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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 […]
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 […]
Reading Group: Mikhail Bakhtin’s book Rabelais. Session 2.
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 Rabelais: pp. 59-61; on laughter: pp. 66-73; on the ‘feast of fools’: pp. 74-75; pp. 78-82; on parody: pp. 87-95. These meetings are limited in number. The group is […]
Pedagogies of Care: The Swamp School
The next encounter of ‘Pedagogies of Care’ series’ be on 14th of November, we will host Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas from MIT. In conversation with Andris Brinkmanis, they will present their interdisciplinary artistic practice, focusing in particular on their ongoing project The Swamp School. To register for the event, please click here. Nomeda & Gediminas […]
Cities Made Differently Visual Assembly
Come out to the Archive for a hands-on workshop, facilitated by Nika Dubrovsky, inspired by the release of Nika and late anthropologist and activist David Graeber’s new book Cities Made Differently. The workshop will be held at Interference Archive in New York, Friday, November 8, 6 – 9pm EST. It offers a space for people of […]
"There Was Never a West": dicsussion with Marcus Rediker
The second discussion of David Graeber’s essay “There Never Was a West”, led and moderated by Marcus Rediker, in the frame of “The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World…” reading group. In this session, we will be joined by Marcus Rediker, a historian, writer, teacher, and activist. Register here. View the full program of “The Ultimate Hidden […]
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Roy Bhaskar’s ‘Enlightened Common Sense’ and ‘From Science to Emancipation’ – Reading Group Part 2
“One of the most influential voices in the philosophy of science and a political revolutionary”David Graeber In this second meeting of the Bhaskar reading group, we will discuss chapter 2 of Enlightened Common Sense. You can access the text here. The recording of this meeting has been archived.
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber – Reading Group Part 4
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor. We will be discussing chapters 5 and 6 this week. 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! Here is .pdf of zoom-chat.
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber – Reading Group Part 3
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor. We will be discussing chapters 3 and 4 this week. 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! Here is .pdf of zoom-chat.
Roy Bhaskar’s ‘Enlightened Common Sense’ and ‘From Science to Emancipation’ – Reading Group Part 1
“One of the most influential voices in the philosophy of science and a political revolutionary”David Graeber This inaugural meeting of the Roy Bhaskar reading group will introduce both these books and discuss the form this reading group will take over the coming weeks For this session we will be discussing the first chapter of “Enlightened […]
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber – Reading Group Part 2
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor. 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! Here is .pdf of zoom-chat.
大卫·格雷伯研究所开幕与“气候紧急状态”公寓 / 艺术全球展
大卫·格雷伯研究所将于2022年10月29日当地时间晚间7点，在伦敦亚历山大路住宅区（Rowley Way）的 52 Boundary Rd, London NW8 0HJ 宣布开幕，并举办首届“气候紧急状态”公寓艺术展（APT/ART – CLIMATE EMERGENCY），世界各地都会同时举办此次展览的平行展。
AptArt around the World: Celebrating the launch of the David Graeber Institute.
At 19:00hrs (London time), October 29, 2022, the David Graeber Institute opened with its inaugural Apartment Art Exhibition APT / ART – CLIMATE EMERGENCY at 52 Boundary Rd, London NW8 0HJ (Rowley Way) simultaneously with parallel exhibitions taking place all over the world. The David Graeber Institute opens two years after the death of David […]
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber – Reading Group Part 1
This inaugural meeting of the Debt reading group introduces the book and present a special guest. More details will be coming soon on Chapter distribution.Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor.
David Graeber Philosophical Series: Peirce, with Federico Montanari
The David Graeber Philosophical series will resume after the holidays with a lecture about Charles Sanders Peirce, which will be presented by Federico Montanari and is entitled ‘Peirce, Semiotics, back to David Graeber. Perspectives for a revolutionary study of signs?’. In this seminar I would like to explore the interest and possible path linking David […]
Discussion of Walter Benjamin’s “A Critique of Violence” – Part 2
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, […]