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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 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
Links to the articles and other media about Fight Club: “A discussion between Piketty and Hudson, convened in Graeber’s memory, is bound to be fascinating, and they don’t disappoint”.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 […]
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
Anti-Education: On the Future of Our Educational Institutions by Friedrich Nietzsche.
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
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 […]
The Dawn of Everything Reading Group: Chapter 1
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. Possible discussion questions: Chapter 11. The two […]