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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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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. The recording of […]
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. […]