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Paul Christensen

@takadanobaba.bsky.social
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Cultural anthropologists, mostly Japan, think Takadanobaba is pretty neat.

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Ajantha Subramanian @ajanthasubramanian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Check out my co-authored essay with Jeff Maskovsky in response to the Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences: www.anthropology-news.org/articles/a-c...
anthropology-news.org
A Conservative Hit Job in the Age of MAGA - Anthropology News
The Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences is not a neutral audit; it is a tactical hit job on
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Can now pre-order my book direct from @cornellupress.bsky.social
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Fraught Futures by Paul Christensen | Paperback | Cornell University Press
Cornell University Press fosters a culture of broad and sustained inquiry through the publication of scholarship that is engaged, influential, and of lasting significance.
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just missing a long abandoned well and a few slightly erotic descriptions of ears
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's today!
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I wrote and article and now you can read it (and I'm happy to share if you don't have easy access).
tandfonline.com
Fraught Narratives, Contrived Futures: Tokyo’s Techno-Utopian Erasure of the Unhoused
Mirai – future – is ubiquitously written into Tokyo’s cityscape. Yet the promises embedded in future-oriented government initiatives like Health Japan 21, Innovation 25, Society 5.0, and the Sustai...
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I found some of the last orelhões in the wild...
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The abundance of copaganda/military worship has gotta be one of the most jarring parts of coming back to the US from literally anywhere else.
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If you are in Rio and want to hear me talk about my book (in English) come to @lahmuseu.bsky.social tomorrow morning!
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
But how based can one bookstore even be? @livleonardodavinci.bsky.social:
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I'm going to be at USC in September talking about my book...
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Paul Christensen Book Talk - "Fraught Futures: Hope, Connection, and the Unhoused across Tokyo"
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Tokyo underground - impossible crowds or uncannily liminal
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The number of boomer men unable to leave the car and go into the grocery store with their wife is reaching comically epidemic proportions.
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
To base your entire fascist platform on "Japan first" but then go with elementary school textbook English on your posters is peak loser.
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
What you see at 2:00am when the jet lag hits all the way.
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Japanese terminology as ridiculous self-help industry gimmick continues to thrive...
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
My local Books-a-million fighting the jingoistic bullshit
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
A blog post about an article. All credit to @clsturtz.bsky.social!
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Shōshi kōreika, demographic decline, and gender inequality in Japan - bajs
In early 2020, more than 34,000 people across Japan were ...
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
@ajawoods.bsky.social book is outstanding AND it reminded me of the Lyndon LaRouche canvassers deceiving my grandmother into a donation outside a Ralph's in the early 90's so... Clear indicator of accuracy?
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The Brazil cover of @lclaberge.bsky.social Marx for Cats fucking rocks.
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
New article time with @clsturtz.bsky.social @cmcclean.bsky.social @tomphuongle.bsky.social and other cool but not on bluesky people.
tandfonline.com
Demographic decline as an idiom of distress: Rethinking gender (In)equality in Japan
The world faces overlapping crises of global scale and consequence. Given limited attention and capacity, which crises garner attention and framing as important? Which are neglected in ways reflect...
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
An administrator today said at the institute meeting that they are "monitoring affordability" - corporate speak really needs to die.
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
When your building's elevator ads remind you of the full grotesque scale of US empire...
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
For today's #linguisticlandscape fuck you payface
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
The US campaign to starve Cuba of fuel should be understood as genocidal. They are targeting a whole nation, deliberately destroying conditions necessary for life, in flagrant violation of international law. Pure barbarism, there is no other way to describe it.
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Periodic reminder that All Cats Are Beautiful.
theguardian.com
Rio’s bloodiest day: the untold story of Brazil’s most deadly police raid
In interviews with community leaders, lawyers, security specialists and bereaved relatives, the Guardian pieces together how an operation targeting a criminal gang left 122 people dead last October
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
A sampling of books given prominent placement at Rio bookstores that never seem to get the same treatment in the US...
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Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus @apjjf.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Is Japan a cautionary tale or a fetishized object that lets scholars and policymakers avoid hard questions? Paul Christensen explores this dynamic as part of our ongoing series, Critical Asian Scholarship in a Time of Global Crisis. Read the full article here: apjjf.org/2026/1/chris... #Japan
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
My wife @oceanana.bsky.social is one of the illegally fired federal workers profiled here.
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
My declaration for (particularly) Japan studies as the world burns.
apjjf.org
If Japan is the future, why aren’t we more upset? - Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
We don't need a more polite hyper-capitalist genocidal emperor #Socialistsunday
People spend so much time mocking Trump or waiting for him to be impeached. And the danger with that kind of obsession with a single person is that you don't see the system that produced him."
Arundhati Roy
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
"Education is an investment, not a cost."
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Antifascist helmet.
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
¡Allende Presidente!
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
The Andes!!!
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
The US aggression against Venezuela is naked imperialism. All pretext has been exposed as farce. An invasion would cause tens of thousands of deaths. Every sane person must oppose this madness.
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
@nytimes.com reporting on how my wife @oceanana.bsky.social was illegally fired from her position at NOAA.
nytimes.com
She Tracked the Health of Fish That Coastal Communities Depend On
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
アルミ。
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
The absurdity of the motorcycle radio is matched only by its vulgarity.
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
The Japan=prestige (and thus expensive) in Brazil is wild. R$100 for sunscreen that's usually less than ¥1,000.
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Putting aside for a moment how vulgar and stupid the name change was, how many thousands of hours continue to be needlessly wasted making people change this shit everywhere?!?
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
"Capital abhors a limits, not matter how festively imposed" -Marx, probably. #brazil
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Bom dia
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
New book! Fraught Futures: Hope, Connection, and the Unhoused across Tokyo, under contract with @cornellupress.bsky.social
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The US obsession with personalized license plates is weird - where desperate demands for individualizing attention meet bureaucratic surveillance through status quo affirming propaganda.
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Time to watch season 2 again (cause it's unquestionably the best season)...
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Entry number infinity on the "not for beginners" list.
nytimes.com
A New Symbol of the Brazilian Right: the American Flag
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Terre Haute's realest real one.
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
WTF Brazil?! The sushirrito was begging for a cartoon depiction and instead you went full on racist caricature...
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
JFC this is particularly disturbing in an already disturbed world!
nytimes.com
Trump Directs Military to Target Foreign Drug Cartels
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Paul Christensen @takadanobaba.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
"What is of value in any society, whatever the mode of production, will be judged according to the imaginative and ethical principles guiding communal life" is a great distillation of Graeber by @leninology.bsky.social.
lrb.co.uk
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