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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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Material Photographies Reading Group
curated by Conservation Lab The Material Photographies Research Group meets regularly online to explore critical thinking/making around the photograph in its multiple forms and dynamic manifestations—to welcome new ways of thinking and celebrate the increasingly complex photosphere we inhabit. Next meeting Wednesday, November 1, 2023, 12:30 pm London Time. We will be reading the following: 1. Jean […]
DEBT IN DISCUSSION WITH MICHAEL HUDSON
Our reading group on “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” has been meeting twice a month since October and is now coming to an end with two final meetings left. On May 18, the Museum of Care invited an economist Michael Hudson to talk about debt and many other subjects we’ve explored throughout the reading group. […]
Book Launch: Self in the World: Connecting Life’s Extremes
If you are joining the book launch online, please use the link below on the 18th of May 2023 at 11:30. FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOOK: https://histanthro.org/news/self-in-the-world-by-keith-hart/ INTERVIEW WITH KEITH HART: https://bordersliteratureonline.net/globaldetails/keith_hart ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Born in Manchester, Keith Hart (1943–) studied classics and social anthropology at Cambridge University. His research focuses on economic […]
ROY BHASKAR’S ‘ENLIGHTENED COMMON SENSE’ AND ‘FROM SCIENCE TO EMANCIPATION’ – READING GROUP PART 7
One of the most influential voices in the philosophy of science and a political revolutionary David Graeber about Roy Bhaskar The recording of this meeting has been archived. You can access the text we discussed here. On this session we started reading Chapter 5 of Enlightened Common Sense.
Mastodon Assembly
Unlike other Mastodon servers, my idea is to try to leave the rules as open as possible and have ongoing discussions about them. I see our Mastodon server as an online laboratory for creating and recreating social relationships. We invite everyone to join us for this discussion. We hope it will lead to ongoing conversation, […]
A Talk on Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov “Personality and collective” with Kyrill Potapov and Corinna Lotz
“…The power of personality is always individually expressedas the power of the collective, that “ensemble” of individuals which were ideally represented, the power of the individualized universality of aspiration, needs, goals controlling it. This is the power of the historically accumulated energy of many individuals, concentrated in it, focused, and therefore capable of breaking the resistance of […]
26.04.2023 Houskeeping Committee
Agenda: Discussion of a new reading group with Christian Walter Pirate Enlightenment panels Brain Trust preparation Two last meetings of the Debt reading group: Debt in discussion Mastodon Assembly preparation Gestures of Care discussion War and Peace Aptart exhibition Talk on Collectivity with Viktor Misiano
DEBT: THE FIRST 5,000 YEARS BY DAVID GRAEBER – READING GROUP PART 13
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor
ROY BHASKAR’S ‘ENLIGHTENED COMMON SENSE’ AND ‘FROM SCIENCE TO EMANCIPATION’ – READING GROUP PART 6
One of the most influential voices in the philosophy of science and a political revolutionaryDavid Graeber about Roy Bhaskar This session we will start reading Chapter 4 of Enlightened Common Sense. The recordong of this meeting has been archived. You can access the text we discussed here.
Rojava Film Commune Charity Screening: The Lonely Trees (2017)
Donation Details Available below Museum of Care is proud to invite you to take part on the 12th of April at 8 PM London time to a screening of The Lonely Trees (2017). The event is held to share with the broad network of MoC the amazing work of the Rojava Film Commune and to […]