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Download War posters
These posters are from the Wars of the Past and Wars of the Future project. We invite you to download the posters you find interesting, print them out, hang them on the walls of your apartment and send us pictures. Below you will find several posters in different formats. You can download them in high […]
Omtankesmuseet
Omtankesmuseet är ett museum med många rum runt om i världen. Som i alla museum är några av rummen mer permanenta än andra. Nya rum öppnas, befintliga rum är upptagna eller ändrar funktion, andra rum överges och stängs. Det finns rum för läsning. Det finns rum för dans. Det finns rum för att snickra, […]
Library of Care
Dear readers and friends in Care! We are in the process of obtaining permission to distribute links to these texts, but here are the titles and authors of the books. Meanwhile, you can find the texts yourself online or in bookstores. This library was originally assembled by the curator of the room, Vassily Pigounides and now […]
Reading Group on Ayça Çubukçu’s David Graeber’s Anthropology of Human Possibilities
Ayça Çubukçu, who was a dear friend of David Graeber, uploaded on Academia the draft of a caring and insightful paper about him, partially published as a foreword to the German edition of Fragments. David Graeber’s Anthropology of Human Possibilities Chat 00:36:59 Michael Reinsborough: Maybe we can think of myth as inevitable- but some myths allow […]
Library of Care Reading List
Author(s) Title Publisher Year Link Agamben, Giorgio La guerra in Galizia Quodlibet 2023 Link Albert, Michael Realizing Hope: Life Beyond Capitalism Zed Books 2006 Anderson, Benedict Imagined Communities Benjamin, Walter The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 1969 Link Bakhtin, Mikhail Rabelais and His World 1984 […]
REMARKS ON WITTGENSTEIN’S REMARKS ON FRAZER
The following essay was prepared for the volume “The Mythology in Our Language”—an anthropological response to Wittgenstein’s famous critical commentaries on Sir James Frazer’s The Golden Bough, edited by Giovanni da Col and Stephan Palmier. The original conception of the book was to assign roughly 8 of Wittgenstein’s comments, which varied from one line to […]
Brain Trust Collection – October 2022
Our first exhibition is dedicated to the work of our friends and partners at the David Graeber Institute and Museum of Care, art activist groups like Extinction Rebellion and Ocean Rebellion with their connection to David’s work on Pirates and the XR Brain Trust. Part of the International AptArt Exhibition to celebrate the launch of […]
Here is a transcript of the 1st Fight Club: Michael Hudson and Thomas Piketty (English).
This debate between Michael Hudson and Thomas Piketty on September 23, 2021, is available on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWT0uvBLDbo The debate was monitored by Lynn Parramore, and introduced by David Graeber’s widow, Nika. Dubrovsky. Closing speach by Steve Keen. Nika: Hi, I’m Nika. I’m David’s wife. This is an event in the honor of the first anniversary […]
FIGHT CLUB: DAVID GRAEBER VS THOMAS HOBBES / JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
edifying and truthful dialogs Nika Dubrovsky and friends 1st Fight DAVID GRAEBER VS THOMAS HOBBES 1/1 THOMAS HOBBES It is true my ideas have come to structure the world. That is because my ideas are but a reflection of Nature. I merely have applied Reason to identify the organization and operations of civil society. Like […]
THE ORIGINS OF MODERN DEBT POLITICS Reading Materials
Reading material: Session 1: Please read the summery below. The intro farther down is a good way to immerse into the material even deeper but not required. Session 2: We keep a running document for people to catch up and comment. This should allow you to follow the discussion. Check the link below: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BrkeryoR_-gqstFs0WlIBhAFj3pzPwocS4HZBEcGtFI/edit?usp=sharing For […]
Political Treatise, Chap. 1 to 5 by Baruch Spinoza
Reading Group of 13 January, 2022 – Political Treatise, Chap. 1 to 5 by Baruch Spinoza. Facilitator for this session: Simona Ferlini. Here are Simona’s notes: I suggested to read the first V chapters of S’s TP for two reasons: 1. Because I think that this work is useful to better understand the tenth chapter […]
How to join Collective Documentary
To create a Collective Documentary, consider the following: Stage 1 Choose a person with whom you want to talk. A person who can contribute an interesting perspective to a collective conversation. You talk to this person, asking him/her/them questions and trying (as much as you can and as much as you wish) following the structure—asking […]
Trickle-down measuring cup
A small tuft can topple a big load, and it doesn’t necessarily take large amounts of sand to make a huge piece of machinery stop – just a single grain of sand is enough. Use the sand in a real, ritual or conceptual way to put spokes in the wheels of the neoliberalism’s power apparatus. […]
Conversation about…
(to be edited) Initially, this conversation arose from two points: the first was a Museum of Care reading group on Another Art world, which took place a few years ago. The second, a discussion of Walter Benjamin’s texts and the relationship of his texts to David Graeber’s texts. In the following, a wider conversation emerged […]
Reading Group on Walter Benjamin
We’re going to discuss an essay by Walter Benjamin The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction After reading Caroline Lillian Schopp’s excellent text about Franz Walther and drowning in texts about Beuys. We talked a lot with David about Beuys and tried to go to the exhibitions in Berlin to see his work. […]
Extracts From Another Art World, Part 1: Art Communism and Artificial Scarcity
Nika Dubrovsky and David Graeber
Franz Erhard Walther VS Joseph Beuys
Two of the most famous German artists were not friends. They were both engaged in participatory art and both strongly influenced our view of society. Yet their visions were radically different: Beuys called Walter a bureaucrat and a tailor. And Franz Erhard Walther felt humiliated and lonely in Boyce’s circle, so he lived in isolation […]
Discussion of Walter Benjamin’s “A Critique of Violence” – Part 2
Walter Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence” is a seminal text that in just a few steps dismantles the very idea that any form of legitimate violence can exist, or that means can be separated from ends so that a just end can make a wrong means just. For that alone, this would be a great text, […]
Discussion of Walter Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence”
Walter Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence” is a seminal text that in just a few steps dismantles the very idea that any form of legitimate violence can exist, or that means can be separated from ends so that a just end can make a wrong means just. For that alone, this would be a great text, […]
Museums of Care of the world unite!
