St. Paul man walks nine hours to produce time-lapse tour of Green Line: mprne.ws/rW3iP

I just published “Regimes of Writing: Our Relation to Written Words” medium.com/@amirpouyan/re…

I just published “Don Draper on Journal-keeping vs. Strategic Writing” medium.com/@amirpouyan/do…

Did Kuhn know about Fleck's Thought Collectives when writing about paradigms? He basically wrote about the same idea some 30yrs before Kuhn.

An Indian farmer unable to return the loan he rcvd to buy pesticide cmtd suicide by taking the pesticide he bought using the loan $. 1/2

Wrong to talk about it as a symbolic suicide; it's a "literal" death: his debt literally killed him. 2/2

Freud 101: things take the form of their opposites. Is it that difficult to grasp?

THE method/theoretical problem? When a model for behavior is used to account for behavior. Happens too often without people noticing it.

Fascinating! No matter who they vote for. Vacile Ceptoi will be the next mayor of this small #Romania'n town! :) bigstory.ap.org/article/be6a54…

Horace and Pete was probably some of the best TV I had watched in years. God-tier writing, excellent cast, breathtaking moments.

Teaching Derrida to UGs (at least bits & pieces of it) was more fun than expected. Gift to discuss Benedict; writing to discuss Messick.

Cassin's Sophistical Practice is a wonderful read. Of extraordinary significance is the link bw being of sophistics & Bataille's expenditure

Also: recovering rhetoric as such (sophistic) in Austin's illocutionary.

Esp. the response re constructing and recruiting academic superstars: insidehighered.com/news/2017/07/1…

I just published “The ‘Something Else’ of Written Words” medium.com/p/the-somethin…

I just published “The Tragedy of Fereydoun” medium.com/anthropolitik/…

My first post for anthropolitik :) x.com/mizantropoloji…

Whoever finds language interesting in itself is different from whoever only recognizes in it the means for interesting thoughts. --Nietzsche

The practice, also known as "dowsing" or "witching," [...] involves walking slowly around an area while holding an L-shaped rod in each hand. When the two rods cross, that supposedly means you're standing over water. cbc.ca/radio/asithapp…

“Verbal Hygiene: The 2008 Purification of a 1921 Iranian Ballad”: What does the omission of a single line in the cover of an old song tell us about power, language, and identity? medium.com/anthropolitik/…