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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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The Dawn of Everything Reading Group: Chapter 12 – Conclusion
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.
‘What Kinship Is’, by Marshall Sahlins
Our next reading group on Thursday 10th March 2022 at 8pm (London time) will be a discussion of Marshall Sahlins’s articles on ‘What Kinship Is’. Ellen Judd, who has kindly agreed to help facilitate the group, wrote the following introduction: In response to the interest in our group of exploring Marshall Sahlins’ work further, I […]
‘This Is Not a Leader’, with Stephen Snelders
With the participation of Stephen Snelders as keynote speakers. In this webinar, we will look at the alternative social orders created by the pirates (content, process, organisation…) and see how this approach challenged well rooted XVIII th century notions of hierarchy, inequalities, and social justice. Pirates were led by modern types of leaders, and this […]
The Dawn of Everything Reading Group: Chapter 11
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
‘Visions of Sustainable Economies’ Book Club: The Dawn of Everything – Part 2
Chapters 5-8 (pg 164-327) Thursday March 3 at 12:00 PM (Timezone: America/Chicago) Young Scholars Initiative Visions of Sustainable Economies – a Book Club Topic: The Dawn of Everything – Part 2 Time: March 3, 2022, 12:00 (Timezone: America/Chicago) Register to join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: here DESCRIPTION OF THIS PART OF THE […]
The Dawn of Everything Reading Group: Chapter 10
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.
‘Visions of Sustainable Economies’ Book Club: The Dawn of Everything – Part 1
Chapters 1-4 (pp 1-163) February 17, 2022, 12:00 PM (Timezone: America/Chicago) Young Scholars Initiative Visions of Sustainable Economies – a Book Club Topic: The Dawn of Everything – Part 1 Time: February 17, 2022, 12:00 (Timezone: America/Chicago) Register to join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: here DESCRIPTION OF THIS PART OF THE SERIES […]
David Graeber Philosophical Series: Spinoza, with Maxime Rovère
We are organising, under the patronage of Museum of Care and the David Graeber Institute, a series of public lectures on the philosophical foundations of the work of David Graeber, whose death in September 2020 was an enormous shock and left a void in anthropology and far beyond the discipline. The starting point for our […]
‘This Is Not History’, with Marcus Rediker
With the participation of Marcus Rediker as keynote speaker. In this webinar, we will introduce the concept of history from below. Based on the history of piracy, we will identify the reasons why this bottom-up approach has not been welcomed and what could be done in the future to foster such approach. This event will […]
The Dawn of Everything Reading Group: Chapter 9
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.