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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Tue 25 Aug 2020 08:32

@howisthewater @cjenscook it’s got to be. I once tried to calculate how much $$ it would cost for a scholar to research a book if they followed all the rules, versus how much $$ they get for it … who pockets the difference? Basically a class of parasites who make it harder for scholars to do research

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Tue 25 Aug 2020 08:29

@hkos @razisidd @simchaonn yeah we were supposed to be working on a project together, also with John Summers. who shortly thereafter got kicked out of his job at a major magazine for purportedly unconnected reasons.

Tue 25 Aug 2020 08:28

@NarcoMonarchist @simchaonn it was a couple reviews of a book I couldn’t find on libgen. I just thought I’d get a sense of the argument, but even that would cost 40 bucks. So I wrote the author & got a pdf of the book.

Tue 25 Aug 2020 01:49

RT @howisthewater: @cjenscook @davidgraeber Somewhere behind these lucrative contracts that academic publishers have with universities is m…

Mon 24 Aug 2020 23:36

RT @howisthewater: @davidgraeber The best things universities could do without outside intervention is conspire together to all stop paying…

Mon 24 Aug 2020 14:32

RT @megmantis: “A revolution on a world scale will take a very long time. But it is also possible to recognize that it is already starting…

Mon 24 Aug 2020 11:21

@razisidd @simchaonn I had a friend who downloaded all of jstor once. We all know what happened to him.

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Mon 24 Aug 2020 11:20

@tim_waterman Libgen has maybe half the books you’d ever want. If you’re doing research. As for the rest: you’re basically fucked

Mon 24 Aug 2020 11:18

@redrumlisa Well everything I do is publicly available but it’s a scam: you have to work for the vultures to get a CV that will suffice to get you a stable teaching income

Mon 24 Aug 2020 11:16

@chrgodske I’ve never found it much use for articles. Hardly surprising since i would never ever use it to begin with since it would be illegal!

Mon 24 Aug 2020 10:57

RT @davidgraeber: @simchaonn The ghost of Gandhi came to me in a dream & said “I abhor violence but in the case of Elsevier I’d make an exc…

Mon 24 Aug 2020 10:53

@Sternchancer well there’s a whole bunch of stuff. Thanks for the offer though. I’ll just wait for LSE to go back online. Apparently publishers are suddenly rejecting its login for some reason.

Mon 24 Aug 2020 10:52

@simchaonn The ghost of Gandhi came to me in a dream & said “I abhor violence but in the case of Elsevier I’d make an exception. No bombs please. They kill innocents. But if every time an academic met someone from Elsevier, she kicked them in the shins… Think about it.” (Gandhi. Not me.)

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Mon 24 Aug 2020 10:48

@arborlowenviron well I did email the author for the most important book but I’m well aware that the publishers don’t give the author the final pdf of their own book just for that reason. Articles, yeah.

Mon 24 Aug 2020 10:42

I’m trying to do research for an academic article and LSE library online access is shut down; sci-web seems to be banned here in Germany; even a two-page book review costs $25-30 if you’re insane enough to try to buy it. Hunh? Does anyone actually BUY academic articles?

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Mon 24 Aug 2020 10:33

RT @ffarellacci: @davidgraeber according to #lemonde during #lockdown employees of the tertiary sector who had to work from home have real…

Mon 24 Aug 2020 07:54

RT @mistakeswrmade_: i always come back to this excerpt from David Graeber’s The Utopia of Rules when someone asks what will we do to stop…

Mon 24 Aug 2020 07:50

RT @dogsectionpress: DOPE 11 (Autumn 2020) is now available! Features: Andrew Fraser, @CashCarraway, @davidgraeber, Elliot Murawksi, @Kate…

Sun 23 Aug 2020 09:39

RT @DurstApologist: Now this was actually a concrete example of cracking down on critical discourse or a politician. David Graeber has also…

Sun 23 Aug 2020 09:39

RT @_kayayem: What I’d really like to know is why Dawn Foster’s critical (and accurate) article about him triggered the ending of her contr…

Sun 23 Aug 2020 08:32

@ChristinGorman you obviously asked a very rich American, since the question is how much money they can contribute, not whether they can do it.