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Alter kacker (it's Yiddish; do a web search); upper Manhattanite; Interested in: sociolinguistics, history, early film (including silents!), the commons, degrowth, open source (and more generally: open access, open culture, etc.). Focus on community: Its * history, * practice, * socioplitical dynamics, * place in human evoulution, * (relative) neglect by philosophy and social science * role in the 21st century That's maybe enough to give you an idea of me...