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Visual Assembly in New York and everywhere: The Strangers Among Us – or Are We the Strangers?
Join us on July 25 at 6pm New York time! We’re hosting a Visual Assembly—a public gathering where people come together to draw, talk, and imagine. It’s not a protest or a conference. It’s a space to think and act together, using images instead of speeches. This Assembly is about migration and how our cities […]
Self-Organized Visual Assembly - 4 July
Hi everyone! Last week we had some incredible chalk drawn by some great chalkers. If you are one of those people thank you so much your contributions were beautiful This Friday: 6:30pm: 65 E 57th St, New York, NY 10022 There’s no theme this week, everyone did such a great job on their own we […]
Debt, Empire, and the Future: Dialogues with Michael Hudson | part 2
If one starts poking at the history of debt, what one discovers is not a history of honor, or integrity, but a history of violence, slavery, and war. The world’s great empires were built on debt, and the moral claims of creditors have always been enforced by the threat of force. Graeber insisted that the […]
Visual Assembly: A Playground of the Future / Sigana International Storytelling Festival
Ways of imagining a playground as a space of collectivity and care Every society relies on collective storytelling and social bonds. David Graeber and Nika Dubrovsky’s Anthropology for Kids books and workshops inspired the idea of Visual Assemblies, where people come together to collectively imagine the future. One long-standing focus of Visual Assemblies and Anthropology […]
Self-Organized Visual Assembly - 27 June
This POPS (privately owned public space) was nicer than the average one was. It was pleasantly arranged with lots of places to sit and plenty of tree cover. Not perfect, and certainly no match for the famous Bryant Park one block away, but it’s solid attendance spoke for its quality. We did notice that one […]
Self-Organized Visual Assembly - 20 June
This event took place near Wall st., and participants really took this to heart. Many passers-by who joined in were very upset with electoral politics, and wanted to write about what they didn’t want. However, once they saw the tree of knowledge and fruit, the discussion on street plant selection, and free bikes chalked on […]
Self-organized Visual Assembly - July 18
Re-imagine New York with us. Every week, we will decide together what’s missing, then bring it into chalky existence. Become Robert Moses’ worst nightmare!(Almost) Every Friday this summer, we are bringing the chalk. All we need from you is your understanding of the city, your doodling abilities, and a desire to use our state-of-the-art chalk […]
Self-Organised Visual Assembly — 13 June
Report From June 13: We started with nature. Wheat fields, canals, islands. Manhattan used to have these things, but they are now hard to find. It was nice to imagine them coming back. As it was one of the first warm days, people thought about putting barbecues on the islands within the canals. Bike paths […]
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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 […]
DEBT IN DISCUSSION WITH BARRY GILLS
To conclude our long-lasting reading group on Debt: the First 5,000 Years, we invited Barry Gills for the second and final meeting of Debt in Discussion. BARRY GILLS Barry K Gills is Professor of Development Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland and founding Editor and Editor in Chief of Globalizations journal and the Rethinking Globalizations book series (Routledge). He is also […]
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 […]
Talk with Viktor Misiano
The next event in the Collectivity room at the Museum of Care will be a conversation with Viktor Misiano, a Russian contemporary art curator and theorist. During the event, we will delve into Soviet and post-Soviet history and explore the art communities of that era, their culture, attitudes towards collectivity, and socially accepted norms. Viktor […]
Mastodon Assembly 26.07.23
The third meeting of our ongoing discussion about our Mastodon server at graeber.social and ways to develop it. Agenda
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, do get […]
31.05.2023 Housekeeping Committee / Mastodon Assembly
We will divide the meeting into two parts. The first part will consist of our regular private conversation with Housekeeping Committee members. The second part will be open to the Museum of Care community and will focus on the discussion of rules for our Mastodon server at graeber.social The summary of First Mastodon Assembly that […]
Reading Group on Andrew Johnson’s ‘Bureaucrats with guns…’
On May 25, we discussed 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 of police […]
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. Next meeting Wednesday, November 1, 2023, 12:30 pm London Time. We will be reading the following: 1. Jean […]
DEBT IN DISCUSSION WITH MICHAEL HUDSON
Our reading group on “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” has been meeting twice a month since October and is now coming to an end with two final meetings left. On May 18, the Museum of Care invited an economist Michael Hudson to talk about debt and many other subjects we’ve explored throughout the reading group. […]