“What if freedom were the ability to make up our minds about what it was we wished to pursue, with whom we wished to pursue it, and what sort of commitments we wish to make to them in the process? Equality, then, would simply be a matter of guaranteeing equal access to those resources needed […]
Notes: 22.04.2021 Assembly
Museum of Care projects, a new proposal for how to curate Museum of Care. Some thoughts about it here. 00:19:05 Mark : John, I’m not seeing the pdf in chat. Tx00:19:19 Mark : *link00:20:16 Yash Lad: I downloaded it on my laptop and and shared again — @Mark can you see it?00:24:36 John Fass: file […]
Thoughts on the Visual Assembly at the Busan Biennale
Soviet ideas of large-scale public spaces created by artists have their roots in the best-known modern utopia, Tommaso Campanella’s Sun Cities, which inherited the writings of Thomas Moore and, in turn, Plato’s Republic. The walls of Tommaso Campanella’s utopian “City of the Sun” were painted with educational murals, and the entire city became a school […]
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Chapters 3-4, On spiritual violence)
15 April, 2021 – Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Chapters 3-4, On spiritual violence) Facilitators: Greg Yudin (Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences) and Vassily Pigounides Graeber’s work is part of a larger anthropological tradition that exposes the self-contradictory view of human motivation espoused by modern economics. However, his own original view of economic motivation […]
Conservation Lab
At a time alive with the possibility for transformation and of building better worlds, what are the cultural care//takers to do? The Conservation Lab draws upon the central tenets that we inherit as object-based conservators, curators, technicians, photographers, and researchers: listening, slowed attention, care, a sensitivity to materials and environments, curiosity, collective and convivial endeavour, […]
Material Photographies Reading Group
curated by Conservation Lab The Material Photographies Reading Group meets regularly online to explore critical thinking/making around the photograph in its multiple forms and dynamic manifestations—to welcome new ways of thinking and celebrate the increasingly complex photosphere we inhabit. All are warmly invited to attend! Please find all the details below. As always, do get […]
Room of Idleness
Curator: Nika Dubrovsky. Room is looking for the co/curators, speakers and partners to b Idlers of all nations – unite! “Every mode of life has its conveniencies. The Idler, who habituates himself to be satisfied with what he can most easily obtain, not only escapes labours which are often fruitless, but sometimes succeeds better than […]
Anne Dubos
Anne Dubos is an anthropologist and a transmedia artist. Her research focuses on both fundamental objects such as Indian culture, embodied cognition, and praxeology, and the design of experimental apparatuses for dance and media. Since 2005, she has traced the history of Indian theatres, and has highlighted the variety of techniques of the actor’s body. […]
Notes: Mastodon Assembly 31.05
Questions raised at the Assembly: Notes Mastodon runs on the protocol called ActivityPub (https://activitypub.rocks) and it is part of Fediverse (https://fediverse.party). Mastodon is federated which means it has different servers which can interact with each other. If we have an existing Mastodon account – we can link it to an account in another social media […]
Harun Farocki & David Graeber: what is war.
In light of the events developing in Ukraine the forthcoming assembly will be dedicated to the works that both HF and DG wrote, produced or sketched on the subject of war. David Graeber on the War. One of the unpublished notes on the war: Main points: non-segmented forager societies tend not to have war (though […]
Charles Esche about Documenta 15
This text was originally published in Facebook of Charles Esche on 7th of August 2022. “I have had the privilege to be at documenta fifteen a couple of times now and it continues to fascinate, challenge and inspire. For me, one important aspect is the lack of utopian or messianic symbols or gestures in the […]
The Wars of the Past and the Wars of the Future
When a wallpaper is removed, often under it a layer of old newspapers will be found. What kinds of newspapers were around at the time of World War I? What appeals were made to the public by political activists, members of the government, and writers? big things are seen from a distance. a common proverb […]
DEBT IN DISCUSSION WITH MICHAEL HUDSON
Our reading group on “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” has been meeting twice a month since October and is now coming to an end with two final meetings left. On May 18, the Museum of Care invited an economist Michael Hudson to talk about debt and many other subjects we’ve explored throughout the reading group. […]
The Virtues of Diogenes, Part 1: World Building, featuring Anni Kajanus
A three-part series exploring the societal implications of interpersonal relations through the character of Diogenes and a merry band of legends. The question is, do you have the virtues to succeed at this quest? This will be part role play, part reading group where we will be introduced to a handful of real and mythological […]
Michael Hudson
Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He is the author of Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (Editions 1968, 2003, 2021), ‘and forgive them their debts’ (2018), J is for Junk Economics (2017), Killing the […]
Newsletter February 2024
Dear all, Welcome to our newsletter! Have a look at what we have in store for you in the first few months of 2024. We have been working hard on putting together our program and as always welcome suggestions from people who would like to organise events at the museum. We are also looking forward to seeing […]
A Talk on Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov “Personality and collective” with Kyrill Potapov and Corinna Lotz
“…The power of personality is always individually expressedas the power of the collective, that “ensemble” of individuals which were ideally represented, the power of the individualized universality of aspiration, needs, goals controlling it. This is the power of the historically accumulated energy of many individuals, concentrated in it, focused, and therefore capable of breaking the resistance of […]
KARAOKE Reading Group. Theme: Debt
The second Karaoke night is coming, and this time there’s a theme: ‘debt’! And by this we mean Debt: The First 5,000 Years, as it is the ten-year anniversary of publication. So the concept of the Karaoke reading group remains the same, but your chosen text must be from this work. If you want to […]
Book Launch: Self in the World: Connecting Life’s Extremes
If you are joining the book launch online, please use the link below on the 18th of May 2023 at 11:30. FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOOK: https://histanthro.org/news/self-in-the-world-by-keith-hart/ INTERVIEW WITH KEITH HART: https://bordersliteratureonline.net/globaldetails/keith_hart ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born in Manchester, Keith Hart (1943–) studied classics and social anthropology at Cambridge University. His research focuses on economic […]
Occupy Room
Is there a room you really want to help? It might be a room about your specialist subject, or it may be doing something you are passionate about. If it’s a reading room where you can join a zoom just join the zoom but for anything else follow this simple guide. I’m interested and passionate […]
Michael Hudson and Steve Keen
Our “fight” is about the need for structural reform BEYOND the good Saint-Simonian policy of taxing inherited wealth and progressive taxation of income and wealth. We focus on the need for a debt writedown, and also distinguish between taxing earned income and unearned economic rent – the 19th-century classical aim of value, price and rent […]
Michael Bakunin against Karl Marx
The dispute between Bakunin and Karl Marx highlighted the differences between anarchism and Marxism. Michael Bakunin strongly rejected Marx’s concept of the “dictatorship of the proletariat” in which the new state would be unopposed and would, theoretically, represent the workers. We all know how “In its struggle against the united power of the propertied classes, […]
Care Reading List
This reading list was put together for a series of Care Seminars held at LSE by David Graeber and his students. Bear, L., Ho, K., Tsing, A. L. and Yanagisako, S., 2015. Gens: A Feminist Manifesto for the Study of Capitalism. Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, March 30. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/gens-a-feminist-manifesto-for-the-study-of-capitalism. Sander-Staudt, M. (2011). Care ethics. In J. […]
Tools of Care
curated by Vassily Pigounides and Nika Dubrovsky Room curators control the objects and situations they take care of in the rooms. At the same time every visitor to the Museum can open their own room. You can use an existing example of a room and just make your own version of it, or you can […]
PRIVACY POLICY
Who we are Our website address is: https://museum.care Comments When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided […]
“The Museum of Care: imagining the world after the pandemic”
By David Graeber and Nika Dubrovsky Or more precisely, we are imagining a sane world after the virus, one where, instead of just trying to put things back the way they were, we act on what we’ve learned. For instance, a huge proportion of office work, especially administrative, managerial, marketing, legal, finance, consultancy and the […]
The power blower
The power blower is inspired by the historic Jericho trumpets. With it, you can warn about injustice, breathe life into the counter-power, beep out the sound of power or simply do as the trumpet-playing priests: blow the power to an end. It is confusingly similar to an ordinary party blower, but feel free to be […]
ASSEMBLY 26.07
Agenda: 1) Planning a schedule of lectures, meetings, and reading groups for the next six months:—- Monthly conversations with Keith Hart (Steve Bachler).—- Christian Walter’s new reading group, “The Collapse of Antiquity Reading Group” or “The Origins of Modern Debt Politics in Greece and Rome.” To be determined.—- Continuation of the series “David Graeber and […]
Scott Thompson: about Beuys, O’Leary and Benjamin’s text ‘The Work of art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’.
