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Carnival4David 2026 working group meeting
This is a working group meeting for the preparation of the Carnival4David: Nairobi, London and Saint Vincent. If you want to join us, please, write an email. Here are the notes from the previous meetings.
the Survival Kit Collection
Hi everyone, Happy 2026! We want to bring everyone together who’s been working on or thinking about the Survival Kit Collection. It’s been a busy year, and it feels like time to actually talk to each other and figure out what happens next. The Survival Kit Collection brings together artists, engineers, and activists working on […]
Poetic technologies can be dark, brutal, dangerous—and that’s fine. Freedom isn’t safe. Bureaucratic technologies promise safety through perfect, eternal rules. They deliver gulags, surveillance states, bureaucratic nightmares. Without exception. Speaking at #39C3 about the Museum of Care and the David Graeber Institute — survival kit collections, abandoned ships as museums and DGU Uni in East Africa. But […]
Poetic Technologies and an open-source university
Universities have become debt traps. Education is no longer about learning—it’s financial control dressed up as opportunity. Students graduate with crushing loans. Professors work precarious jobs. Administration consumes budgets that should fund actual learning. Knowledge is sold, credentialed, gatekept. But what if we could reimagine this completely? Not reform universities—redesign them from scratch. In this […]
Debt, Empire, and the Future: Dialogue with Michael Hudson and Ann Pettifor
On December 19th, 2025 Michael Hudson will be joined by Ann Pettifor as part of our ongoing dialogues on Debt, Empire and the future. Together, they will discuss: These dialogues continue Graeber’s and Hudson’s shared commitment to exposing injustice and imagining new possibilities for global solidarity and economic transformation.The link to live stream is here. Don’t forget to […]
Colonial Histories: Radha D’Souza on the Ghadar movement
“The important thing to bear in mind is that change could happen and happen suddenly. Revolutions in history have always been unexpected events; they have always come as a surprise.”-Radha D’Souza in conversation with Jonas Staal. Radha D’Souza is a Professor of International Law, Development and Conflict Studies at the University of Westminster, London (UK). She is […]
Colonial Histories: monthly lectures
In Debt: The First 5000 Years, David Graeber wrote that the so-called “debts” of the Global South to the North are, in fact, a reversal of justice — it is the North that owes an unpayable debt to the South. His anthropological project aimed to expose these hidden power relations and to envision humanity based […]
Survival Kit Collection: Assembly at Saint Vincent
On technology, art, education. Towards a practical guide for avoiding the upcoming societal collapse On December 11th 1 pm NY, 6 pm UK time we will host a hybrid online/offline meeting to discuss educational, artistic, and technological ideas: the creation of a Survival Kit Collection. If you would like to participate, email us at info@davidgraeber.org or info@davidgraeber.institute to get […]
Survival Kit Collection: Assembly at Saint Vincent. A little bit about Spirulina
Yesterday at DGI in Saint Vincent we talked about how the ideas of the industrial NGO’s complex differs from the ideas of Survival Kit Collection. Survival Kit Collection is trying to create a network of independent, autonomous zones that support one another. The main thing NGOs do is create dependency on themselves. They bring food, […]
Michael Hudson on the end of capitalism as we know it
We are pleased that Michael Hudson will join us to talk about Changing world order/Colonialism and the end of capitalism as we know it on December 10, 2025, at 6 PM London time/1 PM New York time. Link to the live stream is here. Subscribe and turn on notifications for our youtube channel to keep updated with all our streams.
Poetic technologies with Cory Doctorow and Brian Eno
“By poetic technologies I refer to the use of rational and technical means to bring wild fantasies to reality. Poetic technologies, so understood, are as old as civilization.” — David Graeber We are pleased that Cory Doctorow and Brian Eno will join us to discuss poetic technologies on December 8, 2025. Cory Doctorow has worked for a long time at the Electronic […]
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大卫·格雷伯研究所开幕与“气候紧急状态”公寓 / 艺术全球展
大卫·格雷伯研究所将于2022年10月29日当地时间晚间7点，在伦敦亚历山大路住宅区（Rowley Way）的 52 Boundary Rd, London NW8 0HJ 宣布开幕，并举办首届“气候紧急状态”公寓艺术展（APT/ART – CLIMATE EMERGENCY），世界各地都会同时举办此次展览的平行展。
AptArt around the World: Celebrating the launch of the David Graeber Institute.
At 19:00hrs (London time), October 29, 2022, the David Graeber Institute opened with its inaugural Apartment Art Exhibition APT / ART – CLIMATE EMERGENCY at 52 Boundary Rd, London NW8 0HJ (Rowley Way) simultaneously with parallel exhibitions taking place all over the world. The David Graeber Institute opens two years after the death of David […]
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber – Reading Group Part 1
This inaugural meeting of the Debt reading group introduces the book and present a special guest. More details will be coming soon on Chapter distribution.Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor.
David Graeber Philosophical Series: Peirce, with Federico Montanari
The David Graeber Philosophical series will resume after the holidays with a lecture about Charles Sanders Peirce, which will be presented by Federico Montanari and is entitled ‘Peirce, Semiotics, back to David Graeber. Perspectives for a revolutionary study of signs?’. In this seminar I would like to explore the interest and possible path linking David […]
Discussion of Walter Benjamin’s “A Critique of Violence” – Part 2
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, […]
‘THERE NEVER WAS A WEST’, PART 5, BY DAVID GRAEBER
For this fifth and final edition 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. 362-368 or from Part V to end. We welcome presentations on any aspect of this text, be it 1 minute or 10 minutes. Like a democratic university […]
‘There Never Was a West’, Part 4, by David Graeber
For this fourth edition 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. 355-362 or from Traditions as Acts of Endless Refoundation until Part V. We welcome presentations on any aspect of this text, be it 1 minute or 10 minutes. […]
‘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 […]