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Reading Group: Mikhail Bakhtin’s book Rabelais. Session 11
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. Please follow these steps to subscribe to our mailing list:
Reading Group: Mikhail Bakhtin’s book Rabelais. Session 10
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. Please follow these steps to subscribe to our mailing list:
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 […]
Reading Group: Mikhail Bakhtin’s book Rabelais. Session 9
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. Please follow these steps to subscribe to our mailing list:
Reading Group: Mikhail Bakhtin’s book Rabelais. Session 8
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. Please follow these steps to subscribe to our mailing list:
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, […]
Reading Group: Mikhail Bakhtin’s book Rabelais. Session 7
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. Please follow these steps to subscribe to our mailing list:
Exclusive Influencer VIP Public Space Event
We’re in public space in downtown Manhattan for the first time! Our reach is expanding more than ever before. We have a VIP party but there’s good news: because you’re on this mailing list you can get access to the HIGHEST LEVEL of VIP EXPERIENCE simply by replying to this email and saying hello! See […]
Islands in the Future / Michael Hudson, Ann Pettifor, Yanis Varoufakis
On April 14, the University of West Indies will host the final public event of the DGI April Gathering in St Vincent. Yanis Varoufakis and Michael Hudson will join us for a discussion on debt and its implications for Global South–North relations. Their conversation will be facilitated by Ann Pettifor. Share on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/davidgraeberinst.bsky.social/post/3lmovy4glws2zShare on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/660267483406947Share on X (Twitter): https://x.com/Graeber_social/status/1911376422095958477Share on […]
Islands in the Future / Open-source technology workshops
On April 11, the DGI team will visit the St Vincent and the Grenadines prison to continue building our collaboration on open-source technologies workshops for inmates. We will have presentations from: — Adrian Bowyer, engineer, founder of the RepRap project — a talk on self-replicating 3D printers and the future of 3D printing; — Igor […]
Islands in the Future / Spirulina dinner
The discussion on April 10th during the DGI April Gathering in St Vincent will be followed by a dinner to celebrate the arrival of spirulina superfood on our island. Spirulina is an amazing blue-green algae packed with protein, vitamins, and minerals. It grows in warm freshwater and is easy to cultivate in small, eco-friendly set ups. This superfood isn’t […]
Islands in the Future / Museum of Care & the Survival Kit Collection
We are living through a time of profound change. To advance the legacy of David Graeber, we ask: What could a truly progressive and broadly supported project for the future look like? Alongside these conversations, we will also be working on the grand opening of the Museum of Care in St. Vincent. This is not just […]
Bloomberg, Giuliani, and Property Investors vs. The People of New York: Street Fight
We’re back in public space! Bring your favorite 90s outfit! t’s finally being settled. For too long this battle has been one-sided. Now is the time to determine who will be in charge of the future of New York. Join our critically acclaimed mugging 102 course (beginner friendly) and use it to push back against an […]
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 […]
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Fetish and Value, part 2
“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.” […]
Pedagogies of Care, part 1
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 will be designed around the legacies of historical figures – from Francisco Ferrer Guardia, Asja Lacis, Bertolt […]
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 […]
Seminars of Care, Part 2
Elke Krasny and Nika Dubrovksy will continue Seminars of Care in February 2024. Following the first session of Seminars of Care on November 19, The David Graeber Institute will continue the series with the second session on February 24 at 18:00 (London time). The meeting will explore Marxist feminists’ analyses of caring labor and David Graeber’s proposal to integrate […]
Bullshit Jobs, Part 4
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 […]
David Graeber’s Birthday: Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
On David Graeber’s birthday, this reading group will reflect on Graeber’s most widely read book, Fragments of An Anarchist Anthropology. The meeting will be hosted by James Schneider.
The Virtues of Diogenes, Part 1: World Building, featuring Anni Kajanus
A three-part series exploring the societal implications of interpersonal relations through the character of Diogenes and a merry band of legends. The question is, do you have the virtues to succeed at this quest? This will be part role play, part reading group where we will be introduced to a handful of real and mythological […]
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 […]