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18-08-2021 a reading group: ‘The Dawn of Everything’ by David Graeber and David Wengrow,
The second reading group meeting in which we begin to read a book ‘The Dawn of Everything’ by David Graeber and David Wengrow.
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Culture as creative refusal.
Many aspects of culture that we are used to interpreting in essentialist or even tacitly evolutionist terms might better be seen as acts of self-conscious rejection, or as formed through a schizmogenetic process of mutual definition against the values of neighbouring societies.
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Wengrow & the late David Graeber
Wed, Nov 10 2021 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm Central Library, Dweck Center
NOTE: This event is full as of Friday, October 29, at 12:00 noon EST. If you signed up after this time, you may attend via the Zoom/livestream. The link to attend will be emailed to you the day of the event.
Co-presented by the Brooklyn Public Library, Greenlight Bookstore, and n+1
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