"I found myself turning into an idiot!": David Graeber explains the life-sapping reality of bureaucratic life.
The activist-academic and Occupy Wall Street champion tells Salon about his new book on the bureaucratic state
Interviews
in media
Finance Is Just Another Word for Other People’s Debts
1 January 2014
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.
Francesca Polletta interview about the Direct Action Network (DAN)
March 2001
“This is what democracy looks like”: A conversation with Direct Action Network Activists David Graeber , Brooke Lehman, Jose Lugo, and Jeremy Varon
Fun with David Graeber
8 Feb 2014
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.
Imagination – the Solution for Society’s Problems
14 Feb 2014
About democracy, debt cancellation, links between debt and military interventionism, problems of the future
Interview by Milenko Srećković, published in the Serbian Daily
Imagining a world with no bullshit jobs
Aug 2018
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
Interview by Aro Velmet on anarchism, work and bureaucracy
9 May 2017
Anarchism, work and bureaucracy. An interview with David Graeber. Aro Velmet, Vikerkaar 4-5/2017
Interview by David Whelan (vice.com) about bullshit jobs
10 Feb 2015
Anthropologist David Graeber Explains Why Dead-End Jobs Exist.
Interview on alternet.org by Lynn Stuart Parramore about democracy in America
24 Apr 2013
'A Kaleidoscopic Sense of Possibility': Interview with David Graeber on Democracy in America
Interview on discoveries, knowledge and the restaurant kitchen phenomenon
2016
An Interview with David Graeber (2016)
In 2016, Rachael Kiddey interviewed David Graeber about the concept of ‘discovery’ and about his research.
Is Universal Basic Income a remedy for bullshit jobs?
11 Oct 2018
David Graeber : le revenu universel, remède aux jobs à la con ?
On bullshit jobs and bullshitisation, capitalism or feudalism, Foucault, anarchism, the Occupy movement
Interview by Philippe Vion-Dury, published on socioalter.fr
It’s not called capitalism, but feudalism
27 Jan 2016
On
- the radical Left and the institutional Left
- arguments for capitalism are no longer there
- there is no such thing as “financial deregulation”
- We are living in the era of predatory bureaucratization
Interviewed by Arthur De Grave, published on ouishare.net