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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
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 […]
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
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
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 […]
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 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
“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 2
Militant Care. Pedagogies in action. A conversation with Contrafilé Group The second meeting of Pedagogies of Care project will host a conversation between Brazil based artists and activists Contrafilé Group (currently, Cibele Lucena, Joana Zatz Mussi, and Rafael Leona), Andris Brinkmanis, senior lecturer and the course Leader of BA in Painting and Visual Arts at NABA in […]
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 Virtues of Diogenes, Part 2: Character Creation
In the second session, we will explore the world of Diogene’s philosophy by creatively comparing Diogenes Cynics with his contemporary Xenophon’s Cynegeticus. We will speculate on both these dog-associated philosophies and imagine what they might tell us about the worlds and the ecologies they imply. We will be supported in this by anthropologist Avi KBH, […]
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.” […]
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Pirate Enlightenment: Ayça Çubukçu, Owen Jones & James Butler
We all know the European Enlightenment started in Geneva, or maybe Edinburgh or maybe Amsterdam. Well we’re all wrong. In Pirate Enlightenment (Allen Lane), anthropologist David Graeber presents a case for the intellectual underpinnings for the Enlightenment having started with the anarchic, mixed-race and radically egalitarian communities of pirates based around Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Sadly, […]
Roy Bhaskar’s ‘Enlightened Common Sense’ and ‘From Science to Emancipation’ – Reading Group Part 4
One of the most influential voices in the philosophy of science and a political revolutionaryDavid Graeber about Roy Bhaskar You can access the text here https://drive.google.com/drive/folder…
Reading Group on Walter Benjamin
We’re going to discuss an essay by Walter Benjamin The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction After reading Caroline Lillian Schopp’s excellent text about Franz Walther and drowning in texts about Beuys. We talked a lot with David about Beuys and tried to go to the exhibitions in Berlin to see his work. […]
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber – Reading Group Part 8
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor. We will be discussing chapter 9. Bring your favorite quotes and/or related material.
25.01.2023 Housekeeping Committee
Agenda:– New rooms/new projects. Inviting room curators to a housekeeping committee – 15 minutes– Preparing for the Pirate Enlightenment presentation– Carnival in 2023. Room presentations
Pirate Enlightenment Discussion at Brooklyn Public Library
Virginia Heffernan, Edward Ongweso, Jr., Gideon Lewis-Kraus, and Andrew Ross discuss David Graeber’s Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia, the final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything. Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and radical visions of freedom. But at the root […]
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber – Reading Group Part 7
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor. We will be discussing chapter 8. Bring your favorite quotes or related material.
Roy Bhaskar’s ‘Enlightened Common Sense’ and ‘From Science to Emancipation’ – Reading Group Part 3
“One of the most influential voices in the philosophy of science and a political revolutionary”David Graeber That meeting we’ve discussed chapter 3 (first part) of Enlightened Common Sense. There is a record of the meeting below and link for .pdf of zoom-chat
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber – Reading Group Part 6
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor. We’ve discussed chapter 7. Here is a draft of the materials of the collective textbook on David Graeber’s book Debt 5000 years. If you want to add something, ask questions or comment You are welcome! There is a record of the meeting below and link for .pdf of zoom-chat
Notes: 21.12.2022 Assembly
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