It is becoming increasingly clear that the age of revolutions is not over. It’s becoming equally clear that the global revolutionary movement in the twenty first century, will be one that traces its origins less to the tradition of Marxism, or even of socialism narrowly defined, but of anarchism.
Lecture about activism for the Yes Lab
29 Mar 2012
Yes Lab Creative Activism Thursdays with David Graeber
David Graeber is an eminent anthropologist and anarchist who has been politically active for a long time, and active in the Occupy movement since its proto-beginnings in June 2011; he has called Occupy “the opening salvo in a wave of negotiations over the dissolution of the American Empire.” His most recent book is Debt: The First Five Thousand Years. David teaches at Goldsmiths College, London. He will discuss culture as creative refusal—how what we think of as primordial “cultures,” historically, can just as easily be conceived as social movements which were to some degree successful in achieving their aims.
The Yes Lab helps activists carry out creative actions for good causes. It was started by the Yes Men, the mischief-makers behind dozens of activist actions as seen in their two feature films, “The Yes Men” and “The Yes Men Fix the World.”
Part 2