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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 […]
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 […]
Benjamin Paloff on Bakhtin's adventures
After celebrating the 5th Carnival for David, we will revive and expand the Museum of Care’s reading group on Mikhail Bakhtin. This group has always been about exploring Bakhtin’s ideas on dialogue, carnival, and collective imagination — themes that continue to inspire us. We’ll start with a lecture by Benjamin Paloff on the 14th of November 2025 4PM […]
Public talk : Sharing time: the work of art in a possible World -Tim Ingold
“In the world of possibilities, every work begins with an idea in mind, and ends in its realisation. This is work that cuts across. But the creativity of the possible world is like the wind: it carries on through. Its creativity is no less than that of life itself.”-Tim Ingold Tim Ingold redefines art not […]
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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 […]