David Graeber on Debt at THBTP Salon

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Event organised by The Haircut Before the Party (THBTP)

2011

Anarchist anthropologist and lecturer at Goldsmiths University, David Graeber discusses his new book ‘Debt; the first 5000 years’ at THBTP salon. He discusses the relevance of debt to understanding our world today, the direct relationship of debt to morals, three modes of interaction (of which debt, through the mode of exchange, has a hegemony over others) and finally some discussion on monetary transactions and the relationship of money to power and nation states.