Nika has asked me to give a quick introduction to Timothy O’Leary’s article ‘Fat, Felt, and Fascism: the case of Joseph Beuys’, which, whether he intends to or not, questions whether Beuy’s ‘expanded concept of art’ was fascist, based on a close reading of Walter Benjamin’s text ‘The Work of art in the Age of […]
Coloring set against neoliberalism
Neoliberalism is an ideology and a political strategy that affects our lives and the state of the planet. Yet its supporters claim it does not exist. That is rather smart, because it makes it difficult to criticize it. Power has many faces. The neoliberalists try to hide theirs by claiming that neoliberalism does not exist. […]
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber – Reading Group Part 2
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor. Here is a draft of the materials of the collective textbook on David Graeber’s book Debt 5000 years. If you want to add something, ask questions or comment You are welcome! Here is .pdf of zoom-chat.
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber – Reading Group Part 3
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor. We will be discussing chapters 3 and 4 this week. Here is a draft of the materials of the collective textbook on David Graeber’s book Debt 5000 years. If you want to add something, ask questions or comment You are welcome! Here is .pdf of zoom-chat.
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber – Reading Group Part 4
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor. We will be discussing chapters 5 and 6 this week. Here is a draft of the materials of the collective textbook on David Graeber’s book Debt 5000 years. If you want to add something, ask questions or comment You are welcome! Here is .pdf of zoom-chat.
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber – Reading Group Part 5
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor. We’ve discussed chapter 6. Here is a draft of the materials of the collective textbook on David Graeber’s book Debt 5000 years. If you want to add something, ask questions or comment You are welcome! There is a record of the meeting below and link for .pdf of zoom-chat
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber – Reading Group Part 6
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor. We’ve discussed chapter 7. Here is a draft of the materials of the collective textbook on David Graeber’s book Debt 5000 years. If you want to add something, ask questions or comment You are welcome! There is a record of the meeting below and link for .pdf of zoom-chat
Museums of Care (01)
(Initial Stage: Trial and Error) First there was #Carnival4David. After the Carnival4David, Nika convened people to talk about the next steps: to try to put into practice one of the imaginary projects of David and hers, which they described in several essays and called “The Museum of Care.” In an attempt to repeat the same […]
The State We’re In (Part 1): What is the State?
Across the world people often try to use the powers they have been granted by the state to bring about social change. And sometimes they strive to go beyond the state to create autonomous enclaves. In this session facilitated by Corinna Lotz, Paul Feldman will discuss what is the contemporary state. A brief summary of some of David Graeber’s […]
14 October, 2021 – Karaoke Reading Group #MuseumofCare text by David Graeber, Facilitation by Vassily
a karaoke reading group MuseumofCare continues to experiment with online tools for collaboration. During the year of the Museum of Care’s reading group, we have tried different formats: from continuous work on a series of texts, when ideas gradually develop and grow – a small group of participants is more fitting for this, to public […]
First MASTODON ASSEMBLY
Today is scheduled MASTODON ASSEMBLYhttps://museum.care/events/mastodon-assembly/ Please, come! This is probably the most important collective project since the beginning of the Museum of Care. When the David Graeber Institute set up the server, there was a real exodus of users from Twitter. The new owner, Elon Mask, radically and senselessly has been changing the rules. Now […]
Critique of Violence
Walter Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence” is a seminal text that in just a few steps dismantles the very idea that any form of legitimate violence can exist, or that means can be separated from ends so that a just end can make a wrong means just. For that alone, this would be a great text, […]
DAVID GRAEBER’s DISCUSSION: “How to change the course of human history”
ANTIUNIVERSITY NOW x ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR 2021 A discussion of How to change the course of human history, which was the basis for David Graeber and David Wengrow’s book, is due out in October 2021. MON 06.09.21 20:00 – 22:00 The writings of anarchist and anthropologist David Graeber have broken open new ways to think about […]
Mastodon Assembly
Unlike other Mastodon servers, my idea is to try to leave the rules as open as possible and have ongoing discussions about them. I see our Mastodon server as an online laboratory for creating and recreating social relationships. We invite everyone to join us for this discussion. We hope it will lead to ongoing conversation, […]
Ocean Rebellion’s Statement for the APTART exhibition on Carnival and War
War on Fish Since 2021 Ocean Rebellion has been drawing attention to humanity’s war on fish. Since World War II fishing fleets have been using technologies developed for warfare to catch fish. This war on fish is crashing fish populations all over the world. It is causing the displacement of communities and starvation. Much of the fish caught […]
What is the Collective Documentary “How to Make Decisions?”
This project is a research of the decision-making process that people practice in different cultures, age groups, historical times, and social situations. We collect interviews from a number of different people: a London policeman and co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, anthropologists working in traditional communities, and autonomous movement activists. We publish the interviews online and distribute […]
An Artist as a Programmer of an Open-Source Software
Today, the ideal artist is considered a genius who, alone or in a group, creates a social structure in which other people must live.However, it seems to me that in such a case it is not so much a question of being an artist as it is of developing political technologies that fall on the […]
What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?
