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Thinking about the loss of the freedom to disobey, it’s astonishing how rich the English vocabulary is for obsequious behaviour, esp. with lexical borrowings. We have flunkeys, minions, bootlickers, toadies, kowtowers, lickspittles .. it’s endless. Do other languages do this?

I’m thrilled to announce that #TheDawnofEverything has won the prestigious 20th Wenjin Book Prize, awarded by the National Library of China. Congratulations to David Graeber! mp.weixin.qq.com/s/XkXrhR7b4LBp…

Congratulations! I only wish David Graeber were here to see it — it’s wonderful to see so many recognizing it as a work of true brilliance.

For my friend (the 20th Wenjin Book Prize)

Many congratulations to David Wengrow! ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/apr/…

Huge Congrats David and David 🍾

Just finished "The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber (RIP) and David Wengrow. It's hard to overstate the importance of this book - it is a masterclass in expanding one's possibility space. So much of what we think we know about "humanity" needs to be reconsidered.

Shortly, I’ll be in the comments section of the The Guardian discussing the “cloud fascism” article published today. As I see, there are already 340 comments. So let’s begin to talk. Here’s the piece theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Congratulations to Professor David Wengrow (UCL Institute of Archaeology) on receiving the prestigious 2025 Wenjin Book Award from the National Library of China for his international best-seller ‘The Dawn of Everything’, about the origins of human civilisation. bit.ly/4kemSsg

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Time for a collective rethink? #TheDawnOfEverything

Korean edition just arrived and is absurdly beautiful. I love the toppled crown floating through the void … leading nowhere. #TheDawnOfEverything

Which is why we called it the Kim Kardashian theory of the origin of the state ..

This edited volume represents a serious effort to rethink categories of human political development, based on new archaeological data from across the world. 🙏 to Justin Jennings for inviting me to write a preface (in which I note a debt to Carole Crumley) routledge.com/9781032856926

Opinion | Syrian Freedom Is Dangerously Incomplete - The New York Times nytimes.com/2025/05/28/opi…

There sure are a lot of interesting ideas for organizing human civilization in various indigenous societies

Now this looks interesting..

NEW: Salman Abu Sitta is a Nakba survivor and historian of Palestine. Together, we digitally reconstructed his birthplace, the village of al-Ma’in, exploring its history and documenting how, in 1948, the village was destroyed and its people forcibly expelled: