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Wed 28 Dec 2011 17:48

@melflashman @jenny8lee – really I was on Marketplace? they must have repeated it. David Brancaccio is a good egg.

Wed 28 Dec 2011 17:46

@MigeruBlogger @DinaMakram – you’d just have to get one of their old school chums to write something ridiculous

Wed 28 Dec 2011 17:46

@MigeruBlogger @DinaMakram – the hilarious thing is E.P.Thompson founded NLR as a vehicle for the UK working class autodidact tradition

Sun 25 Dec 2011 20:53

@DinaMakram – perhaps you can translate the work of Mario Campi Bisenzio – he’s our new (extremely opinionated) Italian philosopher.

Sun 25 Dec 2011 20:47

@DinaMakram – anyway NLR is run by super-rich snobs who mostly only let their Eton friends publish there.

Sun 25 Dec 2011 20:43

@DinaMakram – my response was to decide I have to make up a phony Italian philosopher and just write commentaries on his work

Sun 25 Dec 2011 20:38

@DinaMakram – anglophones are only allowed to interpret theories originally written in German, French or Italian. They very nearly said that

Sun 25 Dec 2011 20:37

@DinaMakram – the subtext seemed to be that as an English speaker I had no right to make up theories; only French, German and Italians can

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Sun 25 Dec 2011 19:09

@DinaMakram – yes that’s a long story. They said I was obviously a mere activist autodidact who knew nothing about social theory

Sun 25 Dec 2011 03:31

@DinaMakram @Lon – thanks Dina – hope to see you in a couple weeks, I’ll be in London Jan 8-14 or so

Sun 25 Dec 2011 03:30

@DinaMakram – oh yes that piece was commissioned by New Left Review, then rejected w/out giving me a chance to respond to their comments

Fri 23 Dec 2011 05:17

@aristarchan – the US continues to criticize other countries for sending riot cops to suppress protests too. Amazing chutzpah really

Thu 22 Dec 2011 07:13

@ConnerHabib – yeah I think there’s a whole bunch but I don’t even know my own schedule yet

Thu 22 Dec 2011 07:10

@dontbeaputz @SamSeder @MMFlint – the DA, and other meetings where there’s something pressing to resolve, somehow it doesn’t happen

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Thu 22 Dec 2011 07:09

@dontbeaputz @SamSeder @MMFlint – I think the basic problem is there’s no pressing issues to be resolved at the Spokes any more

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Thu 22 Dec 2011 07:08

@analyticnomad – yeah that’s precisely what bugs me. Never “as Republican sociologist X says..” “As Social Democratic geographer Y says…”

Thu 22 Dec 2011 05:57

@dontbeaputz @SamSeder @MMFlint I actually heard it was better than usual. Still, there has to be a way to deal with unstable people

Wed 21 Dec 2011 21:09

@RebelCapitalist – the danger is definitely there, but I’m not sure I’d go that far yet

Wed 21 Dec 2011 21:08

@KevinAiello – I’ve been using it myself because it seems intellectually dishonest not to. But a case can be made either way

Wed 21 Dec 2011 21:07

@AKPressDistro @redemmas – um, yes, as soon as I finish writing this damn book I’m supposed to have in seven weeks and haven’t started yet

Tue 20 Dec 2011 20:43

@joepdx – because that wasn’t what the piece was about? I didn’t talk about anarchism either.

Tue 20 Dec 2011 17:43

@col_buendia @MediocreDave – OTOH, I don’t think Nathan had any obligation to cite me – what he was saying was just true

Tue 20 Dec 2011 17:42

@col_buendia @MediocreDave – someone from The Nation asked me to write the piece weeks ago but I told them I couldn’t stand their elitism

Tue 20 Dec 2011 04:42

@professoroddjob – thanks! got me in a bit of trouble at the time but I’m still very glad I wrote it.

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Mon 19 Dec 2011 22:50

@mingchan88 – I wasnt really intending to be but it turns out it doesn’t take much to be bad