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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Events list
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. […]
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.
25.01.2023 Housekeeping Committee
Agenda:– New rooms/new projects. Inviting room curators to a housekeeping committee – 15 minutes– Preparing for the Pirate Enlightenment presentation– Carnival in 2023. Room presentations
Pirate Enlightenment Discussion at Brooklyn Public Library
Virginia Heffernan, Edward Ongweso, Jr., Gideon Lewis-Kraus, and Andrew Ross discuss David Graeber’s Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia, the final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything. Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and radical visions of freedom. But at the root […]
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber – Reading Group Part 7
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor. We will be discussing chapter 8. Bring your favorite quotes or related material.
Roy Bhaskar’s ‘Enlightened Common Sense’ and ‘From Science to Emancipation’ – Reading Group Part 3
“One of the most influential voices in the philosophy of science and a political revolutionary”David Graeber That meeting we’ve discussed chapter 3 (first part) of Enlightened Common Sense. The recording of this meeting has been archived. You can see the saved zoom-chat here.
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber – Reading Group Part 6
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor. We’ve discussed chapter 7. Here is a draft of the materials of the collective textbook on David Graeber’s book Debt 5000 years. If you want to add something, ask questions or comment You are welcome! There is a record of the meeting below and link for .pdf of zoom-chat