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Debt, Empire, and the Future: Dialogues with Michael Hudson | part 4
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 […]
Debt, Empire, and the Future: Dialogues with Michael Hudson | part 3
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Spirulina Brainstorming Session / The Survival Kit Collection
We’ve just completed our first spirulina workshop in Saint Vincent, and we’d love to continue this work—not only by creating practical farms or supporting home-scale production across the Caribbean, but also by launching a broader campaign to explain why spirulina matters. Our goal is to shift spirulina from the elite health food market into something […]
Debt, Empire, and the Future: Michael Hudson & Devika Dutt in conversation with David Adler
The first part of this series will take part on May 2, 12pm NYC / 5pm London time. The discussion will be streamed online on the DGI Youtube channel. Don’t forget to subscribe to get a notification when we go live. If one starts poking at the history of debt, what one discovers is not […]
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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 […]
Reading Group: Mikhail Bakhtin’s book Rabelais. Session 5
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. For this fifth session, please read Chapter 2, pages 145 to 170 (pdf in English below). Please follow these […]
Pilot Visual Assembly in Amsterdam
Where: Amsterdam, OBA OosterdokLanguages: Dutch, English9+ (parents & other siblings welcome!) Artist and writer Nika Dubrovsky invites children aged 9 to 12 to join a Visual Assembly to collectively imagine, draw the map, and describe the rules of life in a City of the Future. Together, we will imagine and draw a map of the […]
David Graeber’s Birthday talks
David Graeber’s birthday takes place on February 12. To celebrate, we will host events in both New York and London, with James Schneider and Sophie Scott-Brown speaking that will be shown live via Zoom. In London, they will speak at Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Rd, N1 9DY at 6pm GMT. There will be a talk […]
Cities Made Differently: 2nd Visual Assembly at MayDay Space, NYC
On February 4th Nika Dubrovsky, Leopoldo Zampiccoli, Miles Grant, Klea Kalia and Henry Davis will facilitate a Visual Assembly at MayDay Space . This Assembly will be a continuation of the gathering held at the Interference Archive in November 2024. This time, we will not start from scratch but build upon the work already created—filled […]
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. This 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:
Against Economics / Michael Hudson
Zoom meeting with the economist Michael Hudson to discuss David Graeber’s work. On January 9th, we will hold a Zoom meeting about the essay, Against Economics! The economist Michael Hudson will give a talk discussing Neo-Liberalism, modern Capitalism, and austerity in relation to David Graeber’s essay ‘Against Economics.’ Hudson is a renowned American economist and […]