8 April, 2021 David Graeber What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun? Facilitator for this session: Elizabeth Travelslight, Nika Dubrovsky, Rain Forest. and here is our chat 00:04:23 Ellen Judd: Very happy to discover this article, which I have read as uplifting and joyful. But the move to Thursday has had me double-booked this […]
Call for the first Visual Assembly on 24th of June
The first Assembly in collaboration with the Museum of Care is scheduled to take place on Thursday 24th of June. It will be an informal meeting and an opportunity to meet with people and realities from different geopolitical contexts, all of which are addressing similar urgencies and share an interest in alternative pedagogies, new forms […]
Notes: 20.11.2020 Assembly
Updates: An extra note: Pauline Olivieros was mentioned – a musician who writes things that can be participated in by non musicians… how could the residencies help us to make music? NEXT FRIDAY: Instead of meeting, we’ll visit London School of Economics’ reading group on David’s “Direct Action: an Ethnography”: https://www.facebook.com/events/370025947395718/ Then our next meet […]
Sister Projects
“The production/consumption paradigm is a guarantee for ultimately destroying the planet and each other. We need to break away from that paradigm entirely. Care and freedom, on the other hand, are things you can increase as much as you like without damaging anything. So we need to think, what are ways that we need to care for […]
Repair Kit for Tax Loopholes
The neoliberals believe that the biggest threat to the free market is tax. Every year, this drives thousands of tax evaders to desperate measures. Some flee their homes in hopes of finding a safe place for their cherished possessions. Others hire expensive help from tax lawyers to get advice on the tricky tax regulations. Repair […]
What is anthropology?
This room was set up to host discussions of what anthropology is and how it changed over time, to publish David’s lectures, and to have discussions and panels. We all know that David Graeber was very critical of contemporary academia. David and I have been talking about how if his book “Dawn of everything” turned […]
Newsletter May 2023
DAVID GRAEBER INSTITUTE UPDATE The David Graeber Institute begins its work by arranging talks on David Graeber’s latest book, Pirate Enlightenment, and developing the Brain Trust project. Both projects will begin in September. If you wish to stay up-to-date on the developments from the David Graeber Institute, consider subscribing to its Riseup mailing list. In […]
Playgrounds: abstract VS figurative.
Excellent photos of “non-themed playgrounds” by Simone Pierini. I completely agree with him that the divide in our lives (both adult and child) lies between the concepts of free play and rule-based play. My favorite playgrounds are the “abstract” ones because, unlike the “figurative” ones, they allow you to unhinge pre-game hierarchy dynamics. If a child […]
Masks and Updates 2023
At our Assembly of Tools of Care, we hope to think together about: This room also plans to collect invented stories of identities. All identities are human-made, so let’s treat them with creative enthusiasm. We will talk about this during one of the panel “Pirate Enlightenment” dedicated to David Graeber’s book. This panel will be […]
The State We’re In (Part 2): Social Progress in Chile With or Without the State?
Across the world people often try to use the powers they have been granted by the state to bring about social change. And sometimes they strive to go beyond the state to create autonomous enclaves. In this session, facilitated by Fiona Harrington, Fernando Quintana will discuss recent attempts to replace the Chilean constitution, originally imposed during the 1973 military […]
Corinna Lotz and Kyrill Potapov
Kyrill Potapov is an organiser at the International Friends of Ilyenkov. He is a researcher in Human-Computer Interaction at University College London with an interest in social practice, agency and learning. Corinna Lotz co-founded International Friends of Ilyenkov and wrote Finding Evald Ilyenkov: how a Soviet philosopher who stood up for dialectics continues to inspire. She helps organise the […]
The Great Debt Debate Q&A
The First Fight between Michael Hudson and Thomas Piketty about thenature of Debt was held on the 10th anniversary of the edition of DavidGraeber’s 5000 Years of Debt. Michael Hudson and Thomas Piketty were seeking answers to the burning questions of our time. The fight had so many rounds that we didn’t have time to […]
Original plan for Visual Assembly in Madrid
As part of the IRI’s projects of the Zapatista Forum, the David Graeber foundation, the Museum of Care, the IAFS VA Lab and the Church of Stop Shopping are organizing a Visual Assembly.
A Visual Assembly is a public art project combining street theatre, painting, and a virtual assembly of people worldwide.
AptArt around the World: Celebrating the launch of the David Graeber Institute.
At 19:00hrs (London time), October 29, 2022, the David Graeber Institute opened with its inaugural Apartment Art Exhibition APT / ART – CLIMATE EMERGENCY at 52 Boundary Rd, London NW8 0HJ (Rowley Way) simultaneously with parallel exhibitions taking place all over the world. The David Graeber Institute opens two years after the death of David […]
Intergalactic Memorial Carnival for David Graeber
“We will remain faceless because we refuse the spectacle of celebrity, because we are everyone, because the carnival beckons, because the world is upside down, because we are everywhere. By wearing masks, we show that who we are is not as important as what we want, and what we want is everything for everyone.” David […]
Preparation for the war exhibition
I received a print run of the posters for The Wars of the Past and the Wars of the Future exhibition with quotes from W. Churchill, E. V. Debs, C. Zetkin, K. Liebknecht, H. G. Wells, and many others. Here’s what they look like. We invite you to download the posters you find interesting from […]
‘There Never Was a West’, Part 1, by David Graeber
Our next reading group will be David Graeber’s text ‘There Never Was a West: Or, Democracy Emerges from the Spaces in Between.’ This week we will start with the first 9 pages (p. 329-337), in which David offers a crushing and original critique of Huntington’s theses. Also, we welcome presentations on any aspect of this […]
‘There Never Was a West’, Part 2 and 3, by David Graeber
We are combining Part 2 and Part 3 of our reading group of David Graeber’s text ‘There Never Was a West: Or, Democracy Emerges from the Spaces in Between.’ We continue from p. 337 to 355 or from the Parenthetical note until Traditions as Acts of Endless Refoundation. We welcome presentations on any aspect of […]
‘There Never Was a West’, Part 4, by David Graeber
For this fourth edition of our reading group of David Graeber’s text ‘There Never Was a West: Or, Democracy Emerges from the Spaces in Between.’ we continue from p. 355-362 or from Traditions as Acts of Endless Refoundation until Part V. We welcome presentations on any aspect of this text, be it 1 minute or 10 minutes. […]
‘THERE NEVER WAS A WEST’, PART 5, BY DAVID GRAEBER
For this fifth and final edition of our reading group of David Graeber’s text ‘There Never Was a West: Or, Democracy Emerges from the Spaces in Between.’ we continue from p. 362-368 or from Part V to end. We welcome presentations on any aspect of this text, be it 1 minute or 10 minutes. Like a democratic university […]
Roy Bhaskar’s ‘Enlightened Common Sense’ and ‘From Science to Emancipation’ – Reading Group Part 3
“One of the most influential voices in the philosophy of science and a political revolutionary”David Graeber That meeting we’ve discussed chapter 3 (first part) of Enlightened Common Sense. The recording of this meeting has been archived. You can see the saved zoom-chat here.
