David Graeber on acting like an anarchist
Interviews
in media
Joshua Frank revisiting the wrongful termination from Yale
4 Sept 2020
David Graeber is Gone: Revisiting His Wrongful Termination from Yale
Mark Thwaite (ReadySteadyBook) interview about direct action, anthropology and the departure from Yale
16 January 2007
David Graeber Interview with ReadySteadyBook
Movements, strategies, visions, solutions
16 Dec 2011
About movements: Occupy, the Global Justice Movement, revolutions of 1848, anti-war, feminism, etc. The Gandhian strategy. The distinction between “visions,” “demands,” and “solutions”
Interview by Ross Wolfe, published on platypus1917.org
Myths about the debt and money
26 Aug 2011
- Barter is a myth.
- Debt is a moral concept long before it becomes an economic concept.
- The urge to return a gift.
Interview by Philip Pilkington, published on nakedcapitalism.com
Ni dieu ni dette/The era of bureaucracy (In Russian)
2016
Эра хищнической бюрократизации
Translation into Russian
Published in Socialter No 14, 5 Dec 2015
https://www.socialter.fr/article/numero-14-au-sommaire
No. This is a Genuine Revolution
26 Dec 2014
An interview around Graeber's trip to Rojava, the "democratic experiment" of the Syrian Kurds and the hope it instilled about the possibilities of the future.
Interview by Pinar Öğünç, published on znetwork.org
On the word “protest”, direct action, the debt, etc
Dec 2011
Why the word “protest” is problematic, on direct action, the trick of Madagascar, an anarchist theory of revolution, empty promises, and the debt.
Interview by Ellen Evans and Jon Moses, published on thewhitereview.org
Outside the structures of coercion
2015
On the Occupy Movement, creating one’s own spaces, the idea of prefiguration, the meaning of vanguardist, etc.
Interview by Zaki Abbas and Qalandar Bux Memon, published on nakedpunch.com
Rachel Jones (Bookforum talks) about anthropology, activism and imaginations
19 Mar 2012
Bookforum talks with David Graeber
RANGE magazine interview about debt and capitalism
28 Feb 2020
Convoys, Capitalism, and Cancelling Debt: A Conversation with David Graeber
Rebecca Solnit (Guernica) interview about transactions and money
1 May 2012
David Graeber: Beholden
Rebecca Solnit and David Graeber on anarchism as a problem-solving tool, the return of debtors' prisons, and why communism is ingrained in capitalism