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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Some nice back and forth on an important set of questions about researchers’ responsibility to communities

Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

“Vampires thus illustrate the relationship of black culture to the dominant culture in America, the blues, funk, techno, and hip hop, have all entered into mainstream society, but they do so in a way that is often disconnected from the individuals and the living experiences which shaped them”

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Julia Eckert writes here on how fascist "rituals enabl[e] people to join into the suprematist project, and to prefiguratively produce it"

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George B. Radics @georgeradics.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

It's been a long time coming. After several years of revisions, my book Emotional Filipinos is coming out on April 15th. Please share and retweet! It would really mean a lot to me. Preorder sales available here: ugapress.org/978082037545...

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Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Matan Kaminer provides a personal review of Balthasar's "Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left," a book that feels particularly vital given the "genocide in Palestine... and supercharged McCarthyism in the US." www.at-commons.com/pub/c058ru1q...

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An Account of Ourselves

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SEA Junction @seajunction.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

📢 Don't miss the next Book Launch @ SEA Junction! Global Battlefields: Memoirs of a Global Activist by Walden Bello. 🗓 24 Sept 2025 | 🕠 5:30–7:00 PM | 📍 BACC, Bangkok More info at: seajunction.org/event/book-l... #GlobalSouth #BookLaunch #Memoirs

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Excited to dig into this one! Congrats to FB

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

this is particularly interesting essay for me, as I found in my fieldwork in Myanmar that people tend to talk about "rights", if they do at all, in fundamentally different ways than ppl do in Anglo-American contexts, and that this difference pivots on alienability [1/3]

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Anthro Theory + Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

today in Ghostly Lessons we have two contributions considering the treatment of human remains: * Thiago Barbosa and Amanda Domingues on human remains identification methods www.at-commons.com/pub/x2v2mu1j... * Trevor Engel on how museums hold bodies www.at-commons.com/pub/bi2wxnk4...

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Transinstitutionalization and the Ghosts of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

The many authors of this forum have worked very hard to generate important insights into the very hot topic of haunting (and, tbc, they developed it well before AAA announced haunting would be this year’s meeting theme)

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I comment here on the USA's ambiguous relationship with Myanmar (and the so-called developing world) more generally, including: "As the US continues to fund and support Israel’s genocide in Gaza today, it seems nothing less than absurd to recommend more US engagement in places around the world."

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SEA Junction @seajunction.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

‼️❗️ Deadline is approaching❗️ If your group or organization is working for earthquake affected areas of Myanmar , please try to apply these small grant proposal. Deadline -30 May 2025 Submit to info@seajunction.org Please read eligibilities &priorities➡️ seajunction.org/small-grant-...

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

AI here thinking that I run an inter generational hardware store in Duluth with my non existent male progeny

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

watch Dunn's genius here. He digs to help so must recover - which means Murray's about to dust him. But watch what he does next: He’s about to do a spin move to recover as JM drives, but then JM anticipates and steps back + so Dunn never flips his hips! He's playing d with his back to the player!

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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Easter season.

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Dallas crowd during Luka's return: managed to pull off a celebration of their guy AND a biting condemnation of their betrayer (the regime who traded him). The love displayed in the former helped leaven the anger, producing something kinda lovely (or at least it seemed so on TV)

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Depending on how this was edited, at the end you can hear the interview get interrupted by a student occupation of the university building I was in there in Paris. Apropos, given the book’s topic.

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

For helping Mandalay earthquake, check this vetted and pretty comprehensive list: karenvinalay.notion.site/Myanmar-dona...

karenvinalay.notion.site

Myanmar donation links (updated 1 April 2025) | Notion

This list is collated and vetted by Karen Vinalay

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I’ve taught college for 30 years so I am confident saying that the students being abducted by ICE from our campuses are our best. They are the ones we stay up late for, writing elaborate comments on their brilliant work, hoping they will feel our respect and gratitude

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

re-upping this, for your reconsideration.

