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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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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

i thought it was Josh?: 'Josh nabbed four Oscar nominations for his solo effort “Marty Supreme,” while Benny came up empty-handed for his “The Smashing Machine.”'

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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

In Burma, one may lose rights they had at one point... and then never get them back. Rights aren't inalienable. I suggest this has something to do with conceptions of (political) personhood and intersubjective / collective understandings of the affordances of the Burmese social milieu [3/3]

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

whereas Americans describe "our" rights as ours even when they're not delivered (you have to "fight for *your* right to party," as the Beastie Boys are fond of reminding us), this same grammar of possession tends not to attend Burmese descriptions of rights. [2/3]

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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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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Yeah I got that. And you’re right it’s a totally different stat! Probabilistic reasoning rather than Bayesian, we could say? If I wanted probabilities I would watch, shudder, baseball. The whole point of good sports is that the mean changes! “It’s why you play the games.”

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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 · 27/05/2025

Those stats are dumb. Sometimes the mean is not to be regressed to! [But the fact that JB is the leader in the playoffs in offensive plus minus AND dead last in defensive plus minus is a wild stat that I wholly support (per Michael Pina’s Ringer article).]

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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

one could have watched that amazing game yesterday and just watched Dunn. I don’t think I’ve ever seen as intuitive or creative defender as this guy.

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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...

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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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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The problem is that the NYT doesn’t produce news but hegemony. It basically asks itself, every day, “how do we create news for the UMC liberal who is terrified only by the mildest deviation from America’s baseline brutalities, as defined by the Clinton era?”

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

unlike the accusations of "systematic" SA, the NYT is systematic in its bias against Palestine. As this analysis shows: theintercept.com/2024/01/09/n.... I've stopped reading NYT and i have to say, i'm less stupid for it.

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Coverage of Gaza War in the New York Times and Other Major Newspapers Heavily Favored Israel, Analysis Shows

The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post skewed coverage toward Israeli narratives, according to a quantitative analysis.

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Fwiw, I stopped reading nyt bc of its shamefully biased Gaza coverage, punctuated by the indefensible and refuted story about mass SA carried out by Hamas.

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman @epf.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

When you get to Peirce, as one must, Kockelman’s 2007 article Agency has a good interpretation of CP using two or three cat examples

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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 · 04/02/2025

USHMM has not said anything against the genocide in Gaza. Board member just today called Gazans evil. hyperallergic.com/987778/us-ho... This warrants mentioning when promoting the fellowship.

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US Holocaust Memorial Museum Board Member Calls Gazans “Fundamentally Evil”

In an editorial, Martin Oliner encouraged other countries to support Trump in “making Gaza great again.”

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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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