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 12 Sep 2018 06:33

strangely contradictory line in NY Times on rise of right & left populism “in the US, the crisis [of 200] exposed an economy that had been a charade — one that most Americans didn’t understand or appreciate” – no, they were quite aware it was a charade https://t.co/HpxfxKkdmT

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Tue 11 Sep 2018 13:17

What do people do when pretending to work on their #bullshitjobs all day? Play computer games. And what do they do in those games? Increasingly, pretend to be doing real work https://t.co/ZeIbQbfbdh

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Mon 10 Sep 2018 22:11

one hard day’s work in Paris (11 interviews starting at 7 AM ending 10:30 PM – but I did get a nice Rosh Hashanah dinner in too) https://t.co/ycLSNmdPUY https://t.co/9xobMtnsbR https://t.co/B5jfAUCOJf https://t.co/wbJHuT7Ff5

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Sun 9 Sep 2018 17:13

Also that they have no minds of their own but are blindly aggressive vehicles for their masters’ will https://t.co/EzohI0lXOt

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Sun 9 Sep 2018 16:47

Realize I wasn’t nearly clear enough. I was speaking of cowards. (Easy mistake to make I was thinking in an academic context where most people are cowards.)

Sun 9 Sep 2018 12:28

I’d like to propose something I will call “the asshole paradox.” Often, the very fact someone publicly denounces someone as an asshole, or vindictive narcissist, or power abuser, shows they don’t believe it to be true. Or else they’d know better than to cross them.

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Sat 8 Sep 2018 20:53

So I’m getting old now. And capitalism is still here. I mean, yes, okay, it’s not in the best of shape. Definitely showing signs of stress. But so am I. So are you guys going to get your acts together to get rid of it now before i die in 30 years or so? C’mon. Please?

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Sat 8 Sep 2018 15:29

There’s some guy named @profdaveandress who seems to feel his time on twitter is best spent launching completely unprovoked personal attacks on fellow scholars he’s never met. He’s done two against me now. Ever wonder what motivates a guy like that? It’s really puzzling.

Sat 8 Sep 2018 10:52

so who cares if we’re hated by our constituents? who cares if we spent 3 years trying to oust you? who cares if we led a campaign to falsely accuse you of racism & anti-semitism? We demand the right to have you be nice to us anyway! https://t.co/Sj2jSVLMJQ

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Fri 7 Sep 2018 22:50

John Cleese’s press office denies he is the secret mind behind the government’s current Brexit preparations https://t.co/HXGcKytsni

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Fri 7 Sep 2018 21:54

you see here’s a perfect example of what the “adults in the room” are really about. After the hurricane, Trump said, we’ll have to “say goodbye” to Puerto Rico’s crippling & unfair debt. Apparently then someone must have, like, talked to him a little. https://t.co/IIS36xr1LP

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Fri 7 Sep 2018 16:39

I once described the wave of movements of 2011, from Egypt to NYC, as “the opening salvo in a wave of negotiations over the dissolution of the American Empire.” Clearly the Trump administration is wave 2.

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Thu 6 Sep 2018 23:04

growing list of ‘crazy’ things Trump wasn’t allowed to do by the “adults in the room”: * withdraw US troops from Afghanistan and S Korea * dismantle NATO * explore Medicare for all * restore Glass-Steigel * assassinate Assad * cancel Puerto Rico’s debt

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Thu 6 Sep 2018 20:29

Has anybody remarked that almost all of the “crazy” things Trump’s handlers boast they stopped him from doing are things that if he’d done them, would have been the only good things he’d have done as President?

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Thu 6 Sep 2018 19:22

Walking thru my neighborhood I keep noticing all the flats with empty bookcases. I of course can’t afford a place 1/4 big enough to fit my books.That’s what happens when you make your living by reading & writing books (and are not already rich.)

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Thu 6 Sep 2018 18:22

pointless jobs are destroying the planet! Me in the inestimable TreeHugger magazine https://t.co/R501w1hvFC

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Thu 6 Sep 2018 17:09

addition bonus question, who is the most famous living British person who was trained in accountancy?

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Thu 6 Sep 2018 16:23

the UK has 360k accountants, which is 1 out of every 10 accountants in the world, as many as all EU countries put together. Of the 33.4 million workers in the UK, 1 in 92 is an accountant. What are we thinking about this? https://t.co/IlXgQAEY64

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Wed 5 Sep 2018 23:07

interesting how this makes no mention of #hautalk but does cite the “hauleaks” documents that say there was a campaign of defamation against the editor. https://t.co/KAxlPriXYy

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Wed 5 Sep 2018 09:40

I have been arguing strenuously that Trump is really serious about dismantling the empire. It struck me as a weird reflection of the perversity of US politics that the fascist was the guy running as the peace candidate.

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Wed 5 Sep 2018 09:37

(I originally wrote “Bernstein”! You see a movie early in life I guess it carves grooves in your brain.)

Wed 5 Sep 2018 09:37

Fascinating: Woodwrd book says Trump wanted to pull US troops out of Korea, Afghanistan, but his staff wouldn’t let him. “How many more deaths? How many more lost limbs? How much longer are we going to be there?” So who is actually running things? https://t.co/McHZpHrzta

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Tue 4 Sep 2018 11:47

It’s getting so bad _I_ almost feel I should join the Labour Party to express solidarity and I’m an anarchist who hates the very idea of leaders https://t.co/QpY11mxakg

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Tue 4 Sep 2018 01:37

so they’re fighting as dirty as they possibly can, and have managed to recruit some right-wing elements in the Jewish community to play along – in a way that profoundly endangers that community, but neither the Blairites or people like Sacks seem to particularly care

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