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The “lean and mean” ideal is applied much more to productive workers than to office cubicles. It is especially true in companies whose profits come from finance rather than producing anything. Executives who pride themselves on downsizing use the money to hire troops of people as their feudal retinues creating sort of a managerial feudalism.
Interview on economist.com
Why the defence claims for capitalism don’t hold up?
How it does not matter to the bureaucratic mentality what is being implemented.
Why police is “bureaucrats with weapons”?
Interview by JP O’Malley, published on bellacaledonia.org
Vera Mey and Nika Dubrovsky discuss their shared experiences as part of the conference series “Challenging Capitalist Modernity,” in which Dubrovsky had taken part on behalf of her organization, Anthropology for Kids.
Published on https://artsoftheworkingclass.org
About:
- Radical models in anthropology (Marx, Mauss, Foucault)
- Direct action and anarchism
- Departure from the Yale University
Interview by Mark Thwaite (ReadySteadyBook), published on libcom.org
David Graeber in conversation with Jamie Stern-Weiner
Discussion about bullshit jobs. However, there also might be bullshit education, and what about bullshit leisure..
Technological advance hasn’t really freed up our time.
Interview by Andrei Babitsky (1964-2022), published on academia.edu
On the history of inequality, the role of debt in contemporary capitalism, the nature of money as a social relation, the violent and self-destructive logic of financialization, the class power of the 1 percent, and the challenges of building a radical-democratic movement against the rule of finance.
Interview by ROAR, published on roarmag.org
Odd things happened in fall 2011 as Occupy Wall Street began to inhabit down- town Manhattan. People rode the subway carrying signs that touted the merits of the Glass-Steagall Act; they started sidewalk conversations about corporate person-hood and about the social purpose of derivatives.
About the background of the book “Anarchy - in a Manner of Speaking”, collective decision-making process, the search for alternatives. A new economic theory should replace “production” with “care” and “consumption” with “freedom”.
Interview by Peterson Roberto da Silva, in London, at David’s office. Published on https://anarchiststudies.noblogs.org
Play is, if anything, the basis of all physical reality, it’s the ultimate natural principle. And if you think of the world that way, it’s a very different place.
Transcribed from This is Hell! Radio‘s 8 February 2014 episode and printed with permission.
About democracy, debt cancellation, links between debt and military interventionism, problems of the future
Interview by Milenko Srećković, published in the Serbian Daily
In this interview about his book on bullshit jobs, David Graeber discusses the role of unions, the challenges posed by automation and “the revolt of the caring classes.”
Interview by Chris Brooks, published on roarmag.org
