Glynn Marshes writes:
And I didn’t even know twitter essays were a thing.
Topic: social contracts, protests, and whether contemporary police theories about crowd control are a throwback to 19th century mob violence literature.
In seventeen numbered 140-character tweets.
With references!
5. The scholarly literature I’m thinking of comes from E.P. Thompson, Hobsbawm, George Rudes, Natalie Zemon Davis & many others.
Blowhard, Esq.
Callowman
Sherbrooke
Eddie Pensier
Enzo Nakamura
Epaminondas
Fabrizio del Wrongo
Fenster
Brundle Guy
Glynn Marshes
Paleo Retiree
Atypical Neurotic
Question Lady
Sax von Stroheim
Sir Barken Hyena
The Mistaken
Uncouth Reflections 
Like every Jeet Heer “twitter essay,” tendentious and pseudo-academic.
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Reblogged this on Patriactionary and commented:
He told us which people he was thinking of, but not which works of theirs.
Epic fail!
FredR’s comment is spot on.
In light of which, I wonder how long before we’ll see Malcolm Gladwell and other similar pompous twits do these, if not already…
Back when I was a Twit, I sometimes did run-on multitweet rants, but then, I don’t pretend to be anything other than a pompous amateur opinionated blowhard, at best. 🙂
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so oookay, I’m a writer, and looking at this thang as a form.
Seems like an interesting challenge to distill an argument into tweets. Is anyone besides this Jeer Heet doing it?
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