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Reading Group: Mikhail Bakhtin’s book Rabelais. Session 8
This is our long-awaited reading group on David Graeber’s favorite Mikhail Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World. These meetings are limited in number. The group is meeting 12 times during 2024/25, on the last Thursday of each month. Please follow these steps to subscribe to our mailing list:
Reading Group: Mikhail Bakhtin’s book Rabelais. Session 7
This is our long-awaited reading group on David Graeber’s favorite Mikhail Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World. These meetings are limited in number. The group is meeting 12 times during 2024/25, on the last Thursday of each month. Please follow these steps to subscribe to our mailing list:
The opening conference of Islands in the future in St Vincent
Join us on April 8-15, 2025, to participate in a conference Islands in the future designed around ideas of the late anthropologist and activist David Graeber’s: ‘How can we build an international infrastructure of solidarity and care in the face of impending climate and political breakdown?’ Focused on exploring climate change in connection with social […]
What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun? / Steven Shaviro
On April 3rd, we host a Zoom meeting to discuss David Graeber’s work. The meeting will be about David Graeber’s essay “What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?” Professor Steven Shaviro will give the talk and it will be followed by a discussion from the audience. Steven Shaviro is Emeritus Professor of English at Wayne State […]
Reading Group: Mikhail Bakhtin’s book Rabelais. Session 6
This is our long-awaited reading group on David Graeber’s favorite Mikhail Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World. These meetings are limited in number. The group is meeting 12 times during 2024/25, on the last Thursday of each month. Please follow these steps to subscribe to our mailing list:
Democracy In Ancient Greece - Mirko Canevaro
We are holding a Zoom meeting to discuss David Graeber’s work with Mirko Canevaro who is the Professor of Greek History at the University of Edinburgh. The meeting will be related to David Graeber’s work: There Never Was A West, with a focus on the myths surrounding Democracy in Ancient Greece. We previously held in […]
Finance Is Just Another Word for Other People’s Debts / Steve Keen
We are holding a Zoom meeting to discuss David Graeber’s work with the economist and professor Steve Keen. The focus will be David Graeber’s work: Finance Is Just Another Word for Other People’s Debts. This piece was originally published in 2014 in which David Graeber wrote about Finance Capitalism and how it evolves around the […]
Reading Group: Mikhail Bakhtin’s book Rabelais. Session 5
This is our long-awaited reading group on David Graeber’s favorite Mikhail Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World. These meetings are limited in number. The group is meeting 12 times during 2024/25, on the last Thursday of each month. Please follow these steps to subscribe to our mailing list:
Pilot Visual Assembly in Amsterdam
Where: Amsterdam, OBA OosterdokLanguages: Dutch, English9+ (parents & other siblings welcome!) Artist and writer Nika Dubrovsky invites children aged 9 to 12 to join a Visual Assembly to collectively imagine, draw the map, and describe the rules of life in a City of the Future. Together, we will imagine and draw a map of the […]
Cities Made Differently: A Visual Assembly
On February 12th, David Graeber’s birthday, Nika Dubrovssky will facilitate a Visual Assembly at MayDay Space in Bushwick, NYC. This Assembly will be a continuation of the gathering held at the Interference Archive in November 2024. This time, we will not start from scratch but build upon the work already created—filled with the thoughts and […]
Reading Group: Mikhail Bakhtin’s book Rabelais. Session 4.
This is our long-awaited reading group on David Graeber’s favorite Mikhail Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World. We will discuss Chapter Two: The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais. These meetings are limited in number. The group is meeting 12 times during 2024/25, on the last Thursday of each month. Please follow these steps to subscribe to […]
Against Economics / Michael Hudson
Zoom meeting with the economist Michael Hudson to discuss David Graeber’s work. On January 9th, we will hold a Zoom meeting about the essay, Against Economics! The economist Michael Hudson will give a talk discussing Neo-Liberalism, modern Capitalism, and austerity in relation to David Graeber’s essay ‘Against Economics.’ Hudson is a renowned American economist and […]
Reading Group: Mikhail Bakhtin’s book Rabelais. Session 3.
