Freedom of Information Act & archival research into anthropology & CIA, FBI, Pentagon, ethics, history of anthropology, & the militarization of everything.
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Download my 2016 Duke University Press book, Cold War Anthropology: The CIA, the Pentagon, & the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology, provided free through the Knowledge Unlatched Program. #Anthropology #HistoryOfAnth #ColdWar #FOIA #Ethics #CreativeCommons oapen.org/search?identifier=…
University of Washington book talk for Cold War Deceptions: The Asia Foundation and the CIA. Thursday, Oct 17, 4:00-5:30. COM Building, Rm 120. #FOIA #Anthropology #CIA
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I can think of no greater measure of how broken US democracy is than how many members of the American "left" will enthusiastically vote for the same presidential candidate as Dick Cheney.
#DarthVader #LesserEvil #BrokenDemocracy
The late #JamesScott was a complicated man (like Shaft), with youthful embrace of US intelligence agencies that I & others document. I corresponded with him on this, but I can't say I fully understand. I wouldn't reduce him to these youthful engagements, but find puzzling. #CIA
Celebrating at Shanghai University after a great conference critically examining Cold War influences on the work of Clifford Geertz.
Here's a link to a podcast with me in conversation with an interesting group of scholars at Bauhaus University Weimar working on Gregory Bateson's deep ecology: open.spotify.com/episode/4J1…
#anthroplogy #anthrotwitter #history
University of Washington Press just sent me a single copy of my book hot off the press. Eight years in the making, will ship to your favorite bookseller in 3 weeks. #CIA #ColdWar #Anthropology
My Oregon State Univ talk next week on how CIA used the Asia Foundation to run propaganda campaigns, gather intelligence, & shape discourse between 1951-67. My book on this out in Feb. This is my chance to address half the PAC-12 schools in one afternoon. events.oregonstate.edu/event…
Link below to my long review essay on Patrick Schmidt's history of Harvard's Dept of Social Relations. But this Haiku summary can save you the trouble of reading my 7,000 word essay:
Harvard men vainly
sought theory of everything
while avoiding Marx
tandfonline.com/eprint/ZENJR…
David Price retweeted
We are hosting a conversation on Bateson's relationship to anthropology in the 1940s with anthropologist David Price - Gregory Bateson and the OSS: World War II and Bateson's Assessment of Applied Anthropology on JSTOR enactingecologicalaesthetics… Monday 2 October
I think that I shall never see
An FBI who doesn't spy on thee
A rogue bureau with hunger pressed
To invade the privacy of those who protest
#FBI #FOIA #Surveillance
dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/…
On the intersection of Marx and Merckx: my critique of the best bike race you never saw, now up on #CounterPunch. #Vuelta #SeppKuss #Cycling #Marx
counterpunch.org/2023/09/19/…
Listen to "The Santiago Boys," the best 9/11 podcast out there.
#September11 #Chile
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Below review from CIA's internal "Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf" e-broadsheet.
Hope @PlutoPress can use this like blurb on Brautigan's "Trout Fishing In America" by Field and Stream magazine confusedly stating the book doesn't appear to have anything to do with trout fishing
Such a dumb American fake solution that avoids any effort to limit the collection of this data in the first place.
wired.com/story/ndaa-2023-da…
My article in #TheProgressive on #Vonnegut and dangers of #AI.
"The greatest immediate risk presented to humanity by AI is not some robotic control of military weapons, but instead its application within the logic of capitalism."
progressive.org/latest/kurt-… #anthropology