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Discussion Circles/Seminar of Care: How to Replace Production and Consumption with Care and Freedom
For the closing event of the “Discussion Circles”, we will be joined by the renowned feminist activist and author Silvia Federici. This Seminar of Care will focus specifically on the issues of contemporary migration and neo-colonialism and will be hosted by James Schneider, an English political organiser and writer, and Nika Dubrovsky (artist and co-founder of the […]
Discussion Circles: Living the Carnivalesque Way
The Museum of Care right after Carnival4David in the wake of his untimely death. The Memorial Carnival4David, which is the founding project of the Museum of Care (and, in turn, the David Graeber Institute), was set up to celebrate David’s life. Since then, carnival has been a recurring topic of the DGI and the Museum of Care’s […]
Discussion Circles: Technology as a Social Relationship
The institute’s mission is to explore how technology can help create a system where essential resources—like food, education, energy, and medicine—can be produced and distributed freely. That is, the DGI in St. Vincent seeks to support the production of intellectually intensive, not labour-intensive technology. We are looking for technologies, traditional and cutting-edge, that are centred on […]
Pedagogies of Care
Hosted and curated by Andris Brinkmanis, senior lecturer and the course Leader of BA in Painting and Visual Arts at NABA in Milan and Visiting Professor for the Art Academy of Latvia Curatorial Course, this series of encounters is designed around the legacies of historical figures – from Francisco Ferrer Guardia, Asja Lacis, Bertolt Brecht […]
Housekeeping Committee
The final Housekeeping Committee meeting this season! We will review the past events and discuss future plans of the Museum of Care. If you have the time and interest to help someone realize their vision, their educational efforts, please join us – just write us an email.
Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World Is… reading group will be meeting throughout 2024-2025, starting in September 2024. We will be joined by curators of the Museum of Care and guest speakers; and each meeting will be dedicated to one of David’s essays featured in the collection.On May 23rd, we will host a pre-launch […]
Fetish and Value, part 4
In the previous sessions we have covered the different aspects of David Graeber’s essay “Fetishism and Social Creativity“. This time we will follow David Graeber into his inquiry into “The very idea of consumption“. We will ask – how did this happen that the word used to describe the deadly disease came to be used […]
Pedagogies of Care, part 3
The third encounter of ‘Pedagogies of Care’ series will host artists and activists Mariette Schiltz and Edna Gee, both closely linked with ‘Isola Art Center’ and Isola Pepe Verde projects in Milan, Italy. ‘Isola Art Center’ was a free experimental and dynamic platform that combined internationally acclaimed contemporary art, emerging young art, and theoretical research with […]
The Virtues of Diogenes, Part 3: The Quest for Graeber's Golden Waistcoat
Building on the first two sessions, in this third session we will review what we have learnt about the world of Diogene’s philosophy, why it was rated by Graeber and focus on what it means for how we navigate theory and practice. For Diogene’s Cynics and later the Stoics, the mythical manifestation of how to […]
Fetish and Value, part 3
“When I conceived the idea of writing my own ‘Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value’ in the late 1990s, I originally … imagined its appearance would be followed by irate critiques from many of the principals insisting I had got their core arguments wrong, and a flurry of productive debates. Nothing of the sort ensued.” […]
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The Great Debt Debate Q&A
The First Fight between Michael Hudson and Thomas Piketty about thenature of Debt was held on the 10th anniversary of the edition of DavidGraeber’s 5000 Years of Debt. Michael Hudson and Thomas Piketty were seeking answers to the burning questions of our time. The fight had so many rounds that we didn’t have time to […]
KARAOKE Reading Group. Theme: Debt
The second Karaoke night is coming, and this time there’s a theme: ‘debt’! And by this we mean Debt: The First 5,000 Years, as it is the ten-year anniversary of publication. So the concept of the Karaoke reading group remains the same, but your chosen text must be from this work. If you want to […]
The Dawn of Everything Reading Group: Chapter 5
Thank you everyone who came! I found several questions fascinating and worth exploring father. 1) Zinaida Vasilieva notion about “slavery as a technology of care / social death through care”here is about it in the 5th chapter: Hierarchy and property may derive fromnotions of the sacred, but the most brutal forms of exploitation havetheir origins in the most […]
The Dawn of Everything Reading Group: Chapter 3
The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision and faith in the power of direct action. Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor
KARAOKE Reading Group
We’ll be resuming our reading group on Thursday 14th October. For our first session of the year, we will be experimenting with another new format. So, we will do what may be called ‘Karaoke Reading Group’. The concept is simple enough: 1. Pick a text you like. We will start this experiment with texts by […]
Fights Club Press
Debts that can’t be paid, won’t be paid: The first David Graeber Foundation meetup, between Thomas Piketty and Michael Hudson. by Cory Doctorow / September 29, 2021 It’s What the Babies Eat: Inflammatory Capitalism in Mushby Paul Haeder / September 30th, 2021
Here is a transcript of the 1st Fight Club: Michael Hudson and Thomas Piketty (English).
This debate between Michael Hudson and Thomas Piketty on September 23, 2021, is available on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWT0uvBLDbo The debate was monitored by Lynn Parramore, and introduced by David Graeber’s widow, Nika. Dubrovsky. Closing speach by Steve Keen. Nika: Hi, I’m Nika. I’m David’s wife. This is an event in the honor of the first anniversary […]
Michael Hudson versus Thomas Piketty
RSA, Museum of Care, the Institute of David Graeber for the 1st year of the anniversary of David’s death we hosted the first Fight Club debate. September 23, 2021 The renowned academic economists: Michael Hudson and Thomas Piketty will meet on the anniversary of David Graeber’s death and the 10th-anniversary publication of his book “Debt […]
Visual Assembly in Madrid / 22 September/Esta es una Plaza
eng / spa Please note: here’s our original plan that was cancelled, this is the updated version. Join us on September 22 at 3 PM Madrid time for the 1st year memorial of David Graeber, in person or on zoom. As part of the IRI’s projects of the Zapatista Forum, the David Graeber foundation, the Museum […]
The Dawn of Everything Reading Group: Chapter 2
The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision and faith in the power of direct action. Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor