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"There Was Never a West": Greg Yudin in conversation with Mirko Canevaro

05 December, 2024 / 20:00

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 […]

"There Was Never a West": dicsussion with Marcus Rediker

07 November, 2024 / 20:00

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 […]

Talk with Peter Sahlins about his book "Forest Rites: The War of the Demoiselles in Nineteenth-Century France."

31 October, 2024

On the 31st October, we host a meeting with the author Peter Sahlins about Mikhail Bakhtin’s book, Rabelais as well as about David Graeber’s new book, The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World. Peter Sahlins is the author of, Forest Rites: The War of the Demoiselles in Nineteenth-Century France, which tells the history of the The […]

Reading Group: Mikhail Bakhtin’s book Rabelais. With Peter Sahlins.

31 October, 2024 / 07:00

We are starting our long-awaited reading group on Mikhail Bakhtin and his book Rabelais and His World. These meetings will be limited in number and will not be entirely online but will include public lectures. The group will meet 12 times during 2024/25, on the last Thursday of each month. During the first hour, a […]

reading group on Material Temporalities

08 October, 2024

The Soviet Temporalities Room is opening its autumn season with a reading group on Material Temporalities. Our first session is on Tuesday, October 8, at 4pm BST, curated byJulie Deschepper. We will discuss a volume that Julie has just co-edited, titled Time and Material Culture. Rethinking Soviet Temporalities (July 2024). The volume offers an exploration into the temporalities of Soviet […]

Enshittification; Was There Ever an Old, Good Internet? / Cory Doctorow

03 October, 2024 / 20:00

In this session of “The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World…” reading group ( OCTOBER 3 / 2024, 8 pm GMT), we will be joined by Cory Doctorow and discuss Enshittification. Enshittification: Was There Ever an Old, Good Internet?It sure feels like the internet used to be good. What made it good? Was it better people? Better […]

"I Didn't Understand How Widespread Rape Was. Then the Penny Dropped": discussion with Dyan Neary Sep 2, 2024 08:00 PM (GTM)

02 September, 2024 / 20:00

As part of The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World is … reading group DGI organising a series of talks. On September 2nd, we will meet to discuss David Graeber’s essay I Didn’t Understand How Widespread Rape Was. Then the Penny Dropped. We will be joined by Dyan Neary, a writer, journalist, academic and documentary […]

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The Dawn of Everything Reading Group: Chapter 5

13 November, 2021 / 20:00

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

27 October, 2021 / 20:00

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

14 October, 2021 / 20:00

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

02 October, 2021

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).

30 September, 2021

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

23 September, 2021

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

22 September, 2021

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

01 September, 2021 / 20:00

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

Anti-Education: On the Future of Our Educational Institutions by Friedrich Nietzsche.

27 August, 2021

Anti-Education: On the Future of Our Educational Institutions by Friedrich Nietzsche (available here). Facilitator(s) for this session: Vittoria & Andris.

‘Culture as Creative Refusal’ by David Graeber

19 August, 2021

With David Graeber’s latest book (co-written by David Wengrow), The Dawn of Everything, coming out in October this year, we thought it might be a good idea to dedicate the next reading group to ‘Culture as Creative Refusal,’ which develops as one of the key points of the book. Link to the text. See you […]