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Discussion Circles/Seminar of Care: How to Replace Production and Consumption with Care and Freedom
For the closing event of the “Discussion Circles”, we will be joined by the renowned feminist activist and author Silvia Federici. This Seminar of Care will focus specifically on the issues of contemporary migration and neo-colonialism and will be hosted by James Schneider, an English political organiser and writer, and Nika Dubrovsky (artist and co-founder of the […]
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 […]
Pedagogies of Care
Hosted and curated by Andris Brinkmanis, senior lecturer and the course Leader of BA in Painting and Visual Arts at NABA in Milan and Visiting Professor for the Art Academy of Latvia Curatorial Course, this series of encounters is designed around the legacies of historical figures – from Francisco Ferrer Guardia, Asja Lacis, Bertolt Brecht […]
Housekeeping Committee
The final Housekeeping Committee meeting this season! We will review the past events and discuss future plans of the Museum of Care. If you have the time and interest to help someone realize their vision, their educational efforts, please join us – just write us an email.
Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World Is… reading group will be meeting throughout 2024-2025, starting in September 2024. We will be joined by curators of the Museum of Care and guest speakers; and each meeting will be dedicated to one of David’s essays featured in the collection.On May 23rd, we will host a pre-launch […]
Fetish and Value, part 4
In the previous sessions we have covered the different aspects of David Graeber’s essay “Fetishism and Social Creativity“. This time we will follow David Graeber into his inquiry into “The very idea of consumption“. We will ask – how did this happen that the word used to describe the deadly disease came to be used […]
Pedagogies of Care, part 3
The third encounter of ‘Pedagogies of Care’ series will host artists and activists Mariette Schiltz and Edna Gee, both closely linked with ‘Isola Art Center’ and Isola Pepe Verde projects in Milan, Italy. ‘Isola Art Center’ was a free experimental and dynamic platform that combined internationally acclaimed contemporary art, emerging young art, and theoretical research with […]
The Virtues of Diogenes, Part 3: The Quest for Graeber's Golden Waistcoat
Building on the first two sessions, in this third session we will review what we have learnt about the world of Diogene’s philosophy, why it was rated by Graeber and focus on what it means for how we navigate theory and practice. For Diogene’s Cynics and later the Stoics, the mythical manifestation of how to […]
Fetish and Value, part 3
“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.” […]
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Seminars of Care
In 2020, David Graeber and several LSE students set up a reading group devoted to the themes of care and caring. The aim of this group was to create a space for discussion and reflection on work that was then (and still is) little integrated into the classic corpus of anthropological teaching. Between February and […]
Bullshit Jobs, Part 1
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. Facilitated by Steven Bachelor, This will be a monthly series, every […]
Bullshit Jobs
“It once came into my head that if it were desired to reduce a man to nothing, to punish him atrociously, to crush him in such a manner that the most hardened murdered would tremble at such a punishment and take fright beforehand, it would only be necessary to give to his work such a […]
ROY BHASKAR’S ‘ENLIGHTENED COMMON SENSE’ AND ‘FROM SCIENCE TO EMANCIPATION’ – READING GROUP PART 10
This meeting we will discuss the philosophy of meta-reality. The suggested reading is Enlightened Common Sense, chapter 7, but please bring whatever resources you find helpful.
Pavel Arsenyev Presents the Latest Issues of [Translit]
Founded in 2005, [Translit] is an independent small press publishing and a literary and theoretical journal presenting a community of artists, poets, philosophers and humanities scholars. While the editorial team was working on them, they became divided – one group remained in Russia, and the other established itself in what they called the “E-position”, signifying […]
THE ORIGINS OF MODERN DEBT POLITICS IN GREECE AND ROME – READING MICHAEL HUDSON’S “THE COLLAPSE OF ANTIQUITY” PART 3
“Personal wealth brings with it public harm,” stated Theognis of Megara. A sentiment followed by Solon who admonished those who destroy the city “on account of their desire for wealth”. Let’s look at how the (reluctant) struggle for democracy and debt control played out in Athens – from Solon to Pericles. In the third session […]
The State We’re In (Part 1): What is the State?
Across the world people often try to use the powers they have been granted by the state to bring about social change. And sometimes they strive to go beyond the state to create autonomous enclaves. In this session facilitated by Corinna Lotz, Paul Feldman will discuss what is the contemporary state. A brief summary of some of David Graeber’s […]
Housekeeping Committee / Mastodon Assembly
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 […]
ROY BHASKAR’S ‘ENLIGHTENED COMMON SENSE’ AND ‘FROM SCIENCE TO EMANCIPATION’ – READING GROUP PART 9
“One of the most influential voices in the philosophy of science and a political revolutionary”– David Graeber This meeting we will discuss dialectical critical realism. Here are the suggested resources: Enlightened Common Sense, chapter 6 The Formation of Critical Realism: chapter 6 Register here.