in media
On the
- protests during the Miami global talks in 2003 and Zuccotti Park in 2011.
- the efficiency claim of capitalism, while a lot of jobs exist that do not seem to make a lot sense
- the financialization of the economy.
Interview by Aro Velmet, published on Euozine.com and Vikerkaar 4-5/2017
The relationship between power and knowledge can be called the “Restaurant Kitchen Phenomenon” . It means that only the bottom of the hierarchy knows what is going on, the top doesn’t.
Interview by Rachael Kiddey, published in issue X of the ISRF Bulletin.
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
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
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
- 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
Эра хищнической бюрократизации
Translation into Russian
Published in Socialter No 14, 5 Dec 2015
https://www.socialter.fr/article/numero-14-au-sommaire
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
From the despair fatigue emerges the steampunk - fascination with technology of the future while, actually, there is no future. Corbyn’s idea was to move back to the time where things hadn’t gone wrong yet. Unfortunately, he ran in an election where no left candidate would have won.
Interviewed by Christopher Lydon, published on lithub.com
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
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
Yale did not renew the teaching contract of David Graeber giving no official reasons. Anything that was discussed in the senior faculty meeting was confidential. There were hints about the volume of publications, excessive international recognition and student support. But the fact is that David Graeber was the declared anarchist scholar.
Interview by Joshua Frank, published on Counterpunch.org
