Archived Rooms

The David Graeber Institute is re-imagining an abandoned ship as an anti-colonial Museum of Care in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

The artworks created by 14 artists from different parts of the world inspired by the essays collected in the book "The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World…".

Who makes decisions? What is consensus? What is direct democracy? And what can be brought to general discussion and what should remain private? Where is the line between a large collective and small groups of friends, circles, or private people?

this room is dedicated to discuss the status of education, its relation to institutions, and their response to different types of pressures.

‘Existing history is not just deeply flawed and Eurocentric, it's also unnecessarily tedious and boring’. PIRATE ENLIGHTENMENT, David Graeber

A series of multidisciplinary encounters devoted to the themes of care and caring

In this room, we discuss David's ideas about value and fetishism as social creativity.

Why should we care about time? Are time at work and time off still the same time? How does time shape how we live, speak and perceive the world? How does it feel to have no future? And what about being stuck in the past? The room explores these questions by drawing on late socialist experiences.

The reading group of David Graeber’s text ‘There Never Was a West: Or, Democracy Emerges from the Spaces in Between.’ 

A presentation of the latest issues of the [Translit] journal.

In this room we discuss 'The dawn of everything: A New History of Humanity'

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?).

Neoliberalism strikes when you least expect it. It is therefore important to have a first aid kit with a little more content than just plasters for the wound. First aid kit against neoliberalism v. 2.0 is amply supplied with everything you need when neoliberalism strikes.

As a follow-up to our reading group on Graeber’s “Debt” we will read Hudson’s “The Collapse of Antiquity” as of September 2023.

This group emerged from the events, discussions, dialogues that took place around a series of essays written by David Graeber and Nika Dubrovsky.

The David Greaber Institute‘s Mastodon server is up and running at graeber.social.

David’s friends are gathering to celebrate his birthday.

Is your job killing you? Do you feel the crush of spiritual violence when at work? Are you a duct-taper, box-ticker, taskmaster, flunky, or goon? We’ve got the place for you. Join us. Bullshit Jobs: A Reading Group, where your humanity will be restored.

A three-part series exploring the societal implications of interpersonal relations through the character of Diogenes and a merry band of legends.

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. 

Waters are a commons. They are also a common matter and topic, widely and variously discussed in different fields and with different perspectives, aims and methodologies. This room, curated by Paola Pietronave and Arianna Sollazzo, is a space for their many forms, declinations and aspects.

How might a reconfigured conservation cross pollinate and inform experimental and collaborative practices dedicated to nurturing and maintaining alternative material/social relations? A museum without objects!

We are organising, under the patronage of Museum of Care and the David Graeber Institute, a series of public lectures on the philosophical foundations of the work of David Graeber, whose death in September 2020 was an enormous shock and left a void in anthropology and far beyond the discipline.

Nika posted about David's funny arrangements of things, I replied that I have on my desk 3 Polish fish-shaped ceramic dishes that were to be a gift for him. Nika suggested a new room, “presents for David”.