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The Global Casino:How Wall Street Gambles with People and the Planet
We are very happy to present our long-time contributor Ann Pettifor, who has just published a new book with Verso. To mark the release, we invite you to a conversation between Ann Pettifor and the wonderful writer, economist, and researcher Grace Blakeley. Together they will discuss the ideas behind the book, contemporary political economy, and […]
Carnival4David 2026 working group meeting
This is a working group meeting for the preparation of the Carnival4David: Nairobi, London and Saint Vincent. If you want to join us, please, write an email. Here are the notes from the previous meetings.
the Survival Kit Collection
Hi everyone, Happy 2026! We want to bring everyone together who’s been working on or thinking about the Survival Kit Collection. It’s been a busy year, and it feels like time to actually talk to each other and figure out what happens next. The Survival Kit Collection brings together artists, engineers, and activists working on […]
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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 […]
Bullshit Jobs, Part 3
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. In this session, we will talk about different critical stances on […]
Vygotsky, Play, and Experience
Kyrill Potapov will give a short intro to the thought of Vygotsky and we will discuss “On the Problem of the Psychology of the Actor’s Creative Work.“ In this short text, Lev Vygotsky explores the relationship between the experience of an actor and an audience, their social context and action we see on stage. The text […]
Why Do We Play? The Origins of Self-Consciousness, Freedom, and Morality, Part 2
‘Play as a principle of nature does not necessarily mean adopting any sort of milky utopian view. The play principle can help explain why sex is fun, but it can also explain why cruelty is fun. As anyone who has watched a cat play with a mouse can attest, a lot of animal play is […]
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 […]
Bullshit Jobs, Part 2
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. Capitalism and Communism: Where Bullshit Jobs Prevail How, in the Soviet […]
Climate Change: Is it a Beat Up?; Or Will It Beat Us Up?; And Is There a Way to Beat It? (Brain Trust lecture #2)
Economists like Nobel Prize winner William Nordhaus claim that global warming of 3.8C by 2100 will reduce GDP by a mere 5 percent. Climate scientists like Tim Lenton describe 3°C of warming as “catastrophic”. Who should you trust? Come along and find out from the author of Debunking Economics, Prof Steve Keen. Also learn how […]
Roy Bhaskar’s ‘Enlightened Common Sense’ and ‘From Science to Emancipation’ / How to Take Over the “David and his Philosophers”
In the first part of this session we’ll discuss the relationship between Roy Bhaskar’s dialectics (outlined in chapter 6 of Enlightened Common Sense) and David Graeber’s discussion and use of Marx in Towards an Anthropological Theory of Value (page 100, page 69, and other mentions of Bhaskar in the text). In the second part, building […]
THE ORIGINS OF MODERN DEBT POLITICS IN GREECE AND ROME – READING MICHAEL HUDSON’S “THE COLLAPSE OF ANTIQUITY” PART 4
In the fourth session we look at how public finance was taken over by oligarchs and how Sparta’s last kings tried and failed at reform. This closes our discussion of Greece as the spotlight turns on a much bigger predator – Rome. Again we try to apply David Graeber’s framework from Debt – The first […]
MATERIAL PHOTOGRAPHIES READING GROUP
The Material Photographies Reading 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. All are warmly invited to attend! Please find all the details below. As always, do get in touch for the Meeting link and […]