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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 […]
Events list
Reading Group: Mikhail Bakhtin’s book Rabelais. Session 2.
This is our long-awaited reading group on David Graeber’s favorite Mikhail Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World. We will discuss chapter One: Rabelais in the History of Laughter:on Rabelais: pp. 59-61; on laughter: pp. 66-73; on the ‘feast of fools’: pp. 74-75; pp. 78-82; on parody: pp. 87-95. These meetings are limited in number. The group is […]
Pedagogies of Care: The Swamp School
The next encounter of ‘Pedagogies of Care’ series’ be on 14th of November, we will host Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas from MIT. In conversation with Andris Brinkmanis, they will present their interdisciplinary artistic practice, focusing in particular on their ongoing project The Swamp School. To register for the event, please click here. Nomeda & Gediminas […]
Cities Made Differently: Visual Assembly with Interference Archive
Come out to the Archive for a hands-on workshop, facilitated by Nika Dubrovsky, inspired by the release of Nika and late anthropologist and activist David Graeber’s new book Cities Made Differently. The workshop will be held at Interference Archive in New York, Friday, November 8, 6 – 9pm EST. It offers a space for people of […]
“There Was Never a West”: dicsussion with Marcus Rediker
The second discussion of David Graeber’s essay “There Never Was a West”, led and moderated by Marcus Rediker, in the frame of “The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World…” reading group. In this session, we will be joined by Marcus Rediker, a historian, writer, teacher, and activist. Register here. View the full program of “The Ultimate Hidden […]
Talk with Peter Sahlins about his book “Forest Rites: The War of the Demoiselles in Nineteenth-Century France.”
On the 31st October, we host a meeting with the author Peter Sahlins about Mikhail Bakhtin’s book, Rabelais as well as about David Graeber’s new book, The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World. Peter Sahlins is the author of, Forest Rites: The War of the Demoiselles in Nineteenth-Century France, which tells the history of the The […]
Reading Group: Mikhail Bakhtin’s book Rabelais. Part 1: “On collectivity and the body. “
This is our long-awaited reading group on David Graeber’s favorite Mikhail Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World. We will discuss: introduction: pp.1-12; on collectivity and the body: pp. 18-23; on the grotesque and the mask: pp. 39-40. Since the meeting will be held on October 31st, which is Halloween, we invite everyone to dress up for the occasion […]
reading group on Material Temporalities
The Soviet Temporalities Room is opening its autumn season with a reading group on Material Temporalities. Our first session is on Tuesday, October 8, at 4pm BST, curated byJulie Deschepper. We will discuss a volume that Julie has just co-edited, titled Time and Material Culture. Rethinking Soviet Temporalities (July 2024). The volume offers an exploration into the temporalities of Soviet […]
Enshittification; Was There Ever an Old, Good Internet? / Cory Doctorow
In this session of “The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World…” reading group ( OCTOBER 3 / 2024, 8 pm GMT), we will be joined by Cory Doctorow and discuss Enshittification. Enshittification: Was There Ever an Old, Good Internet?It sure feels like the internet used to be good. What made it good? Was it better people? Better […]
“I Didn’t Understand How Widespread Rape Was. Then the Penny Dropped”: discussion with Dyan Neary Sep 2, 2024 08:00 PM (GTM)
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 […]