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Visual Assembly in New York and everywhere: The Strangers Among Us – or Are We the Strangers?
Join us on July 25 at 6pm New York time! We’re hosting a Visual Assembly—a public gathering where people come together to draw, talk, and imagine. It’s not a protest or a conference. It’s a space to think and act together, using images instead of speeches. This Assembly is about migration and how our cities […]
Self-Organized Visual Assembly - 4 July
Hi everyone! Last week we had some incredible chalk drawn by some great chalkers. If you are one of those people thank you so much your contributions were beautiful This Friday: 6:30pm: 65 E 57th St, New York, NY 10022 There’s no theme this week, everyone did such a great job on their own we […]
Debt, Empire, and the Future: Dialogues with Michael Hudson | part 2
If one starts poking at the history of debt, what one discovers is not a history of honor, or integrity, but a history of violence, slavery, and war. The world’s great empires were built on debt, and the moral claims of creditors have always been enforced by the threat of force. Graeber insisted that the […]
Visual Assembly: A Playground of the Future / Sigana International Storytelling Festival
Ways of imagining a playground as a space of collectivity and care Every society relies on collective storytelling and social bonds. David Graeber and Nika Dubrovsky’s Anthropology for Kids books and workshops inspired the idea of Visual Assemblies, where people come together to collectively imagine the future. One long-standing focus of Visual Assemblies and Anthropology […]
Self-Organized Visual Assembly - 27 June
This POPS (privately owned public space) was nicer than the average one was. It was pleasantly arranged with lots of places to sit and plenty of tree cover. Not perfect, and certainly no match for the famous Bryant Park one block away, but it’s solid attendance spoke for its quality. We did notice that one […]
Self-Organized Visual Assembly - 20 June
This event took place near Wall st., and participants really took this to heart. Many passers-by who joined in were very upset with electoral politics, and wanted to write about what they didn’t want. However, once they saw the tree of knowledge and fruit, the discussion on street plant selection, and free bikes chalked on […]
Self-organized Visual Assembly - July 18
Re-imagine New York with us. Every week, we will decide together what’s missing, then bring it into chalky existence. Become Robert Moses’ worst nightmare!(Almost) Every Friday this summer, we are bringing the chalk. All we need from you is your understanding of the city, your doodling abilities, and a desire to use our state-of-the-art chalk […]
Self-Organised Visual Assembly — 13 June
Report From June 13: We started with nature. Wheat fields, canals, islands. Manhattan used to have these things, but they are now hard to find. It was nice to imagine them coming back. As it was one of the first warm days, people thought about putting barbecues on the islands within the canals. Bike paths […]
Events list
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.
ROY BHASKAR’S ‘ENLIGHTENED COMMON SENSE’ AND ‘FROM SCIENCE TO EMANCIPATION’ – READING GROUP PART 8
One of the most influential voices in the philosophy of science and a political revolutionary David Graeber about Roy Bhaskar This session we will resume our studies after our summer break. We’ll review the material we have covered so far in Enlightened Common Sense chapters 1-5, basically the entirety of the first phase of critical […]
2023-2024 Season Opening – Carnival
The David Graeber Institute and Museum of Care cordially invite you to the opening of a new season that will include an exhibition, movie screening, carnival, and party. Join us on September 16, 2023, for assembling together, co-creation, caring for each other, and food sharing. DGI Cinema launch DGI Cinema is a project dedicated to public screenings […]