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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 - 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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KARAOKE Reading Group. Theme: The Dawn of Everything
Announcing the next Karaoke reading group on The Dawn of Everything on the 14th of April at 8pm (London time). This will be the festive finale to mark the end of the twelve reading group sessions facilitated by Steve—also on the same book. The concept of the Karaoke reading group remains the same—if you don’t […]
A Further Exploration of Culture
In the concluding session of The Dawn of Everything reading group, people expressed their happiness with the reading group as it has unfolded through these many months and a wish to continue. The group has initially decided to meet next at the regular time, to continue a discussion of culture as it figures in cultural […]
Farocki Graeber Residencies Program
curated by Antje Ehmann and Nika Dubrovsky This project began with a private lunch at Antje Ehmann’s home.Nika and Anti decided that David and Harun’s work, who did not know each other in life, would enrich and develop each other in an exchange of content, experiences, friends and followers. We have Assemblies, Discussions, Residencies, and […]
What is War?
This is a 3d Assembly of Harun Farocki/David Graeber’s project. This time we are going to talk about war. Antje Ehmann hosted private dinner with participation of Boris Buden and many friends to continue the discussion. We will keep this video private for the time being, but probably will publish it sometimes in the future.
Harun Farocki & David Graeber: what is war.
In light of the events developing in Ukraine the forthcoming assembly will be dedicated to the works that both HF and DG wrote, produced or sketched on the subject of war. David Graeber on the War. One of the unpublished notes on the war: Main points: non-segmented forager societies tend not to have war (though […]
David Graeber Philosophical Series: Bhaskar, with Frederic Vandenberghe and Douglas Porpora
The second lecture of the David Graeber Philosophical series will be about Bhaskar. It will be delivered by Frederic Vandenberghe and Douglas Porpora and is entitled ‘Critical realism and baseline communism. A heavenly discussion between Roy Bhaskar and David Graeber.’ Critical realism is a philosophical movement in the social sciences associated with the work of […]
‘Visions of Sustainable Economies’ Book Club: The Dawn of Everything – Part 3
Chapters 9-12 (pg 328-526) Thursday March 17 at 12:00 pm (Timezone: America/Chicago) Young Scholars Initiative Visions of Sustainable Economies – a Book Club Topic: The Dawn of Everything – Part 3 Time: March 17, 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 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 […]