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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Sat 21 Jul 2018 01:24

excellent piece, not just because it cites my excellent sometime co-author @davidwengrow https://t.co/zY3fszicLI

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Fri 20 Jul 2018 10:39

I was sitting with some friends at an outside table at a pizza place near King’s Cross & a guy walked by, waved his fist in the air, and said “bullshit jobs!” Guess this is starting to get traction.

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Thu 19 Jul 2018 13:48

This is important! work is self-defeating. I’m starting to come around to combing 4 day week with UBI. Maybe we should start by having a social fund pay everyone for the one day they have off. Then up it from there? https://t.co/EXG1NLeqqr

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Thu 19 Jul 2018 00:12

I’m not sure which i find more entertaining, Trump’s still somewhat random efforts to dismantle the American empire, or Cold War liberals special shock & outrage about pretty much the only good thing he’s doing https://t.co/CmIfhbQAQJ

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Tue 17 Jul 2018 10:41

great review (though ends with an odd complaint about waiters) – excellent to know there was such a good follow-up study in Australia https://t.co/rIM3BI25MR

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Mon 16 Jul 2018 18:04

okay this is interesting… #BullshitJobs has been on the LA Times bestseller list for three weeks now! Just no other bestseller list anywhere else. Why would Los Angeles of all places love me? Should i change my opinion of the place? https://t.co/v5Pf09ci6H

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Sat 14 Jul 2018 09:22

Some kind of politicized morris dancing? But what’s the severed hand doing there? #durhamminersgala https://t.co/kQEjarWWOz

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Sat 14 Jul 2018 06:20

The moment of truth as the Freedom for Ocalan balloon ascends at the #durhamminersgala https://t.co/uFxq7I9vun

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Fri 13 Jul 2018 12:38

here’s a BBC discussion on the effectiveness of protest with @fatimashabodien @LAKauffman @Fisher_DanaR) (disclaimer, I’m a talking head. Or invisible talking head since it’s radio.) https://t.co/CLHqVkhvsG

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Thu 12 Jul 2018 12:42

note the tell-tale title of the essay “It Wasn’t a Tenure Case.” They had to appeal to the Dean to make up unprecedented new rules just to get rid of me, then tried to convince everyone it was a tenure case to make me look like a whiner. Mr. “Marxist” totally buys in out of spite

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Thu 12 Jul 2018 12:40

I love the way the purported “Marxist” at the @BrooklynRail parrots the propaganda line of the ultra-conservative Yale brass that I was whining about a tenure case when I’ve endlessly pointed out it wasn’t https://t.co/d8q0RvGANM

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Thu 12 Jul 2018 12:22

the line about Rojava would have been the equivalent of writing in 1945 that “he writes approvingly of the Red Army’s ‘liberation’ of Auschwitz while never mentioning the lend-lease program by which it was supported by US imperialists”

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Thu 12 Jul 2018 12:12

Okay I’m going to be totally lazy now. Anyone know any good sources on Louis XIV’s interest in Chinese models of statecraft & to what degree they might have influenced his own absolutist monarchy?

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Thu 12 Jul 2018 11:48

Excellent @_ClaireConnelly piece on democratic socialism. (Yes, okay, I am favourably cited.) https://t.co/5eajNgre8x

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Thu 12 Jul 2018 11:44

you can tell a dumb review is coming when the author heads off w nasty little personal snipes & a sectarian attack on Rojava. This guy completely ignores everything I say about redefining class struggle & then accuses me of ignoring class struggle https://t.co/LyrsrkK8gK

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Wed 11 Jul 2018 11:21

And the grand prize for today’s youth? To be able to face the world in the way that everyone who’s ever lived in a non-pathological society assumes to be perfectly normal https://t.co/iFiUVvUMrq

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Tue 10 Jul 2018 12:02

Doesn’t this happen like once every few months? Kind of makes you wonder what sort of things they say when they’re NOT in front of a microphone https://t.co/truWsSolE7

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