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

i really like how Mattingly stresses the dialectical negotiation between abstraction and ethnography as imperative for making anthropological theory.

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Jason Smith @profitratedown.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Long, very interesting (and informative) interview with two members of the Endnotes collective about the history of the journal: chuangcn.org/2025/02/neit...

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

some titles to consider: Future of Revolution: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646905... Cybernetic Capitalism: www.fordhampress.com/978153150893... Massumi's new one: buff.ly/42wmnUx Ranciere: www.wiley.com/en-sg/Uncert... on Extinction: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

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Cybernetic Capitalism

A Conceptual Interrogation of Capital in a Cybernetic Environment Cybernetic Capitalism presents a groundbreaking synthesis of Niklas Luhmann's systems theor...

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

“When you get interviewed about the massacres, make sure you look trustworthy.” “No problem, I’ll just wear these not at all sketchy or warlordy looking sunglasses and everything will be a ok👌”

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

banger at @lpeblog.bsky.social: "universities like Yale don’t really have a good means to ensure that they’re really speaking for the collective, or in response to our values. Instead, our leaders more and more seem to speak in the interests of the trustees" lpeproject.org/blog/the-ins...

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The Institutional Neutrality Trap

An increasing number of universities want to restrict their leaders from speaking about issues of public concern. This push for "neutrality" is a key piece of a broader conservative campaign to…

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

"Thais — ... as marginalized migrant laborers — are a *constitutive* exception, one that has enabled, both ideologically and materially, Israel’s project of settler colonialism." Pleased to be the first (of many, i'm sure!) to review Matan Kaminer's essential new book: rdcu.be/d5ZPI

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

for a very certain kind of nerd, this is a very big deal. Thanks @nrg8000.bsky.social

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

given today's terrible news about Katherine Franke's shameful treatment by Columbia (academeblog.org/2025/01/10/s...), it seems like a good time to re-encourage academics to stop engaging with that university.

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Good interview with @epf.bsky.social by @mauracunningham.bsky.social of AAS on his first engagements with Myanmar & excellent new book on the country contentsharing.net/actions/emai...

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Your December 2024 #AsiaNow Digest from the AAS

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Company that benefits from system ($32b annual profit) wants to fix system? g all the way tfoh

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Last week, I resigned from the MLA Executive Council in solidarity with members working to mobilize the org to take a stand against the scholasticide and genocide in Palestine. Please read and share their powerful call to MLA leadership today in LitHub. lithub.com/the-modern-l...

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A Call to the Modern Language Association to Let Members Decide About BDS

In late October, the leadership of the Modern Language Association (MLA)—one of the largest and wealthiest US scholarly organizations in the humanities—refused to allow the organization’s Del…

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Recently Ghassan Hage @anthroprofhage.bsky.social encouraged us to retain our ability to be shocked at the obscenity of the world (rather than to retreat to the relative safety of cynicism). I feel that kind of shock regarding this essay's publication (1/)

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

This was a really fun interview to do (and includes a cartoon from the book!). Thanks to @mauracunningham.bsky.social for the deep engagement. It’s really gratifying.

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

you (looks at my CV with disgust, points) me: "please don't touch those. They are my emotional support edited volume chapters."

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Tim Gitzen @timgitzen.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

New book: sunypress.edu/Books/U/Unsc...

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Unscripting the Present

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

we are also the only anthro space (that we know of?) that does reviews of books of theory, in part for how they apply to anthropology.

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

8-yr-old daughter walks in, puts hand in armpit, makes farting noise me: "Excellent. Where did you learn that?" she, pauses, looks thoughtful: "Boys."

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 05/05/2024

“U not a colleague you a colonizer” Name something that could be heard in a diss track or at a faculty meeting.

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 28/04/2024

sometimes it's hard to teach ACAB to my kids - to explain that police exist to protect capital rather than people. One trip thru the timeline changed that tho 7 year-old: "The kids are getting arrested? But they don't look mean, Dada. Why? Just b/c the ppl with the $ said so?"

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