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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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
19:00 (CET – Italy, Croatia, Austria time ) Please register for the meeting:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcoceitrj8iH91yl48pYyIAAcxZVQjmrblI After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. 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 […]
The fundamental principles, values, and rights upon which our societies are based were born from dialogues and joint actions between multi-ethnic stakeholders. Graeber relates to them in his essay on Pirates from Madagascar and in The Dawn of Everything. To challenge the idea that the enlightenment of our Western societies came from white-European-men alone, our guest […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
The third public lecture of the David Graeber Philosophical series will be about Alfred North Whitehead, and will be presented by Steven Shaviro and is entitled ‘The Art of Life: David Graeber and Alfred North Whitehead.’ The lecture will take place on 21st April at 7pm (London Time). In this talk, I will first give […]
Announcing the next Karaoke reading group on The Dawn of Everything on the 14th of April at 8pm (London time). This will be the festive finale to mark the end of the twelve reading group sessions facilitated by Steve—also on the same book. The concept of the Karaoke reading group remains the same—if you don’t […]
In the concluding session of The Dawn of Everything reading group, people expressed their happiness with the reading group as it has unfolded through these many months and a wish to continue. The group has initially decided to meet next at the regular time, to continue a discussion of culture as it figures in cultural […]
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 Research Projects that will seek answers to […]
This is a 3d Assembly of Harun Farocki/David Graeber’s project. This time we are going to talk about war. Antje Ehmann hosted private dinner with participation of Boris Buden and many friends to continue the discussion. We will keep this video private for the time being, but probably will publish it sometimes in the future.
Works on War. March 30th, 2022. 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 […]
The second lecture of the David Graeber Philosophical series will be about Bhaskar. It will be delivered by Frederic Vandenberghe and Douglas Porpora and is entitled ‘Critical realism and baseline communism. A heavenly discussion between Roy Bhaskar and David Graeber.’ Critical realism is a philosophical movement in the social sciences associated with the work of […]
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 […]
Facilitation by Steve
Our next reading group on Thursday 10th March 2022 at 8pm (London time) will be a discussion of Marshall Sahlins’s articles on ‘What Kinship Is’. Ellen Judd, who has kindly agreed to help facilitate the group, wrote the following introduction: In response to the interest in our group of exploring Marshall Sahlins’ work further, I […]
With the participation of Stephen Snelders as keynote speakers. In this webinar, we will look at the alternative social orders created by the pirates (content, process, organisation…) and see how this approach challenged well rooted XVIII th century notions of hierarchy, inequalities, and social justice. Pirates were led by modern types of leaders, and this […]
Facilitation by Steve
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 […]
We will discuss Chapter 10: ‘Why the State Has no Origin’. Facilitation by Steve. At 8pm London Time. Zoom link: https://bit.ly/3kifxZYMeeting ID: 604 596 7588Passcode: CITY See below the video of this reading group:
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 […]
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. The starting point for our […]
With the participation of Marcus Rediker as keynote speaker. In this webinar, we will introduce the concept of history from below. Based on the history of piracy, we will identify the reasons why this bottom-up approach has not been welcomed and what could be done in the future to foster such approach. This event will […]
We are going to discuss Chapter 9: ‘Hiding in Plain Sight.’ Facilitation by Steve. 8 pm (London time). Zoom link: https://bit.ly/3kifxZYMeeting ID: 604 596 7588Passcode: CITY Please find below the video of this reading group:
Facilitation by Steve Zoom link: https://bit.ly/3kifxZY Meeting ID: 604 596 7588 Passcode: CITY Spending more time on Chapter 8 “Imaginary Cities,” we continue to explore how different groups of humans decided to group themselves into what we might deem cities. There are examples of modern forager societies existing on two scales of imagination — the […]
Facilitation by Simona
Facilitation by Steve
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Mao Mollona (Goldsmiths Senior Lecturer Anthropology) and Andrew Sanchez (Cambridge Associate Professor Anthropology)
Join us on December 8 pm Berlin time for the discussion about “what is divorce?” with Silvia Federici, author of Caliban and the Witches.Moderated by Veronica Davidov as a part of the event at Studio 1 Künstlerhaus Bethanien! You are warmly and proudly invited to “RE VON DER POESIE IM RECHT”, featuring —- a sound […]
Facilitation by Steve
by Hannah Arendt Center, Museum of Care & EDI (<– click on this and follow to register) Wed, December 1, 2021 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM CST
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 […]
General Assembly from Simona Ferlini “We skipped last month’s, and I miss you, girls!” 20:00 GMT (21:00 CET,15:00 EST)
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 […]
13 -11-2021 a reading group #MuseumofCare Dawn of everything, 5th chapter 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 […]
29 October 2021 Value; Chris Gregory (Australian National University Emeritus Prof Anthropology) and Don Kalb (Bergen Prof Anthropology)
We’ll be resuming our reading group on Thursday 14th October. For our first session of the year, we will be experimenting with another new format. So, we will do what may be called ‘Karaoke Reading Group’. The concept is simple enough: 1. Pick a text you like. We will start this experiment with texts by […]
Debts that can’t be paid, won’t be paid: The first David Graeber Foundation meetup, between Thomas Piketty and Michael Hudson. Cory Doctorow / September 29, 2021 It’s What the Babies Eat: Inflammatory Capitalism in Mushby Paul Haeder / September 30th, 2021
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 […]
RSA, Museum of Care, the Institute of David Graeber for the 1st year of the anniversary of David’s death we hosted the first Fight Club debate. September 23, 2021 The renowned academic economists: Michael Hudson and Thomas Piketty will meet on the anniversary of David Graeber’s death and the 10th-anniversary publication of his book “Debt […]
eng / spa Please note: here’s our original plan that was cancelled, this is the updated version. Join us on September 22 at 3 PM Madrid time for the 1st year memorial of David Graeber, in person or on zoom: https://bit.ly/3kifxZYMeeting ID: 604 596 7588Passcode: CITY As part of the IRI’s projects of the Zapatista Forum, the […]
Anti-Education: On the Future of Our Educational Institutions by Friedrich Nietzsche (available here). Facilitator(s) for this session: Vittoria & Andris.
With David Graeber’s latest book (co-written by David Wengrow), The Dawn of Everything, coming out in October this year, we thought it might be a good idea to dedicate the next reading group to ‘Culture as Creative Refusal,’ which develops as one of the key points of the book. Link to the text. See you […]
Following on from our last session which reflected on David Graeber’s text on the ‘Monastic Self,’ our next session on 5th August will be a discussion of Maurice Bloch’s paper on ‘Going In and Out of Each Other’s Bodies.’ (Please don’t get too excited because we’re only referring to neuronal connection here.) Links to Bloch’s […]
We are happy to announce the first curatorial collective of the Museum of Care for June and July 2021 with the topic: education and (anti)institutions. The Museum of Care was initiated in memory of David Graeber as a non-institutional space in which people of different social, economic, and cultural backgrounds can engage in dialogue about […]
Dear all, here is a video from our yesterday’s Assembly I am eternally grateful to the students of the Critical Studies Department, Andris Brinkmanis, Zasha Colah and Archive Milano, who will be curating the Museum of Care for the next two or three months.Our programmer, Oleg Kostishin, is sharing access with them so they can run […]
A special group this week, as we will be welcoming Alexei Yurchak, who will present his essay ‘Communist Proteins: Lenin’s Skin, Astrobiology, and the Origin of Life.’ Here is the link to text. Alexei Yurchak is a Professor of Anthropology at Berkeley. He is the author of Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: […]
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 […]