“When I conceived the idea of writing my own ‘Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value’ in the late 1990s, I originally … imagined its appearance would be followed by irate critiques from many of the principals insisting I had got their core arguments wrong, and a flurry of productive debates. Nothing of the sort ensued.” David Graeber (2013) from “It is Value that Brings Universes into Being.”
The third session of the Fetish and Value group, led and moderated by Stas Kraev, on April 4th, 2024. On this meeting we discussed David Graeber’s essay “Turning the Modes of Production Inside Out“.
