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 31 Aug 2011 03:03

@ravisarma 1983 “The Theology of Debt in Brahmanism.” In Debts and Debtors (Charles Malamoud, editor), pp. 21-40. London: Vices.

Wed 31 Aug 2011 02:26

@ravisarma – oh I’ve had like 8 requests for specifics. Charles Malamoud has several essays on rna

Wed 31 Aug 2011 02:03

@ravisarma – how many times do I have to do this? Rna, hobah, hoba. Hebrew one only takes on that meaning late

Wed 31 Aug 2011 01:21

@DikaiosLogos – yes! yes! Nasruddin rocks. I have only five stories in the book but I was very proud of getting them past my editor

Wed 31 Aug 2011 01:14

@abcreligion @Honxqp @Gontroppo2010 – turns out the usages in Hebrew are late and prob influenced by Aramaic.

Wed 31 Aug 2011 01:13

@KS1729 – the word rna (can’t do the diacritics on skype) meant both as far back as the Rg Veda. Charles Malamoud has a detailed exposition

Wed 31 Aug 2011 00:04

@Gontroppo2010 – yeah hobah only came to mean both under influence of Sramaic – sorry! Skt “rna” and Aramaic “hoba” still work

Tue 30 Aug 2011 17:37

fascinating – rebel uprising in Tripoli was defiance of NATO attempts to keep institutions of old regime in place just w/out Gadaffi

Tue 30 Aug 2011 17:05

Great Monbiot on parasitism of academic publishers, who conspire to thwart the dissemination of knowledge for profit: http://t.co/hTXf4FT

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Tue 30 Aug 2011 15:52

@JeffreyNewman – fascinating. You know most 17C states tried alchemists first, then when it didn’t work adopted paper money

Tue 30 Aug 2011 07:32

RT @NewLeftProject: Debt, Slavery and our Idea of Freedom – an interview with @davidgraeber http://t.co/N4crqiv

Tue 30 Aug 2011 06:28

@duncankinney – the latter. Yes, indeed, all of your 1,578 followers should buy my book immediately!

Tue 30 Aug 2011 05:33

RT @wikileaks: Overview of released WikiLeaks US cables by country (175) and creation date http://t.co/c99FQ62

Tue 30 Aug 2011 05:03

@tacanderson – oh, so it came out finally? I originally wrote that piece almost 8 years ago.

Mon 29 Aug 2011 19:16

@timothyjpmason – mainly I meant, not full of discussions of other scholar’s work. But I’m glad you think it isn’t boring!

Mon 29 Aug 2011 19:14

Man, the Boston Globe just loves me! http://t.co/ga0IUrH Third nice piece since the book’s been out. NY Times meanwhile hasn’t had a thing

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Mon 29 Aug 2011 15:47

@reneerico – please do. And if you know anyone on Planet Money, ask them what happened? Well, I think it was that Davidson guy

Mon 29 Aug 2011 15:44

@timothyjpmason – thx – well, it’s a non-academic book, I don’t cite anyone – unless they add something absolutely necessary to the argument

Mon 29 Aug 2011 00:18

@Inverness – I did a reading of Debt at Bluestockings Bookstore Fri and after it everyone under 30 there wanted to talk student loan protest

Sun 28 Aug 2011 19:30

@reneerico @planetmoney – as a matter of fact I did an hour-long interview with PM on all this in July but they never ran it