In the following interview, 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.
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David Graeber Interview with ReadySteadyBook
A 2011 interview where David Graeber speaks to ReadySteadyBook about his ideas on Marxism, his expulsion from Yale University and anarchist anthropology.
David Graeber interview: ‘So many people spend their working lives doing jobs they think are unnecessary’
The anarchist author, coiner of the phrase ‘We are the 99%’, talks to Stuart Jeffries about ‘bullshit jobs’, our rule-bound lives and the importance of play.
David Graeber on acting like an anarchist
What is your first memory of political awareness?
I remember a 1960s peace march in Central Park. And another on a beach on Fire Island, of all places. I was carrying a sign that said ‘We want peace’ and some older guy, noticing I was seven years old, asked me if I understood what it meant. I seem to remember telling him that the meaning was self-evident.
David Graeber On Jeremy Corbyn, ‘The Most Unlikely Leader Ever’: In Conversation with the London-Based Writer and Anthropologist
In the matter of Tory rule in England, David Graeber has been writing since before the Brexit vote about an “efflorescence of resistance” and a lifting of England’s culture of despair. In this interview, Graeber talks to Christopher Lydon about the recent UK elections and potential change to come.
Debt’s history, implications, and critical perspective
An interview by Alex Bradshaw around Graeber's research on Debt and it's implication on the historical analysis of things like money, financial markets and social relations.
Fancy Forms of Paperwork and the Logic of Financial Violence
In this wide-ranging interview for ROAR’s third issue, he speaks about the unexpected 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.
Finance Is Just Another Word for Other People’s Debts
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.
Fun with David Graeber
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.