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Reading Group: Mikhail Bakhtin’s book Rabelais. Session 4.
This is our long-awaited reading group on David Graeber’s favorite Mikhail Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World. We will discuss Chapter Two: The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais. 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 […]
Reading Group: Mikhail Bakhtin’s book Rabelais. Session 3.
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 mediaeval humour: pp. 96-103; on obscenity: pp.109-110; Rabelais and revolution: p. 119; on seriousness: pp. 122-124; on the belly: pp. 126-127; on the historicity of jokes: pp. 134-136; Rabelais’s […]
BOOK LAUNCH: ‘Cities Made Differently’ by DAVID GRAEBER & NIKA DUBROVSKY
Nika Dubrovsky will be at Housmans on December 6th to celebrate the publication of a marvelous new text, co-written with the late David Graeber, called Cities Made Differently. Joining Nika in conversation will the inimitable organiser and writer James Schneider. Full of playful graphics, provocative questions, and curious facts, this book asks what makes a city and how we […]
"There Was Never a West": Greg Yudin in conversation with Mirko Canevaro
The third discussion of Graeber’s essay “There Never Was a West”: A conversation between Greg Yudin and Mirko Canevaro, in the frame of “The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World…”. The third meeting of “The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World…” reading group, the last one of 2024, will be a conversation between sociologist Greg Yudin and […]
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
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 […]
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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.
The Origins of Modern Debt Politics in Greece and Rome – Reading Michael Hudson’s “The Collapse of Antiquity” Part 2
In the second session we take a look how debt crises arose in Sparta and try to apply David Graeber’s framework from Debt – The first 5000 years (mainly chapter 5 and chapter 9 – if anybody wants to check their notes). Suggested reading is the summery doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BrkeryoR_-gqstFs0WlIBhAFj3pzPwocS4HZBEcGtFI/edit?usp=sharing Suggested further reading are chapters two […]
Adrian Bowyer’s Lecture
The first event in the Brain Trust Lectures series On 28 Sep 2023, Brian Trust is hosting a lecture by the engineer and mathematician, inventor of the open source 3D printer that became the basis for most of the 3D printers in the world today – Adrian Bowyer.“We will not take the means of production away from […]
Housekeeping Committee/Mastodon Assembly
The first Housekeeping Committee meeting of the Museum of Care for this season! We’ll revisit the Mastodon project, and everyone is invited to join the discussion from 18:30 to 19:00 London time! Prior to that, at 18:00 learn more about Mastadon project here , we will have our regular Housekeeping Committee meeting. Register, please.