In case you missed it, Kerry Brown wrote a book that plagiarized Shelley Rigger’s classic book title. I, along with others who were asked to review Kerry’s manuscript, said verbatim to change the title. In the most tacky and unprofessional fashion, he stole her title anyway.

We take no joy criticising a young left-wing UK political figure who has often spoken up for workers' rights and progressive causes. But these barely coherent comments from Zarah Sultana on Ukraine sum up much of what is wrong with her wing of the left www.instagram.com/reel/DQT62ys...

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

call for abstract: for those interested in the interface between social ontology & anthropology, we're hosting a workshop in Cambridge (UK). deadline Aug 21.

my paper on Cong Feng is out now (pivoting to digital)

A bit of planning ahead--for colleagues and friends who will be in London in Jan, please mark this for your diary. I will give a book talk on The Time Inheritors @sunypress.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social SOAS China Institute on 26 January 2026 at 5 pm. See you! www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

A real Mario v Wario situation this week

He’s right and he says it well, but also,

Every New York hip hop figure w the sole exception of 50 cent is so incredibly corny. Christopher walken’s frank white is also his worst role. Possibly ever. Yes, I want all the smoke.

signing off my response to reviewers anonymously "best, xx"

After two months of getting smoked in my fantasy league we are so back

I've tried to theorize this impulse as a "refusal of coevalness." I think anthropologists are often especially bad at dealing with this for reasons that have a lot to do with the way we justify the legitimacy of our methods. But we should take it seriously: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Really incredible story unraveling in this thread, where Amazon and other sites have seemingly been able to sell an academic textbook that was withdrawn in 2021 and never actually printed or published, without the knowledge of the press, editors or contributors. Something has gone deeply wrong!

What can a box of old love letters reveal about history, hope, and migration? In this essay, Suvi Rautio reflects on 1950s correspondence between her Chinese grandfather and Finnish grandmother—intimate artefacts that trace a cross-border romance and the idealism of a shared socialist future.

These days you too can go viral for summarizing the Wikipedia page for “city upon a hill” in very convoluted fashion

I'd wager one hundred doubloons this guy is an oxbridge midwit. on the contary! we cannot solve the big LLM crisis by making everyone wear a gown and locking them in a room

Can we please stop covering this anachronism of an organisation? There is so little coverage of the domestic game I'd much rather read about Leicestershire's start to the season than their self-serving machinations www.bbc.co.uk/sport/...

middlesex stream quality so good I ended up watching it at lords (frozone's lair)

edge lord ass post

whats the over/under on the total number of people in a canonically irregular traditionalist Catholic priestly fraternity that shall not be named praying a rosary for this to happen rn (the answer is 2.5)

happy feast of st Cyril of Turaŭ to whom is dedicated the coolest church in all of England (intercede for Belarus)

Continuously saddened by the never ending neoliberal assault on Britain’s greatest institutions after years and years of chasing short term profits by overselling quick and shallow experiences. Where do we come back from this?

Clarke’s on 53rd at 2am: the Venn diagram comprises coastal HYPS rejects wiping vomit off of their common projects sneakers with single ply napkins or midwestern frat/srat pledges who can’t pronounce “roof” (the intersection is cocaine)

who wants to commission me to write 3700 words on how you cannot defeat fascism by bullying fascists for what they wear [nota bene the world would not be a better place if everyone dressed like "Derek guy" (RyanAir flight to Como core)]

Feng Yang, Airan Liu and Wangyang Li's research finds Chinese citizens often overestimate the likelihood of equal opportunities for children from families with differing educational backgrounds, but there are signs of emerging pessimism.#代际流动 doi.org/10.1017/S030...

ME, A Super Smart Person: come LET us police people's grief! We must only mourn perfection

Critical China Scholars syllabus is out! I did the labor section

bro speak for yourself im out here 'eating bitterness' to 'save face' so that I can cultivate more 'guanxi' (a form of social relation wholly unlike the white man's)

bought forty million Nvidia shares at IPO in 1999 and am up 230 thousand percent should I sell?

my attempt at being a "marxist anthropologist" just dropped in Dialectical Anthropology link.springer.com/article/10.1...

the nasdaq is bleeding and Jazz Chisholm Jr is cool again. time is a circle

apropos of nothing my contribution to the international student discourse is out now on Social Analysis doi.org/10.3167/sa.2...

got three sets of reviews back within 48 hours lol happy lent!

The people still yearn for tesco’s finest gilles lipovetsky

Thanks Obama

deeply ashamed I will be missing this. no better way to pre-game Lent with six (6) papers on 'participation'

not to b an X culture war correspondent here but it's wild the gen z british centre-right decry DEI & yearn for a 'great books' education. Lettuce & Archie want out of SW15 and demand a "life of the mind" (chugging Michelob Ultras in the book stacks of a very big Midwestern brutalist building)

Reading an anthropology paper with 20+ citations on a single a4 sheet comprising three paragraphs (the vast majority of which do not include any page numbers). Is there any other discipline that is so reliant on excessive gesturing as an argumentative strategy lmao

Gonna cite this whenever I am asked to give a declaration about positionality academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

boycotting the Sunday morning Marylebone farmers market after this tractor nonsense (this tweet is a joke)

typed up a complaint about reviewers for blue sky and deleted it so I can finally rewrite

got so confused for a second...

This weekend I’m giving a book talk at the local library in Pine Hill, NY. They are within the NYC watershed so I will also be donating a copy of my book to them. I’ll be speaking to the Hurley Senior Citizens, who live on the shores of the Ashokan Reservoir, in September.

in their defence, the authors explicitly see themselves as working within ordinary language philosophy traditions and as charitable readers I'm just not sure it's necessary to disambiguate between Wittgensteinian practices & Peircean habits in a paper like this

These bots getting out of control