Between Fascism and Communism: The Aestheticization of Politics and the Politicization of Art
This is a follow-up of the reading group on Walter Benjamin’s text The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. We ran out of time to read Timothy O’Leary’s text Fat, Felt and Fascism: The Case of Joseph Beuys. This discussion will include the essay by Boris Groys On art activism, which makes […]
The Virtues of Diogenes, Part 2: Character Creation
In the second session, we will explore the world of Diogene’s philosophy by creatively comparing Diogenes Cynics with his contemporary Xenophon’s Cynegeticus. We will speculate on both these dog-associated philosophies and imagine what they might tell us about the worlds and the ecologies they imply. We will be supported in this by anthropologist Avi KBH, […]
The Virtues of Diogenes, Part 3: The Quest for Graeber’s Golden Waistcoat
Building on the first two sessions, in this third session we will review what we have learnt about the world of Diogene’s philosophy, why it was rated by Graeber and focus on what it means for how we navigate theory and practice. For Diogene’s Cynics and later the Stoics, the mythical manifestation of how to […]
Dead Zones of the Imagination
13th November 2020 For our first reading group, we discussed David Graeber’s essay “Dead Zones of the Imagination.” “To care about someone is to imagine the perspectives of that person.“ David Graeber This is the definition adopted by David Graeber in that essay and the feminist standpoint theorists (e.g. Harding, 2004) before him, and it […]
Follow-up on the previous Assembly “What is War?”
Dear friends and followers of the Farocki/Graeber project,I am happy to invite you to our 4th Assembly. This time, the main theme of the Assembly will be “War – Labor – Slavery”.When: April 27, 2022 08:00 PM London / 09:00 PM Berlin Preliminary program and materials:Part 1Follow-up on the previous Assembly “What is War?” (10-15 […]
Gifts
David’s Contribution Yash’s Contribution Amy’s Contribution “The future is not certain, but it is possible.” — Howard Zin Desne’s Contribution Alex’s Contribution Anca’s Contribution
Past reading groups
Some ideas for our future reading groups: Here is our Library of Care.
There Never Was a West
Our June and July 2022 reading group of David Graeber’s text ‘There Never Was a West: Or, Democracy Emerges from the Spaces in Between.’ Please refer to the links below to access all the events that form this reading group. This reading group is facilitated by Vassily Pigounides and Simona Ferlini. Part 1 Part 2 and […]
Notes: 11.12.2020 Assembly
It turned out to be an infinitely long Friday night. We had two Assemblies, one after another (first Residency, then General). Someone (John?) has suggested moving the Assembly from Friday night to another day of the week, so sometimes we can have a drink with other friends in the real world whenever the Lockdown is […]
In a conversation with Ade Ahmad Suja’i from Jatiwangi Art Factory
Here is our first dialog. Lets us know what do you think! N&P Tell us about yourself, where do you live? Jai I’m Ahmad Sujai from Jatiwangi Art Factory, a project started in 2005. I’m the director of JaF from the 2021 till 2022 period. I live in Majalengka City. N&P So it’s already almost […]
22-01-2021 – Reading Group: The Democracy Project, Chapter 4
This week we will be discussing Chapter 4 (entitled ‘How Change Happens’) of The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement—a book that David Graeber actually wanted to title ‘As If We Were Already Free’ but wasn’t free to do so.https://docs.google.com/…/1bVZITmhfA65olE…/edit.. We will only be focusing on the first twenty pages of this chapter […]
Invitation to EDUCATION AND (ANTI)INSTITUTIONS – SECOND ASSEMBLY
The second assembly is scheduled to take place on Thursday 29 July at 19:00 CEST (6pm London time) on Zoom. It will be an informal meeting and an opportunity to establish a more dynamic debate with our guests with a focus on Education and (Anti)Institutions, and the aim to gather a multiplicity of voices and practices. What relations can develop between educational […]
The Mockery-cracker
The mockery-cracker is a Trojan horse of laughter that allows you to smuggle cheerful, empowering or revolutionary criticism against power deep into the most festive salons and up to the highest peaks of power. Take the sting out of power with laugh-out-loud quotes or self-written jokes – the choice is yours. Introduction Laughter can be […]
Casting kit for The Imprint of The Invisible Hand of The Market
The idea of The invisible hand of the market originates from classical economic theory and is a story about a barely mentioned hand which has affected the world economy in a very large scale. It was supposed to transform chaos, competition and people’s selfishness into cooperation and order in an ingenious way – through price […]
Housing Tick Remover
The housing tick thrives and multiplies quickly in societies with unregulated housing markets. By speculating on the misery of others and the accelerating price increase in the housing market, the housing tick increases its wealth without adding anything of value to society. The Housing Tick Remover can be used as a miniature crowbar for squatting, […]
Welfare State Cut Cutter
Hardly any phenomenon annoys the neoliberals more than the welfare state. Most people in power – including those who are eager to cut social services – are well aware of what happened to the royal family and nobility during the French Revolution. Therefore, it is usually sufficient to take out this tiny, but razor-sharp, finger […]
Mindset Structures｜Playground without Walls
Here’s the paper model of our device. Maybe we will add a mirror-like structure to the physical version. Our thinking is a very magical thing. It exists in our minds, but it is both invisible and intangible. We often perceive it as free and expansive, but there are also boundaries and patterns to it. When […]
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Join our special Reading Group to mark the imminent launch of the David Graeber Institute, we will be reading what many consider to be David’s most seminal book. Debt: The First 5,000 Years is a book that eludes simple summary. It is an encyclopaedic journey through global history encompassing the stories of grand civilizations as […]
MATERIAL PHOTOGRAPHIES READING GROUP
The Material Photographies Reading Group meets regularly online to explore critical thinking/making around the photograph in its multiple forms and dynamic manifestations—to welcome new ways of thinking and celebrate the increasingly complex photosphere we inhabit. All are warmly invited to attend! Please find all the details below. As always, do get in touch for the Meeting link and […]
Notes: 16.10.2020 Assembly
Dear all, Below are a few notes from our chat last week. We concluded that it makes sense to create six working groups, which will report to the open assembly. The groups are: — feel free to contact Nika: dubrovsky@gmail.com Here’s David & Nika’s article: “The Museum of Care: Imagining the World After the Pandemic.” […]
Notes: 13.11.2020 Assembly
Updates from infrastructure: Updates on Residencies: Decision making and facilitation: Legal/organisational structure questions: SECOND HALF OF MEETING WAS HELD AS A READING GROUP – see info here https://davidgraeber.industries/reading-group
Cassie Thornton “Hologram.”
