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Seminars of Care
In 2020, David Graeber and several LSE students set up a reading group devoted to the themes of care and caring. The aim of this group was to create a space for discussion and reflection on work that was then (and still is) little integrated into the classic corpus of anthropological teaching. Between February and […]
Bullshit Jobs
“It once came into my head that if it were desired to reduce a man to nothing, to punish him atrociously, to crush him in such a manner that the most hardened murdered would tremble at such a punishment and take fright beforehand, it would only be necessary to give to his work such a […]
The State We’re In (Part 1): What is the State?
facilitated by a Museum-Of-Care reader chosen by sortition 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 Paul Feldman will discuss what is the contemporary state. […]
Housekeeping Committee / Mastodon Assembly
This is a group of people who assist room curators in taking care of their rooms.If you have the time and interest to help someone realize their vision, their educational efforts, please join us.We will also be discussing the development of a critical project: the Mastadon server, aimed towards creating a publicly run social network.
AptArt exhibition: “Carnival and War”
Friday 20.10 APTART “Carnival and War” Our second AptArt exhibition – Carnival and War, following the APTART “50 YEARS OF PROTEST POSTERS IN THE UK.” It dedicated to the theme “War and Carnival”. This time we will try to broadcast the opening online. We will give a tour of the exhibits, answer questions and ask […]
Keith Hart, Self in the World: Connecting Life’s Extremes - First session
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 mutual understanding that we can share. Lived society may become exposed to introspection in this way. Fragments of experience […]
Conversations of Care
Conversations of Care are monthly meetings with invited speakers, whom we think David Graeber would be interested to talk or with whom he had conversations during his lifetime. We are starting with the monthly conversation with Keith Hart facilitated by Steven Bachelor. Here is the format, that Keith proposed in the conversation with Nika Dubrovsky: […]
The Origins of Modern Debt Politics in Greece and Rome - Reading Michael Hudson's "The Collapse of Antiquity" Part 2
In the second session we take a look how debt crises arose in Sparta and try to apply David Graeber’s framework from Debt – The first 5000 years (mainly chapter 5 and chapter 9 – if anybody wants to check their notes). Suggested reading is the summery doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BrkeryoR_-gqstFs0WlIBhAFj3pzPwocS4HZBEcGtFI/edit?usp=sharing Suggested further reading are chapters two […]
Adrian Bowyer’s Lecture
The first event in the Brain Trust Lectures series On 28 Sep 2023, Brian Trust is hosting a lecture by the engineer and mathematician, inventor of the open source 3D printer that became the basis for most of the 3D printers in the world today – Adrian Bowyer.“We will not take the means of production away from […]
Housekeeping Committee/Mastodon Assembly
The first Housekeeping Committee meeting of the Museum of Care for this season! We’ll revisit the Mastodon project, and everyone is invited to join the discussion from 18:30 to 19:00 London time! Prior to that, at 18:00 learn more about Mastadon project here , we will have our regular Housekeeping Committee meeting. Register, please.
ROY BHASKAR’S ‘ENLIGHTENED COMMON SENSE’ AND ‘FROM SCIENCE TO EMANCIPATION’ – READING GROUP PART 8
One of the most influential voices in the philosophy of science and a political revolutionary David Graeber about Roy Bhaskar You can access the text here This session we will resume our studies after our summer break. We’ll review the material we have covered so far in Enlightened Common Sense chapters 1-5, basically the entirety of […]
2023-2024 Season Opening - Carnival
The David Graeber Institute and Museum of Care cordially invite you to the opening of a new season that will include an exhibition, movie screening, carnival, and party. Join us on September 16, 2023, for assembling together, co-creation, caring for each other, and food sharing. DGI Cinema launch DGI Cinema is a project dedicated to public screenings […]
Workshop for Pirate Carnival for David
PIRATE CARNIVAL On September 15 and 16 at 5pm, we will gather to celebrate ten years of Rowley Way being recognized as an architectural landmark, along with the opening of the new season of work of the David Graeber Institute and Museum of Care. At 5pm, Friday September 15, at the TRA Hall on the Alexandra Road Estate artists and designers will […]
The Origins of Modern Debt Politics in Greece and Rome - Reading Michael Hudson's "The Collapse of Antiquity" Part 1
In this first session we pull back the camera and look at the overall story of the book and how its lessons on debt in antiquity apply to today. Suggested reading is the summery at the beginning of the book as well as chapter one. The goal is to have a lively discussion – bring […]
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 […]
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The Origins of Modern Debt Politics in Greece and Rome – Reading Michael Hudson’s “The Collapse of Antiquity” Part 2
In the second session we take a look how debt crises arose in Sparta and try to apply David Graeber’s framework from Debt – The first 5000 years (mainly chapter 5 and chapter 9 – if anybody wants to check their notes). Suggested reading is the summery doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BrkeryoR_-gqstFs0WlIBhAFj3pzPwocS4HZBEcGtFI/edit?usp=sharing Suggested further reading are chapters two […]
Keith Hart, Self in the World: Connecting Life’s Extremes – First session
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 mutual understanding that we can share. Lived society may become exposed to introspection in this way. Fragments of experience […]
Conversations of Care
Conversations of Care are monthly meetings with invited speakers, whom we think David Graeber would be interested to talk or with whom he had conversations during his lifetime. We are starting with the monthly conversation with Keith Hart facilitated by Steven Bachelor. Here is the format, that Keith proposed in the conversation with Nika Dubrovsky: […]
AptArt exhibition: “Carnival and War”
Friday 20.10 APTART “Carnival and War” Our second AptArt exhibition – Carnival and War, following the APTART “50 YEARS OF PROTEST POSTERS IN THE UK.” It dedicated to the theme “War and Carnival”. This time we will try to broadcast the opening online. We will give a tour of the exhibits, answer questions and ask […]
Housekeeping Committee / Mastodon Assembly
This is a group of people who assist room curators in taking care of their rooms.If you have the time and interest to help someone realize their vision, their educational efforts, please join us.We will also be discussing the development of a critical project: the Mastadon server, aimed towards creating a publicly run social network.
The State We’re In (Part 1): What is the State?
facilitated by a Museum-Of-Care reader chosen by sortition 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 Paul Feldman will discuss what is the contemporary state. […]
Bullshit Jobs
“It once came into my head that if it were desired to reduce a man to nothing, to punish him atrociously, to crush him in such a manner that the most hardened murdered would tremble at such a punishment and take fright beforehand, it would only be necessary to give to his work such a […]
Seminars of Care
In 2020, David Graeber and several LSE students set up a reading group devoted to the themes of care and caring. The aim of this group was to create a space for discussion and reflection on work that was then (and still is) little integrated into the classic corpus of anthropological teaching. Between February and […]