This is our long-awaited reading group on David Graeber’s favorite Mikhail Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World. We will discuss chapter One: Rabelais in the History of Laughter:on mediaeval humour: pp. 96-103; on obscenity: pp.109-110; Rabelais and revolution: p. 119; on seriousness: pp. 122-124; on the belly: pp. 126-127; on the historicity of jokes: pp. 134-136; Rabelais’s […]
BOOK LAUNCH: ‘Cities Made Differently’ by DAVID GRAEBER & NIKA DUBROVSKY
Nika Dubrovsky will be at Housmans on December 6th to celebrate the publication of a marvelous new text, co-written with the late David Graeber, called Cities Made Differently. Joining Nika in conversation will the inimitable organiser and writer James Schneider. Full of playful graphics, provocative questions, and curious facts, this book asks what makes a city and how we […]
"There Was Never a West": Greg Yudin in conversation with Mirko Canevaro
The third discussion of Graeber’s essay “There Never Was a West”: A conversation between Greg Yudin and Mirko Canevaro, in the frame of “The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World…”. The third meeting of “The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World…” reading group, the last one of 2024, will be a conversation between sociologist Greg Yudin and […]
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Reading Group: Mikhail Bakhtin’s book Rabelais. Session 4.
This is our long-awaited reading group on David Graeber’s favorite Mikhail Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World. We will discuss Chapter Two: The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais. These meetings are limited in number. The group is meeting 12 times during 2024/25, on the last Thursday of each month. Please follow these steps to subscribe to […]
Cities Made Differently: A Visual Assembly
On February 12th, David Graeber’s birthday, Nika Dubrovssky will facilitate a Visual Assembly at MayDay Space in Bushwick, NYC. This Assembly will be a continuation of the gathering held at the Interference Archive in November 2024. This time, we will not start from scratch but build upon the work already created—filled with the thoughts and […]
Pilot Visual Assembly in Amsterdam
Where: Amsterdam, OBA OosterdokLanguages: Dutch, English9+ (parents & other siblings welcome!) Artist and writer Nika Dubrovsky invites children aged 9 to 12 to join a Visual Assembly to collectively imagine, draw the map, and describe the rules of life in a City of the Future. Together, we will imagine and draw a map of the […]
Reading Group: Mikhail Bakhtin’s book Rabelais. Session 5
This is our long-awaited reading group on David Graeber’s favorite Mikhail Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World. These meetings are limited in number. The group is meeting 12 times during 2024/25, on the last Thursday of each month. Please follow these steps to subscribe to our mailing list:
Finance Is Just Another Word for Other People’s Debts / Steve Keen
We are holding a Zoom meeting to discuss David Graeber’s work with the economist and professor Steve Keen. The focus will be David Graeber’s work: Finance Is Just Another Word for Other People’s Debts. This piece was originally published in 2014 in which David Graeber wrote about Finance Capitalism and how it evolves around the […]
Democracy In Ancient Greece – Mirko Canevaro
We are holding a Zoom meeting to discuss David Graeber’s work with Mirko Canevaro who is the Professor of Greek History at the University of Edinburgh. The meeting will be related to David Graeber’s work: There Never Was A West, with a focus on the myths surrounding Democracy in Ancient Greece. We previously held in […]
Reading Group: Mikhail Bakhtin’s book Rabelais. Session 6
This is our long-awaited reading group on David Graeber’s favorite Mikhail Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World. These meetings are limited in number. The group is meeting 12 times during 2024/25, on the last Thursday of each month. Please follow these steps to subscribe to our mailing list:
What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun? / Steven Shaviro
On April 3rd, we host a Zoom meeting to discuss David Graeber’s work. The meeting will be about David Graeber’s essay “What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?” Professor Steven Shaviro will give the talk and it will be followed by a discussion from the audience. Steven Shaviro is Emeritus Professor of English at Wayne State […]
The opening conference of Islands in the future in St Vincent
Join us on April 8-15, 2025, to participate in a conference Islands in the future designed around ideas of the late anthropologist and activist David Graeber’s: ‘How can we build an international infrastructure of solidarity and care in the face of impending climate and political breakdown?’ Focused on exploring climate change in connection with social […]
Reading Group: Mikhail Bakhtin’s book Rabelais. Session 7
This is our long-awaited reading group on David Graeber’s favorite Mikhail Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World. These meetings are limited in number. The group is meeting 12 times during 2024/25, on the last Thursday of each month. Please follow these steps to subscribe to our mailing list: