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Reading Group: Mikhail Bakhtin’s book Rabelais. Session 11
This is our long-awaited reading group on David Graeber’s favorite Mikhail Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World. 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 our mailing list:
Reading Group: Mikhail Bakhtin’s book Rabelais. Session 10
This is our long-awaited reading group on David Graeber’s favorite Mikhail Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World. 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 our mailing list:
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 […]
Reading Group: Mikhail Bakhtin’s book Rabelais. Session 9
This is our long-awaited reading group on David Graeber’s favorite Mikhail Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World. 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 our mailing list:
Reading Group: Mikhail Bakhtin’s book Rabelais. Session 8
This is our long-awaited reading group on David Graeber’s favorite Mikhail Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World. 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 our mailing list:
Visual Assembly at Festival dei Matti, Venice
Between the 23rd and 25th of May, Nika Dubrovsky will hold a Visual Assembly at the Festival dei Matti in Venice, by involving speakers and participants in a conversation around this year’s theme of care and conflict. Held every year since 2009 in Venice, the ‘Festival dei Matti’ hosts a series of debates, lectures, interviews, […]
Reading Group: Mikhail Bakhtin’s book Rabelais. Session 7
This is our long-awaited reading group on David Graeber’s favorite Mikhail Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World. 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 our mailing list:
Exclusive Influencer VIP Public Space Event
We’re in public space in downtown Manhattan for the first time! Our reach is expanding more than ever before. We have a VIP party but there’s good news: because you’re on this mailing list you can get access to the HIGHEST LEVEL of VIP EXPERIENCE simply by replying to this email and saying hello! See […]
Islands in the Future / Michael Hudson, Ann Pettifor, Yanis Varoufakis
On April 14, the University of West Indies will host the final public event of the DGI April Gathering in St Vincent. Yanis Varoufakis and Michael Hudson will join us for a discussion on debt and its implications for Global South–North relations. Their conversation will be facilitated by Ann Pettifor. Share on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/davidgraeberinst.bsky.social/post/3lmovy4glws2zShare on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/660267483406947Share on X (Twitter): https://x.com/Graeber_social/status/1911376422095958477Share on […]
Islands in the Future / Open-source technology workshops
On April 11, the DGI team will visit the St Vincent and the Grenadines prison to continue building our collaboration on open-source technologies workshops for inmates. We will have presentations from: — Adrian Bowyer, engineer, founder of the RepRap project — a talk on self-replicating 3D printers and the future of 3D printing; — Igor […]
Islands in the Future / Spirulina dinner
The discussion on April 10th during the DGI April Gathering in St Vincent will be followed by a dinner to celebrate the arrival of spirulina superfood on our island. Spirulina is an amazing blue-green algae packed with protein, vitamins, and minerals. It grows in warm freshwater and is easy to cultivate in small, eco-friendly set ups. This superfood isn’t […]
Islands in the Future / Museum of Care & the Survival Kit Collection
We are living through a time of profound change. To advance the legacy of David Graeber, we ask: What could a truly progressive and broadly supported project for the future look like? Alongside these conversations, we will also be working on the grand opening of the Museum of Care in St. Vincent. This is not just […]
Bloomberg, Giuliani, and Property Investors vs. The People of New York: Street Fight
We’re back in public space! Bring your favorite 90s outfit! t’s finally being settled. For too long this battle has been one-sided. Now is the time to determine who will be in charge of the future of New York. Join our critically acclaimed mugging 102 course (beginner friendly) and use it to push back against an […]
Michael Hudson Lecture series / Money, Debt & and how they shape our collective political imagination
On April 4th, Michael Hudson will address questions raised during his previous talk at the David Graeber Institute. This discussion is part of the Michael Hudson Lecture Series, which explores the nature of money and how today’s political landscape drives a profound economic shift. As the long-standing tenets of neo-liberal capitalism crumble, we must ask: What comes next? This event […]
Visual Assemblies and the Units of Care / Brainstorming session
On March 27th we will hold an online gathering for a brainstorming session about the new project — Care Units, or Units of Care, which is meant to be less of a drawing project and more of a large-scale visual public art initiative. We imagine printing a huge map — possibly 10 meters wide — […]
Democracy In Ancient Greece - Mirko Canevaro
We are holding a Zoom meeting to discuss David Graeber’s work with Mirko Canevaro who is the Professor of Greek History at the University of Edinburgh. The meeting will be related to David Graeber’s work: There Never Was A West, with a focus on the myths surrounding Democracy in Ancient Greece. We previously held in […]
Finance Is Just Another Word for Other People’s Debts / Steve Keen
We are holding a Zoom meeting to discuss David Graeber’s work with the economist and professor Steve Keen. The focus will be David Graeber’s work: Finance Is Just Another Word for Other People’s Debts. This piece was originally published in 2014 in which David Graeber wrote about Finance Capitalism and how it evolves around the […]
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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 […]
‘Going In and Out of each other’s Bodies’ by Maurice Bloch
Following on from our last session which reflected on David Graeber’s text on the ‘Monastic Self,’ our next session on 5th August will be a discussion of Maurice Bloch’s paper on ‘Going In and Out of Each Other’s Bodies.’ (Please don’t get too excited because we’re only referring to neuronal connection here.) Links to Bloch’s […]
Notes: 27.05.2021 Assembly
Dear all, here is a video from our yesterday’s Assembly I am eternally grateful to the students of the Critical Studies Department, Andris Brinkmanis, Zasha Colah and Archive Milano, who will be curating the Museum of Care for the next two or three months.Our programmer, Oleg Kostishin, is sharing access with them so they can run […]
‘Communist Proteins’ with Alexei Yurchak
A special group this week, as we will be welcoming Alexei Yurchak, who will present his essay ‘Communist Proteins: Lenin’s Skin, Astrobiology, and the Origin of Life.’ Here is the link to text. Alexei Yurchak is a Professor of Anthropology at Berkeley. He is the author of Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: […]
Notes: 22.04.2021 Assembly
Museum of Care projects, a new proposal for how to curate Museum of Care. Some thoughts about it here. 00:19:05 Mark : John, I’m not seeing the pdf in chat. Tx00:19:19 Mark : *link00:20:16 Yash Lad: I downloaded it on my laptop and and shared again — @Mark can you see it?00:24:36 John Fass: file […]