I’m preparing a review essay of Pierre Krebs’ Fighting for the Essence (Arktos 2012). I received it Friday and, upon a cursory perusal, it earned an immediate reading (no small feat considering the titanic pile of books in my stack). Despite suffering from a tendency among GRECE thinkers to subscribe to a form of pluralism […]
Read More To do: Krebs Fighting For The EssenceDeath Before Dishonor is a Boston band. They champion what I call “muscular hardcore,” more metal than punk, and utilize breakdowns and even verse-chorus song structures. Politically, the band, and others like them (Agnostic Front, Hatebreed, Terror, Palehorse, Lionheart, Death Threat, etc.) are hard to categorize in an American context. This […]
Read More Ceremony ZOO Review Essay, part twoI embraced hardcore music in 2008. After having lived amongst Romans, Ultras, skinheads, and fascists for more than year, a return to normal/bourgeois/American life was simply not possible. Even for my wife such a return was impossible. (Anyone who dissuades you from having your spouse in the field is misleading you. Of course, my wife […]
Read More Ceremony ZOO Review Essay, part oneWould anyone at Anthropology News even be capable of a conversation on the cultural costs of illegal immigration? I read every issue’s obligatory article on heroic border crossers (Heroic for what? Being starved into drastic measures of appetite satiation? The never-ending search for bourgeois comfort?) while waiting for one person courageous enough to wonder why […]
Read More Amusing 3Everyone involved in academia should be forced to read Chapter Two of Kyle Bristow’s White Apocalypse. He demonstrates with great care the functioning of a truth regime in the service of liberal multiculturalism. It sure is warm and cozy for the happy slaves inside, but when you step foot beyond the regime’s protective grace, you’ll […]
Read More Amusing too: White ApocalypseSomething overheard this morning. “Is it just me, or has every ‘progression’ made by anthropology just been another step away from methods that produced truths deemed unpleasant by the weakest among us?”
Read More AmusingHaving been forced (by what, my vanity, or the desperate last-days of Capitalism?) to endure the indignity and embarrassment of a recent job interview, let me address those who, in seeking to consider me for an appointment, have come to my website. Imagine the chagrin of my would-be employers when I, a derelict of any […]
Read More An Open Letter to Search Committees(Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins; Trash Talk Collective’s Awake; Tim Hecker’s Dropped Pianos; a Made for Vancouver day; Thoreau’s Walden, Kaczynski’s Technological Slavery.) It’s an odd thing when work gets in the way of actual intellectual pursuit. However, that is the nature of being an academic (even one who is ‘unemployed’). Papers have been refereed […]
Read More Thoughts on Walden, Unabombing, and AnthropologyMy professional life has been devoted to explaining this photo to the uninitiated. To an American, an anti-immigrant message such as this (Enough immigrants, homes and work for Italians) accompanied by a swastika makes sense. But, it is signed by an Ultra group, AS Roma Ultras, associated with the AS Roma soccer team. The extreme […]
Read More AboutI have just completed two essays for publication: “The Ultras, the State, and the Legitimacy of Violence,” for Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development; and “Roman Soccer Fans and the Search for Stasis in an Eternally Changing City,” for a book tentatively titled Changing Faces of the Eternal City. Additionally, I am shopping […]
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