Kolaps #9: Kuřík, Abu Ghosh - Intelektuální snobismus Graeber nesnášel, raději obsazoval náměstí
Kolaps Podcast, Jan Bělíček and Pavel Šplíchal
Yasar Abu Ghosh and Bohuslav Kuřík on the Collapse podcast talking about David Graeber and his importance on the global anarchist scene.
At the very beginning of September, the American anthropologist and anarchist thinker David Graeber died unexpectedly at the age of 59. He was one of the most important leftist intellectuals of recent years. His book Debt: The First 5,000 Years, on the role of debt in human history, was particularly seminal. But he also played a significant role in the alterglobalization movement and in the formation of the Occupy Wall Street movement of 2011, for example. He is also credited with coining the phrase ‘We are the 99 percent,’ which has since become popular and was used by Bernie Sanders in his presidential campaign. The current episode of the Collapse podcast therefore presents his main ideas and attempts to answer how Graeber was important to the global anarchist scene, how he managed to transcend it, and what his significance as an anthropologist and academic was.
The guests – anthropologists Yasar Abu Ghosh and Bob Kuřík, who work at the Department of General Anthropology at the Faculty of Humanities in Prague.