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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 […]
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 […]
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.” […]
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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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Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber – Reading Group Part 5
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor. We’ve discussed chapter 6. 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
Roy Bhaskar’s ‘Enlightened Common Sense’ and ‘From Science to Emancipation’ – Reading Group Part 2
“One of the most influential voices in the philosophy of science and a political revolutionary”David Graeber In this second meeting of the Bhaskar reading group, we will discuss chapter 2 of Enlightened Common Sense. You can access the text here. The recording of this meeting has been archived.
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber – Reading Group Part 4
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor. We will be discussing chapters 5 and 6 this week. 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! Here is .pdf of zoom-chat.
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber – Reading Group Part 3
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor. We will be discussing chapters 3 and 4 this week. 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! Here is .pdf of zoom-chat.
Roy Bhaskar’s ‘Enlightened Common Sense’ and ‘From Science to Emancipation’ – Reading Group Part 1
“One of the most influential voices in the philosophy of science and a political revolutionary”David Graeber This inaugural meeting of the Roy Bhaskar reading group will introduce both these books and discuss the form this reading group will take over the coming weeks For this session we will be discussing the first chapter of “Enlightened […]
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber – Reading Group Part 2
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor. 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! Here is .pdf of zoom-chat.
大卫·格雷伯研究所开幕与“气候紧急状态”公寓 / 艺术全球展
大卫·格雷伯研究所将于2022年10月29日当地时间晚间7点，在伦敦亚历山大路住宅区（Rowley Way）的 52 Boundary Rd, London NW8 0HJ 宣布开幕，并举办首届“气候紧急状态”公寓艺术展（APT/ART – CLIMATE EMERGENCY），世界各地都会同时举办此次展览的平行展。
AptArt around the World: Celebrating the launch of the David Graeber Institute.
At 19:00hrs (London time), October 29, 2022, the David Graeber Institute opened with its inaugural Apartment Art Exhibition APT / ART – CLIMATE EMERGENCY at 52 Boundary Rd, London NW8 0HJ (Rowley Way) simultaneously with parallel exhibitions taking place all over the world. The David Graeber Institute opens two years after the death of David […]