH … https://t.co/UUsUxdsGFJ …

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Thu 7 Mar 2019 15:57

Come to the #LSEClimateStrike, March 15, 11/11:30 AM at Sheffield Street (that’s outside the Student Union). It’s important.

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Thu 7 Mar 2019 12:43

very good piece on how purported concern for AS (bogus “philosemitism” for political advantage) is facilitating a revival of real antisemitism https://t.co/nxcW0BvKHE

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Thu 7 Mar 2019 11:46

Okay once again it looks like I must try to write my piece about how the AS campaign vs Labour is itself AS. But where? Guardian, New Statesman, etc all rejected my proposal last time. But a mainstream venue would be really called for here.

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Wed 6 Mar 2019 22:17

so 4 days now & .@BBCNews still refuses to report that the head of the opposition party was punched to the ground by a right-winger during a public event over the weekend. BBC bias was already a national disgrace but becoming an accessory to pol violence is a genuine new low.

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Tue 5 Mar 2019 14:31

Aha! so the PM announces cops don’t really prevent crime. Is she now a police abolitionist? Why have them at all if they make no difference? https://t.co/iKqmSDBHa5

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Tue 5 Mar 2019 09:57

hey .@bbcnews why have you still refused to report that someone punched the leader of the opposition party in the head two days ago?

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Mon 4 Mar 2019 14:57

Most criminals don’t think much about how a crime will be reported, punished. Those contemplating political violence absolutely do. By refusing to even say someone just punched Corbyn in the head, .@BBCNews sent a clear signal they consider the Labour Left fair game for violence

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Mon 4 Mar 2019 14:23

remember Angela Eagle’s office window, which was supposedly broken by a Corbynite though it turned out not to be her window anyway? That was a top media story for weeks. Corbyn’s head? Not nearly so much of a story!

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Mon 4 Mar 2019 13:48

Now let’s imagine how the same British media would be reacting today it a Momentum supporter had punched Chuka Umunna in the head (while holding an egg in his fist) yesterday instead of a right-winger doing it to Corbyn

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Sun 3 Mar 2019 23:35

so would someone have to actually murder Corbyn for the #BBC, & rest of the media to publicly reflect on their behaviour aimed at whipping up of hatred towards him & other members of the Labour Left, or would even that not be enough?

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Sun 3 Mar 2019 13:01

Centrists hate democracy. That’s what it all comes down to. Why else would they say the main problem w/ fascism is that it’s “populist” (i.e., opposed to elites)? Observe here how AS becomes a way of saying “any popular opposition to any ruling class is evil” https://t.co/292KpVGu7j

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