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

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Sun 21 Jun 2020 11:09

presumably not. The question I’m trying to figure out is, has the artisanal production of music (i.e., actual bands) retreated into a more artsy or genre space where hooks & catchy stuff is frowned on, while the industrial music users have all the material they need already 6/

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Sun 21 Jun 2020 11:07

but crucially, I don’t see contemporary equivalents of the Get Smart or Munsters theme song getting played by ska bands or any bands, as a joke, because everyone knows them. Breakbeat is all playing with ’60s, ’70s, ’80s stuff. Will we be playing with it forever? 5/

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Sun 21 Jun 2020 11:03

it just seems strange that you still go to, say, a restaurant in and they’re playing a tape of ’70s American pop tunes, half of which I hated at the time, but I don’t notice anyone with equivalent cheesy pop tunes with hummable tunes from, say, the ’00s. 4/

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Sun 21 Jun 2020 10:59

one could argue the key move came in the ’80s w the invention of “Classic Rock”, i.e., recycling ’60s & ’70s stuff for a new generation, then of course Hip Hop w sampling was the first “postmodern pastiche” but there was still lots of new tunes for those who sought it out 3/

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Sun 21 Jun 2020 10:56

even advertising jingles, which were evil & designed to get caught in your head, seem to have been abandoned: I think in the ’90s they started just recycling Classic Rock tunes that were already caught in your head & tried to piggyback 2/

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Sun 21 Jun 2020 10:54

trying to figure out if I’m just old or there’s a real cultural transformation. The ’60s on seem to have produced an endless stream of tunes: movies, TV shows, pop music of endless varieties, that people still remember & hum to themselves. Do we now? 1/.

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Sat 20 Jun 2020 20:04

So why are there no movies about Plato or Socrates? Aristotle? Diogenes? I mean in the first case we already have dialogues even. (Movies about the death of Socrates don’t count.)

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Wed 17 Jun 2020 14:36

I asked one of the proprietors who was standing in front of his shop who was going to buy souvenirs if there are no tourists. He said “no one, we’re not getting any business. We’re in real trouble.” I wished him good luck.

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Wed 17 Jun 2020 14:32

So about half the shops on Portobello are now open, half closed. But ALL souvenir shops are open. I counted five. Hunh??? Who’s going to buy souvenirs?? https://t.co/us5ImEQjY1

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Wed 17 Jun 2020 13:52

Einstein is supposed to have said that if World War III was fought with nuclear weapons, then World War IV would be fought with sticks and stones. Well I guess they just skipped to IV https://t.co/K2dNAz5nQh

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Wed 17 Jun 2020 01:47

so is this what happens when two nuclear powers fight now? They know they can’t use every weapon they have, so they just come to an agreement beforehand on what level of lethalness both will use, like two duelists or something? https://t.co/iitYPHjhnG

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Tue 16 Jun 2020 15:33

One pandemic lockdown & judging by what’s in public advertising spaces, we’re suddenly living in the Soviet Union. I guess “the economy” restarts when they replace all these with pleas to buy stuff we don’t need https://t.co/FM8wFGW4bK

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Tue 16 Jun 2020 13:41

oh and in case you don’t know what they did to the Panthers: this is what this guy seems to be endorsing https://t.co/20dEu3L0sE

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Tue 16 Jun 2020 13:29

yes as my dad used to say, “there’s no such things as an ex-CIA agent.” Here is the voice of the anti-anti-fascists. We know what they did to the Panthers. Now they want to do that to BLM. https://t.co/1u7htyvVdp

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Mon 15 Jun 2020 23:27

why are court jesters so commonplace? (they seem to occur everywhere from Scotland to China to Mesoamerica) #a4all https://t.co/cCssCFOmai

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Mon 15 Jun 2020 13:19

Yes, Evgeny Lebedev, and that’s why you totally opposed taking down statues of Stalin himself, and Lenin, and Hitler, after the war. https://t.co/a46Qv3xsUT

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Sun 14 Jun 2020 20:36

friend in Paris told me today that Nazis marching vs #BLM had rolled out antisemitic banners, which has been helping a lot with unity on the other side, & what’s more CNN’s auto translator has been rendering “molotov cocktails” as “mazel tov cocktails” so it’s becoming a phrase

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Sun 14 Jun 2020 13:46

interesting conversation between Assange (from prison) and Varoufakis about the economy https://t.co/Y8BoMootO8

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Sun 14 Jun 2020 10:42

from my own small contribution to police abolition some years ago – #blacklivesmatter #AbolishThePolice https://t.co/09FcnPTuSF

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Sun 14 Jun 2020 10:15

American police are basically a shake-down operation. They don’t “fight crime”, mainly they use the threat of violence to extract $$ from Black people, poor people, & migrants etc, largely to give to banks to repay municipal debt. #blacklivesmatter https://t.co/R888nvp46u

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Fri 12 Jun 2020 11:48

the movement has successfully reduced Winston Churchill to a fortified abstraction #blacklivesmatter https://t.co/FlYhbGiE8f

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