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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Mon 6 Jul 2020 12:00

@nunntheless thanks yes. Well, one of the main points of Pirate Enlightenment is that Europeans or even speakers of European languages are treated as living in an entirely different universe as, say, Malagasy-speakers, who are not treated as historical agents in the same way

Mon 6 Jul 2020 11:57

RT @BarnetMomentum: @davidgraeber What we need is a rigorous set of protocols and proper safeguarding to ensure that innocent women aren’t…

Mon 6 Jul 2020 11:56

@iainzeno maybe I’m thinking of my own experience in Occupy, which was founded mainly by anarchists on anarchist principles. Eventually liberals joined & almost immediately started treating us as outside extremists

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Mon 6 Jul 2020 11:54

@iainzeno seemed to me this is even more insidious. Half-measures and fence-sitting, yes, but this is more like pushing yourself into a movement created by others then claiming to speak for the movement to tell its creators they are too radical

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Mon 6 Jul 2020 11:51

@nunntheless the book is about the pirate settlements in Madagascar & their local impact; it makes the argument the real Libertalia was the original Betsimisaraka Confederation, founded by Malagasies synthesising local & pirate democratic traditions

Mon 6 Jul 2020 11:49

@nunntheless yes this far I got. I was asking for further info: for whom, covering what, at what stage? Do you read French? I suppose I could send the mss in English

Mon 6 Jul 2020 11:45

RT @alpashah001: Indian schools first used as barracks for the Indian security forces in naxalite areas, now to be used as prisons. Why doe…

Mon 6 Jul 2020 11:45

Excellent piece by Wail Qasim. One imagines a 1790s Starmer “I totally support Abolutionism! Just obviously not those radical elements who want to abolish slavery entirely. Clearly this kind of extremism only corrupts & harms the Abolitionist movement” https://t.co/KLvvexgUGy

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Mon 6 Jul 2020 11:37

RT @MissKedzlie: T H I S – @davidgraeber’s thesis around capitalism+bullshit jobs needs to become a priority for youth around the globe, wh…

Mon 6 Jul 2020 11:35

this is starting to get a tiny bit silly. ‘Pirate Enlightenment’ was written in English, appeared in French, and has now been translated into Italian. Which is cool… but it seems until the book with David Wengrow comes out I can’t even think about an English version!

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Mon 6 Jul 2020 11:30

RT @fahad173: Anthropologist David Graeber’s accuses the global economy of churning out meaningless jobs that are killing the human spirit.…

Mon 6 Jul 2020 10:47

this is what in Bullshit Jobs I defined as “box-ticking” – if there’s a problem & you don’t want to solve it, write a report. Or do a training. Something that just involve words & papers & forms. By no means change your policies. https://t.co/QLxQK4iSoZ

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Mon 6 Jul 2020 10:44

RT @failedanarchist: here’s your regular reminder of the present situation https://t.co/6xGRyotNs4

Mon 6 Jul 2020 10:44

RT @JonangusMackay: Ennio #Morricone, perhaps the greatest of movie composers, has died at 91. His tribute to Sacco & Vanzetti, a shoemak…

Mon 6 Jul 2020 10:06

RT @agilofingr: @nntaleb @davidgraeber Even if it doesn’t measure anything IQ conveys the message that there is a reward system in place fa…

Mon 6 Jul 2020 10:06

RT @agilofingr: @nntaleb What got me convinced: »If you renamed IQ … to FQ “Functionary Quotient” or SQ “Salaryperson Quotient”, then som…

Mon 6 Jul 2020 02:13

RT @celticmaid4: @openDemocracy @PeterStefanovi2 @peterjukes @yanisvaroufakis @GeorgeMonbiot @davidgraeber @davidhencke @nazirafzal @GoodLa…

Sun 5 Jul 2020 22:22

RT @celticmaid4: @We_OwnIt David Graeber ‘s analysis on the Tories and OUR NHS -in under one minute @DefendourNHS @keepnhspublic @nhscam…

Sun 5 Jul 2020 21:21

@leftyjew oh that would be terrifying. Otoh, not seeing it is scary in a way too. My mom told me a hundred times to tell the doctor no heroic measures if the time came, so when asked I had no choice but to repeat that, but then I felt chills & wasn’t there the night she died two days later

Sun 5 Jul 2020 20:49

RT @girlziplocked: The breakdown of free-market logic was the inherent expectation that poor people would somehow come up with the money to…

Sun 5 Jul 2020 20:33

@leftyjew Did he have his own family too, did he have a lot of people around him when he died?

Sun 5 Jul 2020 12:22

RT @RojavaNetwork: #United_Kingdom: The UK has dropped the terrorism-related charges against three British citizens who fought with the Peo…

Sun 5 Jul 2020 10:18

RT @davidwengrow: @chirikure . @davidgraeber and I have been wondering about the Aboriginal term ‘wunan’ which in Australia seems to descri…

Sun 5 Jul 2020 10:18

RT @ColinBurnett16: @davidgraeber Hi David, You very kindly shared my work before. I have a new story online. It looks at the issue of clas…