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Lev Nachman @lnachman32.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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.
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Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩 @ukrainesol.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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...
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
call for abstract: for those interested in the interface between social ontology & anthropology, we're hosting a workshop in Cambridge (UK). deadline Aug 21.
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
my paper on Cong Feng is out now (pivoting to digital)
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Documenting demolition: the spectral space in Cong Feng’s Stratum 1
This article examines Cong Feng’s enigmatic Stratum 1: The visitors (Diceng 1: Laike, 2012), a work that has been underexplored within academic discussions of the Chinese independent documentary fi...
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Dr Cora Lingling Xu 许玲玲博士 @coralinglingxu.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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/...
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The Time Inheritors: How Time Inequalities Shape Higher Education Mobility in China
Dr Cora Lingling Xu will introduce key arguments of her latest book on 'The Time Inheritors: How Time Inequalities Shape Higher Education Mobility in China'.
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
A real Mario v Wario situation this week
Jameson and cavell
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static @static-prevails.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
He’s right and he says it well, but also,
Edit of a scene from The Good Place.

Jason: “I think we’re in the bad place.”

Michael: “Brooks figured it out? David Brooks? This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts.”
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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.
Diddy calls himself frank black
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
signing off my response to reviewers anonymously "best, xx"
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
After two months of getting smoked in my fantasy league we are so back
Ronald just homered
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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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....
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Being bad during Ramadan: Temporality, historicity and the refusal of coevalness in the anthropology of Islam
Wary of the ‘denial of coevalness’ associated with earlier anthropology, anthropologists at the turn of the millennium increasingly emphasized how sharing not just space but also time is constituti...
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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 12/05/2025
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!
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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · 13/05/2025
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.
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‘My Dear Chi’: Love Letters at the Dawn of the Mao Zedong Era
On 23 March 1953, Armi wrote a letter from Helsinki to her fiancé in Paris, whom she referred to as Chi, informing him of their banns of marriage made at the church the day before. Armi and Chi had me...
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
These days you too can go viral for summarizing the Wikipedia page for “city upon a hill” in very convoluted fashion
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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
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The Grumbler @thegrumbler.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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/...
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MCC to address gender divide at AGM in push for more women as members
The MCC is set to formulate plans to drastically increase the number of women among its membership in an effort to address "ridiculous" gender inequality.
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
middlesex stream quality so good I ended up watching it at lords (frozone's lair)
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
edge lord ass post
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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)
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
happy feast of st Cyril of Turaŭ to whom is dedicated the coolest church in all of England (intercede for Belarus)
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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?
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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)
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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)]
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The China Quarterly @chinaquarterly.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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...
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Public Perceptions of Intergenerational Mobility in China | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Public Perceptions of Intergenerational Mobility in China
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
ME, A Super Smart Person: come LET us police people's grief! We must only mourn perfection
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Critical China Scholars syllabus is out! I did the labor section
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Critical China Scholars
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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)
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
bought forty million Nvidia shares at IPO in 1999 and am up 230 thousand percent should I sell?
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
my attempt at being a "marxist anthropologist" just dropped in Dialectical Anthropology link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Hierarchy fetishism in an urban Chinese school - Dialectical Anthropology
This paper argues that amidst changing economic fortunes and an intensification of socio-economic disparities, Chinese citizens since the 2010s have increasingly sought to self-consciously fetishize s...
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
the nasdaq is bleeding and Jazz Chisholm Jr is cool again. time is a circle
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
apropos of nothing my contribution to the international student discourse is out now on Social Analysis doi.org/10.3167/sa.2...
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In Pursuit of the True/Real
Abstract This article investigates the epistemic transformations experienced by Chinese international students during their journeys abroad. Past anthropological studies have examined the cosmopolitan...
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
got three sets of reviews back within 48 hours lol happy lent!
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The people still yearn for tesco’s finest gilles lipovetsky
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Thanks Obama
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
deeply ashamed I will be missing this. no better way to pre-game Lent with six (6) papers on 'participation'
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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)
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What's up with UK academia?
Decolonisation, ideological balance, and the perils of 'co-creation' (Part 1)
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Gonna cite this whenever I am asked to give a declaration about positionality academic.oup.com/isq/article/...
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Positionality Statements as a Function of Coloniality: Interrogating Reflexive Methodologies
Abstracts. Declaration of positionality and the confession of privilege as a way of revealing unequal power dynamics in knowledge production has become an
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
boycotting the Sunday morning Marylebone farmers market after this tractor nonsense (this tweet is a joke)
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
typed up a complaint about reviewers for blue sky and deleted it so I can finally rewrite
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
got so confused for a second...
the other Steph curry
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April M. Beisaw @aprilmbeisaw.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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.
Flyer for the book talk includes a cover of my book - Taking Our Water for the City - and a description of the talk.
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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
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edwin @ehcj.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
These bots getting out of control
A bot with a slur in its username following me
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