Reading group/Assembly 12-03-2021 We’re excited to have artist and activist Cassie Thornton talk to us about Hologram, “a feminist social health-care project that aims to provide accountability, attention and solidarity as a source of long term care.” You can read more about Hologram on her website (5 min read), or this 40-minute talk she gave last May as […]
UNEDUCATION: OPEN ASSEMBLY ZAGHREB
A Project in collaboration with Critical Studies Department Please join us on May 25th, 2022 at 7 PM CET for an open dialogue about The UNEDUCATION project, based on sharing and framing of pedagogical practices, together with Andris Brinkmanis, Nikola Bojić, Ana Dević, Nika Dubrovsky, Ivan Skvrce and Marko Tadic. We will be discussing questions […]
UNEDUCATION: OPEN ASSEMBLY MILAN, PART II: UNLEARNING
19:00 (CET – Italy, Croatia, Austria time ) A PROJECT IN COLLABORATION WITH CRITICAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT Please join us on June 30th, 2022 at 7 PM CET for Part II: UNLEARNING, an open dialogue about the UNEDUCATION project, based on sharing and framing of pedagogical practices. This talk will be the second episode of a […]
WHAT IS APTART? WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
First AptArt Exhibition. 1982. October-November. Nikita Alekseyev’s apartment. Moscow Art exhibitions in people’s own apartments were a tradition born in the Soviet Union when public cultural life was strictly regulated by the state. People opened their apartments – private spaces — for public events, exhibitions and concerts. As a reaction to state pressure, people re-imagined their […]
Nika Dubrovsky talks with Clive Russell and John Phillips about “50 Years of Protest Posters in the UK”. Part 1
John Phillips. The role of a poster or slogan is to say to whoever you’re opposing that you’re bigger or more powerful or stronger than someone who is incoherent or not so visible. I think they’re both polarizing and they’re uniting. Nika Dubrovsky. In other words, your understanding of what a poster is very similar […]
Other Theater Studies – L. S. Vygotsky’s Method
by Vadim Maximov What is the function of the critic in modern theater? Have the tasks of criticism changed since the beginning of the twentieth century? Since the time of the nineteenth century? The most profound modern critics believe that criticism expresses spectatorial perception (only more specifically expresses). It seems to me that spectatorial perception […]
Newsletter January 2023
DAVID GRAEBER INSTITUTE LAUNCH We just opened The David Graeber Institute (DGI), which will provide a platform for projects related to David Graeber’s legacy, developing his ideas and projects that will take on a life of their own, continuing and contributing to his work. The Institute will have only two projects: the David Graeber Archive […]
Newsletter October 2023
SELF IN THE WORLD: A CONVERSATION WITH KEITH HART Self in the World: Connecting Life’s Extremes, Berghahn Books, 2022 We embark on two life journeys—one out into the world, the other inward to the self. Society is mysterious to us because it dwells inside us, mostly inaccessible to thought. Writing brings the two into a […]
Nika Dubrovsky: Interview with John Phillips
John Phillips is an artist, designer, printmaker, curator of Museum of Unrest; based in UK and France. John Phillips: Tell me about the Museum of Care and how it came about. Nika Dubrovsky: The idea for a Museum of Care was originally discussed between me and my late husband, anthropologist, and activist David Graeber during […]
‘Visions of Sustainable Economies’ Book Club: The Dawn of Everything – Part 1
Chapters 1-4 (pp 1-163) February 17, 2022, 12:00 PM (Timezone: America/Chicago) Young Scholars Initiative Visions of Sustainable Economies – a Book Club Topic: The Dawn of Everything – Part 1 Time: February 17, 2022, 12:00 (Timezone: America/Chicago) Register to join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: here DESCRIPTION OF THIS PART OF THE SERIES […]
‘Visions of Sustainable Economies’ Book Club: The Dawn of Everything – Part 2
Chapters 5-8 (pg 164-327) Thursday March 3 at 12:00 PM (Timezone: America/Chicago) Young Scholars Initiative Visions of Sustainable Economies – a Book Club Topic: The Dawn of Everything – Part 2 Time: March 3, 2022, 12:00 (Timezone: America/Chicago) Register to join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: here DESCRIPTION OF THIS PART OF THE […]
‘Visions of Sustainable Economies’ Book Club: The Dawn of Everything – Part 3
Chapters 9-12 (pg 328-526) Thursday March 17 at 12:00 pm (Timezone: America/Chicago) Young Scholars Initiative Visions of Sustainable Economies – a Book Club Topic: The Dawn of Everything – Part 3 Time: March 17, 2022, 12:00 (Timezone: America/Chicago) Register to join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: here DESCRIPTION OF THIS PART OF THE […]
An open Assembly “tools of Care”
Presentations took place in the new rooms at the housekeeping committee on Jan. 25 (see video of presentations here). In each case, the question arose: which is the best way to communicate with the public? How can we facilitate open collective dialogue and get people involved in the projects? During the housekeeping committee, innovations in […]
Pedagogies of Care, part 2
Militant Care. Pedagogies in action. A conversation with Contrafilé Group The second meeting of Pedagogies of Care project will host a conversation between Brazil based artists and activists Contrafilé Group (currently, Cibele Lucena, Joana Zatz Mussi, and Rafael Leona), Andris Brinkmanis, senior lecturer and the course Leader of BA in Painting and Visual Arts at NABA in […]
Pedagogies of Care, part 3
The third encounter of ‘Pedagogies of Care’ series will host artists and activists Mariette Schiltz and Edna Gee, both closely linked with ‘Isola Art Center’ and Isola Pepe Verde projects in Milan, Italy. ‘Isola Art Center’ was a free experimental and dynamic platform that combined internationally acclaimed contemporary art, emerging young art, and theoretical research with […]
Museum of Care
The need to create what we call rooms — educational and cultural spaces of care — was discussed by David Graeber and Nika Dubrovsky during the pandemic. The Museum of Care appeared after David’s tragic death in 2020 as a tribute to his legacy. Everything here is free, and everyone is welcome. Room is one […]
Where did it come from?
Project was started by Anca Dimofte and Nika Dubrovsky, but now anyone can take it and make it their own! It was born out of the Decision Making working Group and out of our rather productive Discord between some members of the MoC. One day, Anca Dimofte and Nika Dubrovsky asked themselves: is it possible […]
The Tyranny of Structurelessness
Letter from Scott Thompson to the community of Museum of Care: Hello everyone, I have to admit I haven’t contributed to the Museum of Care as much as I could have or should have done. This sort of thing doesn’t come naturally to me – I’m certainly not a “core activist” with ambitions of “public […]
Museum of Care Rules
As an open-source project, the Museum of Care will be happy to see many versions of Care spread around the world. We should try it out, discuss it and develop it. That’s why we made this Museum. If you don’t feel comfortable in our Museum for (any) reason, you can just create your own Museum. […]
Thank you all!
23-04-2021 Since the Museum of Care was my major project for the last six months, but even more, it was the place of refuge in my rather difficult psychological situation I want to thank everyone who helped me get through these times. Every week for the last months, I have had an amazing group of […]
Press realize EDUCATION AND (ANTI)INSTITUTIONS.
