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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 - July 11
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: 1211 Sixth Avenue It’s outside Fox News headquarters. The theme is: What’s it like being outside Fox News headquarters? What do we think that place […]
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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‘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 […]
UNEDUCATION: OPEN ASSEMBLY ZAGHREB
A Project in collaboration with Critical Studies Department Please join us on May 25th, 2022 at 7 PM CET for an open dialogue about The UNEDUCATION project, based on sharing and framing of pedagogical practices, together with Andris Brinkmanis, Nikola Bojić, Ana Dević, Nika Dubrovsky, Ivan Skvrce and Marko Tadic. We will be discussing questions […]
Discussion of Walter Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence”
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, […]
‘Lifelong Self-Learning and Modern Education,’ with Keith Hart
The lecture will take place on Thursday 28th April at 6pm (London time) and will be entitled ‘Lifelong self-learning and modern education.’ It summarises the philosophy of education that motivates Keith Hart’s new book, Self in the World: Connecting Life’s Extremes. (An hour-long podcast there is interesting. There is a 25% reduction (£18) on the 314-page paperback with […]
Follow-up on the previous Assembly “What is War?”
Dear friends and followers of the Farocki/Graeber project,I am happy to invite you to our 4th Assembly. This time, the main theme of the Assembly will be “War – Labor – Slavery”.When: April 27, 2022 08:00 PM London / 09:00 PM Berlin Preliminary program and materials:Part 1Follow-up on the previous Assembly “What is War?” (10-15 […]