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Reading Group on Andrew Johnson's 'Bureaucrats with guns...'
On May 25, we will be discussing Andrew Johnson’s ‘Bureaucrats with guns: Or, how we can abolish the police if we just stop believing in them‘. The reading group will be led and moderated by Steve Bachelor. Abstract David Graeber’s essay On the phenomenology of giant puppets: Broken windows, imaginary jars of urine, and the cosmological role […]
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 look forward to developing the ideas discussed […]
A Talk on Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov “Personality and collective" with Kyrill Potapov and Corinna Lotz
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 […]
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, please be […]
DEBT: THE FIRST 5,000 YEARS BY DAVID GRAEBER – READING GROUP PART 13
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor
ROY BHASKAR’S ‘ENLIGHTENED COMMON SENSE’ AND ‘FROM SCIENCE TO EMANCIPATION’ – READING GROUP PART 6
One of the most influential voices in the philosophy of science and a political revolutionaryDavid Graeber about Roy Bhaskar You can access the text here
DEBT: THE FIRST 5,000 YEARS BY DAVID GRAEBER – READING GROUP chapter 11 and the beginning of chapter 12
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor
Another Art World, Part 1: Art Communism and Artificial Scarcity
We will read Another Art World, Part 1: Art Communism and Artificial Scarcityby David Graeber and Nika Dubrovsky The idea for this reading group came from a question Max Puchalsky asked while reading Walter Benjamin’s text The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Max Puchalsky: I was also thinking about Another Art […]
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 […]
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 […]
DEBT: THE FIRST 5,000 YEARS BY DAVID GRAEBER – READING GROUP PART 11
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor. We will be discussing both the last section of Chap 10 (“What, Then, Were the Middle Ages?”) and the beginning of Chap 11 up to and including Part I (“Part I: Greed, Terror, Indignation, Debt”). Bring your favorite quotes and related material. Click on the title above to register.
Roy Bhaskar’s ‘Enlightened Common Sense’ and ‘From Science to Emancipation’ – Reading Group Part 5
One of the most influential voices in the philosophy of science and a political revolutionaryDavid Graeber about Roy Bhaskar This session will be focused on chapter 3. It will be the third and final discussion of chapter 3 where we will synthesize our thoughts and discoveries on Bhaskar’s views on social science. You can access […]
DEBT: THE FIRST 5,000 YEARS BY DAVID GRAEBER - READING GROUP PART 10
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor. We’ll continue discussing Chapter 10 (as needed) and then Chapter 11. Bring your favorite quotes and related material. Click on the title above to register.
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 […]
22.02.2023 Housekeeping Committee
Agenda – report on new rooms and their development– Paola had proposed a really important fundraising event for Rojava – We can discuss further the implementation of the discussion in the rooms– Plans for the future Timeline Regular events Other upcoming events 23 February, 2023 Reading Group On Ayça Çubukçu’s David Graeber’s Anthropology Of Human Possibilities 23 […]
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber - Reading Group Part 9
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor. The goal is to have read as much of Chapter 10 as possible. Realistically, we anticipate finishing discussion of this chapter at a second meeting. Bring your favorite quotes and related material. Please register (please click on the title).
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, […]
Roy Bhaskar’s ‘Enlightened Common Sense’ and ‘From Science to Emancipation’ – Reading Group Part 4
One of the most influential voices in the philosophy of science and a political revolutionaryDavid Graeber about Roy Bhaskar You can access the text here https://drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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. […]
Material Photographies Reading Group
curated by Conservation Lab The Material Photographies Research 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. We will be reading: Let us know if you need the texts. conslab@studio14a.net Allyn, Helen, Sam, […]
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber - Reading Group Part 8
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor. We will be discussing chapter 9. Bring your favorite quotes and/or related material.
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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 […]
Another Art World, Part 1: Art Communism and Artificial Scarcity
We will read Another Art World, Part 1: Art Communism and Artificial Scarcityby David Graeber and Nika Dubrovsky The idea for this reading group came from a question Max Puchalsky asked while reading Walter Benjamin’s text The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Max Puchalsky: I was also thinking about Another Art […]
DEBT: THE FIRST 5,000 YEARS BY DAVID GRAEBER – READING GROUP chapter 11 and the beginning of chapter 12
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor
ROY BHASKAR’S ‘ENLIGHTENED COMMON SENSE’ AND ‘FROM SCIENCE TO EMANCIPATION’ – READING GROUP PART 6
One of the most influential voices in the philosophy of science and a political revolutionaryDavid Graeber about Roy Bhaskar You can access the text here
DEBT: THE FIRST 5,000 YEARS BY DAVID GRAEBER – READING GROUP PART 13
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor
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, please be […]
A Talk on Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov “Personality and collective” with Kyrill Potapov and Corinna Lotz
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 […]
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 look forward to developing the ideas discussed […]
Reading Group on Andrew Johnson’s ‘Bureaucrats with guns…’
On May 25, we will be discussing Andrew Johnson’s ‘Bureaucrats with guns: Or, how we can abolish the police if we just stop believing in them‘. The reading group will be led and moderated by Steve Bachelor. Abstract David Graeber’s essay On the phenomenology of giant puppets: Broken windows, imaginary jars of urine, and the cosmological role […]