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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
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, […]
‘THERE NEVER WAS A WEST’, PART 5, BY DAVID GRAEBER
For this fifth and final edition of our reading group of David Graeber’s text ‘There Never Was a West: Or, Democracy Emerges from the Spaces in Between.’ we continue from p. 362-368 or from Part V to end. We welcome presentations on any aspect of this text, be it 1 minute or 10 minutes. Like a democratic university […]
‘There Never Was a West’, Part 4, by David Graeber
For this fourth edition of our reading group of David Graeber’s text ‘There Never Was a West: Or, Democracy Emerges from the Spaces in Between.’ we continue from p. 355-362 or from Traditions as Acts of Endless Refoundation until Part V. We welcome presentations on any aspect of this text, be it 1 minute or 10 minutes. […]
‘There Never Was a West’, Part 2 and 3, by David Graeber
We are combining Part 2 and Part 3 of our reading group of David Graeber’s text ‘There Never Was a West: Or, Democracy Emerges from the Spaces in Between.’ We continue from p. 337 to 355 or from the Parenthetical note until Traditions as Acts of Endless Refoundation. We welcome presentations on any aspect of […]
UNEDUCATION: OPEN ASSEMBLY MILAN, PART II: UNLEARNING
19:00 (CET – Italy, Croatia, Austria time ) A PROJECT IN COLLABORATION WITH CRITICAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT Please join us on June 30th, 2022 at 7 PM CET for Part II: UNLEARNING, an open dialogue about the UNEDUCATION project, based on sharing and framing of pedagogical practices. This talk will be the second episode of a […]
‘This Is Not an Enlightener’, with Cédric Mong-Hy
The fundamental principles, values, and rights upon which our societies are based were born from dialogues and joint actions between multi-ethnic stakeholders. Graeber relates to them in his essay on Pirates from Madagascar and in The Dawn of Everything. To challenge the idea that the enlightenment of our Western societies came from white-European-men alone, our guest […]
‘There Never Was a West’, Part 1, by David Graeber
Our next reading group will be David Graeber’s text ‘There Never Was a West: Or, Democracy Emerges from the Spaces in Between.’ This week we will start with the first 9 pages (p. 329-337), in which David offers a crushing and original critique of Huntington’s theses. Also, we welcome presentations on any aspect of this […]
FIGHT CLUB: David Graeber Vs Thomas Hobbes / Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Direct from ringside, live and online.
May 29, 17:00 Berlin time, live at HKW Berlin and online Facilitators Jamie Kelsey Fry and Savitri D and the entire Fight Club project team invite you to join a People’s Assembly. The People’s Assembly will open for participation after you’ve watched a live fight between Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Graeber. The Assembly […]
A4kids workshop and public lecture
For: Children from 7 – 16 years old and parents accompanyingWhat: Workshop and lecture ANTHROPOLOGY FOR KIDS IS A SERIES OF BOOKS, WORKSHOPS AND CONVERSATIONS EACH FULL OF PICTURES AND STORIES ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A HUMAN. During her art talk, Nika will explain why A4kids was an important project for her late […]