EDUCATION AND (ANTI) INSTITUTIONS MAP. Open Call PLEASE TELL US ABOUT YOUR PROJECT OR SUGGEST INITIATIVES YOU RETAIN RELEVANT Critical Studies Department is grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the process of curating the Museum of Care for the next two or three months. We would really love it to be a transformative and […]
WHAT IS A JOB?
curated by Nika Dubrovsky Just started a discussion on how to make a school workbook “What’s Job?”, with a catalog of Bullshits and Care Jobs, and free space for kids’ comments. This was then I got an email from a teacher up in Manchester Steve Russell who is already teaching it. The notebook will have […]
Sitting mat for direct actions
Whether you meet others or choose to do it alone, you can at any time take out the seating mat, unfold it somewhere where you want to sit down in a silent protest against neoliberalism to make the consequences of this ideology visible. By improving the comfort of sitting down, you can extend the action […]
Seeds
All over the world large companies are racing to get hold of legal rights to natural resources through intricate patent legislation, which makes it a criminal offense for others to, for example, collect rainwater or use their own plant seeds. Join the seed action: Sow, collect, spread and share these or other Rescue seeds. Introduction […]
Mini spray for mini actions
How can one speak out about destruction of nature and social injustice when expressing oneself in the public space is reserved for those who can afford advertising space, while other expressions are considered criminal littering? With the Minispray, you can leave remarkable, witty and subtle signs of expression or precise critique of power in public […]
Mindfulness against neoliberalism
Have you felt powerless, angry or sad about everything that is happening in the world? Are you worried about the climate crisis, an insecure working life or growing inequality? Do you think that it can relate to the rise of neoliberalism? Do you want to do something but don’t know where to start? Then we […]
Labour for Inheritance
As a society, we cannot allow able-bodied heirs to experience being put on the sidelines of the labour market already at a young age. The Nav(*)-certified initiative for work training and affiliation, Work for inheritance, aims to counteract this tendency and offers belonging, a sense of mastery, a meaningful everyday life and opportunities to become […]
Preparation of the Playground workshop in Saint Vincent and Grenadines
I’m currently preparing for a project in St. Vincent’s where we will be brainstorming ideas about playgrounds with the kids, hoping to come up with something that would exciting enough to come and build in November 2024. The general thoughts is to make a playground with local free materials like old car tires, earth, paint, […]
Reading Groups
HOW TO MAKE A READING GROUP We read and discuss David Graeber’s texts and related material. Please do feel free to get in touch if you are interested in presenting a particular text. All voices are welcome.
Translit
Founded in 2005, [Translit] is an independent small press publishing and a literary and theoretical journal presenting a community of artists, poets, philosophers and humanities scholars. By publishing poems, criticism, theoretical essays, and graphics, the Journal’s editorial board seeks to thematize various fields of confrontation in modern literary theory and literary process, addressing broad artistic, […]
The Dawn of Everything Reading Group: Chapter 5
Thank you everyone who came! I found several questions fascinating and worth exploring father. 1) Zinaida Vasilieva notion about “slavery as a technology of care / social death through care”here is about it in the 5th chapter: Hierarchy and property may derive fromnotions of the sacred, but the most brutal forms of exploitation havetheir origins in the most […]
A4kids workshop and public lecture
For: Children from 7 – 16 years old and parents accompanyingWhat: Workshop and lecture ANTHROPOLOGY FOR KIDS IS A SERIES OF BOOKS, WORKSHOPS AND CONVERSATIONS EACH FULL OF PICTURES AND STORIES ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A HUMAN. During her art talk, Nika will explain why A4kids was an important project for her late […]
Roy Bhaskar’s ‘Enlightened Common Sense’ and ‘From Science to Emancipation’ – Reading Group Part 1
“One of the most influential voices in the philosophy of science and a political revolutionary”David Graeber This inaugural meeting of the Roy Bhaskar reading group will introduce both these books and discuss the form this reading group will take over the coming weeks For this session we will be discussing the first chapter of “Enlightened […]
Mastodon Assembly 26.07.23
The third meeting of our ongoing discussion about our Mastodon server at graeber.social and ways to develop it. Agenda
Vygotsky, Play, and Experience
Kyrill Potapov will give a short intro to the thought of Vygotsky and we will discuss “On the Problem of the Psychology of the Actor’s Creative Work.“ In this short text, Lev Vygotsky explores the relationship between the experience of an actor and an audience, their social context and action we see on stage. The text […]
The Dawn of Everything Reading Group: Chapter 1
The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision and faith in the power of direct action. Possible discussion questions: Chapter 11. The two […]
Discussion Circles: Technology as a Social Relationship
The institute’s mission is to explore how technology can help create a system where essential resources—like food, education, energy, and medicine—can be produced and distributed freely. That is, the DGI in St. Vincent seeks to support the production of intellectually intensive, not labour-intensive technology. We are looking for technologies, traditional and cutting-edge, that are centred on […]
Notes: 06.11.2020 Assembly
Development of infrastructure update: The earth is a museum of humanity, traveling through the universe. —Nikolai Fyodorov Definition of MoC is still in the process of discussion. We are working on this by defining the practicalities of specific projects, from residences to the construction of the website. Press update: Residencies-group update: The discussion is ongoing, […]
Notes: 04.12.2020 Assembly
We’re looking forward to seeing you at MoC assembly later today, from 8pm-9pm GMT. Here’s how to join, and what we have on the agenda: HOW TO JOIN: AGENDA: Please let us know if you have any questions about the agenda, or if there’s any more info you’d like to know. We’ll see you later […]
Notes: 05.03.2021 Assembly on Communism
5 March, 2021 – ‘Communism’ (available here) Facilitator(s) for this session: Yash Lad and Steve Bachelor. This essay is a great continuation from our discussion about modes of production from the last reading group. In it, David does a few things: By doing so, David also shines light on how Communism and communism relate to […]
EDUCATION AND (ANTI)INSTITUTIONS – Second Assembly
On Thursday 29 July we organized a second Zoom meeting with people and realities from different geopolitical contexts, trying to create the space for a dynamic debate with our guests and with the aim to gather a multiplicity of voices and practices, starting from some important questions while new ones emerged during the discussion. What […]
Letter from CSD about EDUCATION AND (ANTI)INSTITUTIONS – Second Assembly
Dear everyone, Thank you for attending the second assembly curated by the Critical Studies Department for the Museum of Care.It was really an infinite pleasure to share with you our project about Education and (Anti)Institutions and listen to so many initiatives, so passionate, so urgent, so revolutionary and transformative. On Thursday 29 July we organized […]
FIGHT CLUB: David Graeber Vs Thomas Hobbes / Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Direct from ringside, live and online.
May 29, 17:00 Berlin time, live at HKW Berlin and online Facilitators Jamie Kelsey Fry and Savitri D and the entire Fight Club project team invite you to join a People’s Assembly. The People’s Assembly will open for participation after you’ve watched a live fight between Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Graeber. The Assembly […]
FIGHT CLUB: David Graeber vs Thomas Hobbes / Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Performance with Nika Dubrovsky, Jamie Kelsey-Fry, Savitri D. and Jacques Servin Before the honorable public, David Graeber confronts Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau to resolve one of the most important questions of our time: Why is our society built around the ideas of Hobbes and Rousseau, even though most people do not know who these […]
How to Join In
How to participate in the Brain Trust open-source dinners: 1. Check out our lists of dinner ingredients and instructions from our chef. 2. Form a community by inviting your friends, family, and strangers to join us, because the goal of our project is to create interested communities of mutual support; (here’s a proposed list – […]
Events hosted by the “Another Art World: reading group and discussion” room
We’ve already hosted:
How to make decisions: Collective Documentary
curated by Anca Dimofte and Nika Dubrovsky “What I especially want to stress here though is that, when value is about the production of people, it is always entirely implicated in processes of transformation: families are created, grow and break apart; people are born, mature, reproduce, grow old and die. They are constantly being socialized, […]
Anthropology for teens/What is education?
