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DEBT: THE FIRST 5,000 YEARS BY DAVID GRAEBER – READING GROUP PART 12
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor
PIRATE ENLIGHTENMENT DISCUSSION
In April 2023, we start a series of discussions and round tables online and offline and hope to continue them throughout the year. We invited friends of David Graeber, historians, anthropologists, artists, and activists to hold online meetings in which to talk about one of the topics covered in ‘Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia’. […]
ANOTHER ART WORLD, PART 1: ART COMMUNISM AND ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY
We will read Another Art World, Part 1: Art Communism and Artificial Scarcity by David Graeber and Nika Dubrovsky The idea for this reading group came from a question Max Puchalsky asked while reading Walter Benjamin’s text The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Max Puchalsky: I was also thinking about Another Art World, […]
BETWEEN FASCISM AND COMMUNISM: THE AESTHETICIZATION OF POLITICS AND THE POLITICIZATION OF ART
This is a follow-up of the reading group on Walter Benjamin’s text The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. We ran out of time to read Timothy O’Leary’s text Fat, Felt and Fascism: The Case of Joseph Beuys. This discussion will include the essay by Boris Groys On art activism, which makes reference both […]
DEBT: THE FIRST 5,000 YEARS BY DAVID GRAEBER – READING GROUP PART 11
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor
ROY BHASKAR’S ‘ENLIGHTENED COMMON SENSE’ AND ‘FROM SCIENCE TO EMANCIPATION’ – READING GROUP PART 6
You can access the text here
ROY BHASKAR’S ‘ENLIGHTENED COMMON SENSE’ AND ‘FROM SCIENCE TO EMANCIPATION’ – READING GROUP PART 5
One of the most influential voices in the philosophy of science and a political revolutionary David Graeber about Roy Bhaskar You can access the text here
DEBT: THE FIRST 5,000 YEARS BY DAVID GRAEBER - READING GROUP PART 10
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor
Events list
KARAOKE Reading Group
The concept is simple enough: 1. Pick a text you like. We will start this experiment with texts by David Graeber, but in the future (I promise!) we will expand our range to include other authors. A good karaoke text is one that you like and one that is not too long – try to […]
The Dawn of Everything | LSE Online Event
Join us for this event in which David Wengrow will be in conversation with Alpa Shah about his new book co-authored with the late David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. A new science of history, it overturns our ideas of social evolution, and reveals new possibilities for human emancipation. Drawing on […]
FIGHT CLUB of MUSEUM OF CARE
David Graeber vs. Thomas Hobbes Michael Hudson and the fight for civilization Jean-Baptiste Say
FIGHTS CLUB: MICHAEL HUDSON VERSUS THOMAS PIKETTY
RSA, Museum of Care, David Graeber foundation for the 1st year of the anniversary of David’s death we hosted the first Fight Club debate. September 23, 2021 The renowned academic economists: Michael Hudson and Thomas Piketty will meet on the anniversary of David Graeber’s death and the 10th-anniversary publication of his book “Debt 5,000 Years” […]
Visual Assembly / 22 September 2021
Join us on September 22 at 3 PM Madrid time for the 1st year memorial of David Graeber, in person or on zoom: https://bit.ly/3kifxZY Meeting ID: 604 596 7588 Passcode: CITY Here are all the details on the Museum of Care website!
DAVID GRAEBER’s DISCUSSION: “How to change the course of human history,”
ANTIUNIVERSITY NOW x ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR 2021 A discussion of How to change the course of human history, which was the basis for David Graeber and David Wengrow’s book, is due out in October 2021. MON 06.09.21 20:00 – 22:00 The writings of anarchist and anthropologist David Graeber have broken open new ways to think about […]
Today is 1 year since David’s death
Here is a couple of years ago in Berlin and this is today at helle-panke Am 2. September 2020 verstarb im Alter von 59 Jahren überraschend der Anarchist, Sohn eines Spanienkämpfers, Aktivist der „Occupy Wallstreet“-Bewegung und Bestseller-Autor David Graeber.
Exhibition “Voicing the silence.”
The project responds to the current conservative turn that has empowered patriarchal systems in many societies today. In recent years, legislative initiatives aimed at limiting women’s rights have been numerous: decriminalization of domestic violence in Russia, Turkey’s Istanbul Convention exit, and new laws restricting abortion in the USA and Poland. All of this exacerbates women’s […]
Every week: preparation to the Visual Assembly in Madrid
You can read about the preparations for Carnival on this blog https://v-a.city/blogs/ If you are willing and able to help us, send us an email. The main thing we need now is technical help online and in Madrid on the square.
Preparation for the Visual Assembly in Madrid
Visual Assemblies, starting with our first Assembly on Portabello Road, were conceived as a tool for planning social spaces. Here’s a video in which @davidgraeber explaining how it’s supposed to work. https://davidgraeber.org/videos/a-visual-assembly-how-to-reorganize-a-hospital/https://davidgraeber.org/videos/a-visual-assembly-how-to-reorganize-a-hospital/
Music Library of David online
David listened to music all the time: when he was writing books when he was taking a bath, when he was making dinner, or when he was doing the dishes. He also listened to music with me in the evenings, stopping from time to time, so he can read to me the texts of the […]
David Graeber’s Debt, ten years on.
David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5,000 Years turned everything we think we know about money, debt and society on its head, and has, in the ten years since it was first published, become a modern classic. A new hardback edition, with introduction by distinguished economist Thomas Piketty, is published this year by Melville House. To mark the […]