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Talk with Peter Sahlens about his book "Forest Rites: The War of the Demoiselles in Nineteenth-Century France."
Our first guest speaker on October 31, 2024 will be Peter Sahlens, the author of Forest Rites: The War of the Demoiselles in Nineteenth-Century France. We invite everyone to dress up for the occasion and to Zoom in from in-person parties. Since it will take place on October 31. Since the meeting will be held […]
"I Didn't Understand How Widespread Rape Was. Then the Penny Dropped": discussion with Dyan Neary
As part of The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World is … reading group DGI organising a series of talks. On September 2nd, we will meet to discuss David Graeber’s essay I Didn’t Understand How Widespread Rape Was. Then the Penny Dropped. We will be joined by Dyan Neary, a writer, journalist, academic and documentary […]
Discussion Circles: Living the Carnivalesque Way
The Museum of Care right after Carnival4David in the wake of his untimely death. The Memorial Carnival4David, which is the founding project of the Museum of Care (and, in turn, the David Graeber Institute), was set up to celebrate David’s life. Since then, carnival has been a recurring topic of the DGI and the Museum of Care’s […]
Discussion Circles: Technology as a Social Relationship
The institute’s mission is to explore how technology can help create a system where essential resources—like food, education, energy, and medicine—can be produced and distributed freely. That is, the DGI in St. Vincent seeks to support the production of intellectually intensive, not labour-intensive technology. We are looking for technologies, traditional and cutting-edge, that are centred on […]
Discussion Circles: Who is David Graeber? Why are we in Saint Vincent?
The iniaugural discussion of the Discussion Circle series led and facilitated by the David Graeber Institute in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Nika Dubrovsky, Steve Keen, Vassily Pigounides and Steven Bachelor will give short talks on David Graeber’s life, work, and activism, including his research in Madagascar, and introducing David’s archive as a core resource […]
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Fetish and Value
“When I conceived the idea of writing my own ‘Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value’ in the late 1990s, I originally … imagined its appearance would be followed by irate critiques from many of the principals insisting I had got their core arguments wrong, and a flurry of productive debates. Nothing of the sort ensued.” […]
Housekeeping Committee
This is a group of people who assist room curators in taking care of their rooms.If you have the time and interest to help someone realize their vision, their educational efforts, please join us. We will also be discussing the development of a critical project: the Mastadon server, aimed towards creating a publicly run social […]
The Origins of Modern Debt Politics in Greece and Rome – Reading Michael Hudson’s “The Collapse of Antiquity”, Part 5
Our reading group on “The Origins of Modern Debt Politics in Greece & Rome – Reading Michael Hudson’s ‘The Collapse of Antiquity”, moderated by Christian Walter, has been meeting regularly since September and will finish on January 25 at 20:00 (London time) with a very special event. Please join us for the last session with economist […]
Bullshit Jobs, Part 3
Is your job killing you? Do you feel the crush of spiritual violence when at work? Are you a duct-taper, box-ticker, taskmaster, flunky, or goon? We’ve got the place for you. Join us. Bullshit Jobs: A Reading Group, where your humanity will be restored. In this session, we will talk about different critical stances on […]
Vygotsky, Play, and Experience
Kyrill Potapov will give a short intro to the thought of Vygotsky and we will discuss “On the Problem of the Psychology of the Actor’s Creative Work.“ In this short text, Lev Vygotsky explores the relationship between the experience of an actor and an audience, their social context and action we see on stage. The text […]
Why Do We Play? The Origins of Self-Consciousness, Freedom, and Morality, Part 2
‘Play as a principle of nature does not necessarily mean adopting any sort of milky utopian view. The play principle can help explain why sex is fun, but it can also explain why cruelty is fun. As anyone who has watched a cat play with a mouse can attest, a lot of animal play is […]
Housekeeping Committee
This is a group of people who assist room curators in taking care of their rooms.If you have the time and interest to help someone realize their vision, their educational efforts, please join us. We will also be discussing the development of a critical project: the Mastadon server, aimed towards creating a publicly run social […]
Bullshit Jobs, Part 2
Is your job killing you? Do you feel the crush of spiritual violence when at work? Are you a duct-taper, box-ticker, taskmaster, flunky, or goon? We’ve got the place for you. Join us. Bullshit Jobs: A Reading Group, where your humanity will be restored. Capitalism and Communism: Where Bullshit Jobs Prevail How, in the Soviet […]
Climate Change: Is it a Beat Up?; Or Will It Beat Us Up?; And Is There a Way to Beat It? (Brain Trust lecture #2)
Economists like Nobel Prize winner William Nordhaus claim that global warming of 3.8C by 2100 will reduce GDP by a mere 5 percent. Climate scientists like Tim Lenton describe 3°C of warming as “catastrophic”. Who should you trust? Come along and find out from the author of Debunking Economics, Prof Steve Keen. Also learn how […]
Roy Bhaskar’s ‘Enlightened Common Sense’ and ‘From Science to Emancipation’ / How to Take Over the “David and his Philosophers”
In the first part of this session we’ll discuss the relationship between Roy Bhaskar’s dialectics (outlined in chapter 6 of Enlightened Common Sense) and David Graeber’s discussion and use of Marx in Towards an Anthropological Theory of Value (page 100, page 69, and other mentions of Bhaskar in the text). In the second part, building […]