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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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The Dawn of Everything Reading Group: Chapter 7
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 is divorce?” with Silvia Federici
Join us on December 8 pm Berlin time for the discussion about “what is divorce?” with Silvia Federici, author of Caliban and the Witches.Moderated by Veronica Davidov as a part of the event at Studio 1 Künstlerhaus Bethanien! You are warmly and proudly invited to “RE VON DER POESIE IM RECHT”, featuring —- a sound […]
The Dawn of Everything Reading Group: Chapter 6
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
Fight Club: The Great Debt Debate at Bard College (Post-Game Q&A)
by Hannah Arendt Center, Museum of Care & EDI (<– click on this and follow to register) Wed, December 1, 2021 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM CST
The Great Debt Debate Q&A
The First Fight between Michael Hudson and Thomas Piketty about thenature of Debt was held on the 10th anniversary of the edition of DavidGraeber’s 5000 Years of Debt. Michael Hudson and Thomas Piketty were seeking answers to the burning questions of our time. The fight had so many rounds that we didn’t have time to […]
KARAOKE Reading Group. Theme: Debt
The second Karaoke night is coming, and this time there’s a theme: ‘debt’! And by this we mean Debt: The First 5,000 Years, as it is the ten-year anniversary of publication. So the concept of the Karaoke reading group remains the same, but your chosen text must be from this work. If you want to […]
The Dawn of Everything Reading Group: Chapter 5
Thank you everyone who came! I found several questions fascinating and worth exploring father. 1) Zinaida Vasilieva notion about “slavery as a technology of care / social death through care”here is about it in the 5th chapter: Hierarchy and property may derive fromnotions of the sacred, but the most brutal forms of exploitation havetheir origins in the most […]
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 […]