With the support of the Museum of Care, the David Graeber Institute, and the SSD of the University of Milan, we are starting a series of lectures and workshops dedicated to education. Today’s schooling system tends to treat children and young people as mere customers. Since the early age, technical accumulation of knowledge, development of […]
Farocki Graeber Residencies Program
curated by Antje Ehmann and Nika Dubrovsky This project began with a private lunch at Antje Ehmann’s home.Nika and Anti decided that David and Harun’s work, who did not know each other in life, would enrich and develop each other in an exchange of content, experiences, friends and followers. We have Assemblies, Discussions, Residencies, and […]
Collectivity
At the Museum of Care, we often ask questions and look for answers. This room discusses different forms of collectivity. This room is a room for conversation. It overlaps with and complements the “Collective Decision Making” room, which explores the mechanisms of how people agree or disagree and how we can reach consent (and can we?). […]
Simona Ferlini
Simona Ferlini is a political philosopher and public servant of the health care system, a mother and a cook, a real Italian and a real friend. Among other duties, she is an active member of the Reading Group and the Documentary ‘Decision Making.’ She will take care of cooking and nurturing, of room temperature, and of […]
Pirate Enlightenment Discussion at Brooklyn Public Library
Virginia Heffernan, Edward Ongweso, Jr., Gideon Lewis-Kraus, and Andrew Ross discuss David Graeber’s Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia, the final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything. Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and radical visions of freedom. But at the root […]
Newsletter December 2023
Dear all,Welcome to our newsletter!We have had a lot of exciting developments over the past month and we would like to share some of them with you, as well as let you know what’s coming up in December. Material Photographies Reading Group December 6, 12:30 (London time)The Material Photographies Reading Group meets regularly online to explore critical thinking/making around the […]
‘Lifelong Self-Learning and Modern Education,’ with Keith Hart
The lecture will take place on Thursday 28th April at 6pm (London time) and will be entitled ‘Lifelong self-learning and modern education.’ It summarises the philosophy of education that motivates Keith Hart’s new book, Self in the World: Connecting Life’s Extremes. (An hour-long podcast there is interesting. There is a 25% reduction (£18) on the 314-page paperback with […]
Pirate Enlightenment: Ayça Çubukçu, Owen Jones & James Butler
We all know the European Enlightenment started in Geneva, or maybe Edinburgh or maybe Amsterdam. Well we’re all wrong. In Pirate Enlightenment (Allen Lane), anthropologist David Graeber presents a case for the intellectual underpinnings for the Enlightenment having started with the anarchic, mixed-race and radically egalitarian communities of pirates based around Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Sadly, […]
Rooms
“We need to see the value in the sort of labor we would only really want humans to do.” David Graeber The main goal of the Museum of Care is to produce and maintain social relationships. We are here to help, share, and be together. New rooms, new curators, and new visitors are always welcome.
Assembly Agendas & Notes
Why do animals play? Well, why shouldn’t they? The real question is: Why does the existence of action carried out for the sheer pleasure of acting, the exertion of powers for the sheer pleasure of exerting them, strike us as mysterious? What does it tell us about ourselves that we instinctively assume that it is? […]
Openness vs Closeness, as Play vs Game.
discussion about mailing list and the house keeping commetee.
Stephen Snelders, author of the The Devil’s Anarchy
17 June, 2021 – Stephen Snelders, author of the The Devil’s Anarchy (available here). We’re continuing our series of lectures and discussion with Dutch historian Stephen Snelders, who’s going to introduce his work on pirates. There are three texts on the reading list for this session, which can be found here. Stephen Snelders is a historian of drugs, colonial medicines, […]
Sand in the maschinery
A small tuft can topple a big load, and it doesn’t necessarily take large amounts of sand to make a huge piece of machinery stop – just a single grain of sand is enough. Use the sand in a real, ritual or conceptual way to put spokes in the wheels of the neoliberalism’s power apparatus. […]
Notes: Assembly 27-09
Notes from Meeting MR took notes Mark noted that there were several channels of communication and it was easy for things to get lost. Nika gave update on soon coming improvements to website – one platform log-in for all the DGI social media to send out publicity (Alecia who is paid to help out by […]
Carnival 2023 in preparation
We’re getting ready for the Pirate Carnival on Saturday, September 16, at the Alexandra and Ainsworth Estate–also known as ‘Rowley Way.’ Lately, I’ve been thinking about how Carnivals4David has evolved over the last few years. There have been three of them so far. This one is the fourth. Despite huge enthusiasm and over 200 locations […]
Carnival – Another Map for Contemporary Art
We’re getting ready for the Pirate Carnival on Saturday, September 16, at the Alexandra and Ainsworth Estate – also known as ‘Rowley Way.’ Lately, I’ve been thinking about how Carnivals4David has evolved over the last few years. There have been three of them so far. This one is the fourth. Despite huge enthusiasm and over […]
Events
Past events – Rojava Video Commune Screening with Debbie Bukchin, April 12 – A Talk on Ewald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov “Personality and collective”, April 27 These are the future events, that would be great to have here: – Batka Makhno’s anarchist army in Ukraine fought both the Whites and the Reds. What was his take on […]
Fight Club collection
Here are videos of public clashes that I found in the media. It does not mean that I agree with any of this people. Fight Club is looking for stuff to disagree rather than agree with, but could it be that theatricalisation of the discussion itself, would makes us to deal more peacefully with each […]
Newsletter May 2024
Dear all, This spring letter will be short! From now on we will limit this newsletter to special occasions and projects only. Are you a room curator with such a special project in mind? Anyone who has a project in MoC can send out her and his own newsletter: just send an email to museum-of-care@lists.riseup.net. […]
Museum of Care as the Ministry of Defense
curator: Nika Dubrovsky, the room is open for copying and suggestions to collaborate. It seemed to be impudent and disgusting that the worst bloody institutions worldwide are called Defense Ministries for some reason. None of them defended anyone but planned and executed endless attacks and destruction. In my Soviet childhood, we used to call the […]
Brain Trust
curated by Nika Dubrovsky Brain Trust: a network of local projects cooperating on specific political and technological solutions from play agriculture to 3D printing, from local energy production to independent education. David Graeber was involved in creating the Brian Trust in the last year of his life at the suggestion of the founding members of […]