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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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The Dawn of Everything Reading Group: Chapter 10
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.
‘Visions of Sustainable Economies’ Book Club: The Dawn of Everything – Part 1
Chapters 1-4 (pp 1-163) February 17, 2022, 12:00 PM (Timezone: America/Chicago) Young Scholars Initiative Visions of Sustainable Economies – a Book Club Topic: The Dawn of Everything – Part 1 Time: February 17, 2022, 12:00 (Timezone: America/Chicago) Register to join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: here DESCRIPTION OF THIS PART OF THE SERIES […]
David Graeber Philosophical Series: Spinoza, with Maxime Rovère
We are organising, under the patronage of Museum of Care and the David Graeber Institute, a series of public lectures on the philosophical foundations of the work of David Graeber, whose death in September 2020 was an enormous shock and left a void in anthropology and far beyond the discipline. The starting point for our […]
‘This Is Not History’, with Marcus Rediker
With the participation of Marcus Rediker as keynote speaker. In this webinar, we will introduce the concept of history from below. Based on the history of piracy, we will identify the reasons why this bottom-up approach has not been welcomed and what could be done in the future to foster such approach. This event will […]
The Dawn of Everything Reading Group: Chapter 9
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.
The Dawn of Everything Reading Group: Chapter 8 part 2
Spending more time on Chapter 8 “Imaginary Cities,” we continue to explore how different groups of humans decided to group themselves into what we might deem cities. There are examples of modern forager societies existing on two scales of imagination — the smaller-than-Dunbar-number level of kith and kin, and the imaginary huge structures in the […]
Spinoza Reading Group: Tractatus Politicus Chapters 1-5
Facilitation by Simona
The Dawn of Everything Reading Group: Chapter 8 part 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. Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor
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 […]