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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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DEBT: THE FIRST 5,000 YEARS BY DAVID GRAEBER – READING GROUP PART 12
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor
An open Assembly “tools of Care”
Presentations took place in the new rooms at the housekeeping committee on Jan. 25 (see video of presentations here). In each case, the question arose: which is the best way to communicate with the public? How can we facilitate open collective dialogue and get people involved in the projects? During the housekeeping committee, innovations in […]
Between Fascism and Communism: The Aestheticization of Politics and the Politicization of Art
This is a follow-up of the reading group on Walter Benjamin’s text The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. We ran out of time to read Timothy O’Leary’s text Fat, Felt and Fascism: The Case of Joseph Beuys. This discussion will include the essay by Boris Groys On art activism, which makes […]
DEBT: THE FIRST 5,000 YEARS BY DAVID GRAEBER – READING GROUP PART 11
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor. We will be discussing both the last section of Chap 10 (“What, Then, Were the Middle Ages?”) and the beginning of Chap 11 up to and including Part I (“Part I: Greed, Terror, Indignation, Debt”). Bring your favorite quotes and related material. Click on the title above to register.
Roy Bhaskar’s ‘Enlightened Common Sense’ and ‘From Science to Emancipation’ – Reading Group Part 5
One of the most influential voices in the philosophy of science and a political revolutionaryDavid Graeber about Roy Bhaskar This session will be focused on chapter 3. It will be the third and final discussion of chapter 3 where we will synthesize our thoughts and discoveries on Bhaskar’s views on social science. The recording of […]
DEBT: THE FIRST 5,000 YEARS BY DAVID GRAEBER – READING GROUP PART 10
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor. We’ll continue discussing Chapter 10 (as needed) and then Chapter 11. Bring your favorite quotes and related material. Click on the title above to register.
Reading Group on Ayça Çubukçu’s David Graeber’s Anthropology of Human Possibilities
Ayça Çubukçu, who was a dear friend of David Graeber, uploaded on Academia the draft of a caring and insightful paper about him, partially published as a foreword to the German edition of Fragments. David Graeber’s Anthropology of Human Possibilities Chat 00:36:59 Michael Reinsborough: Maybe we can think of myth as inevitable- but some myths allow […]
22.02.2023 Housekeeping Committee
Agenda – report on new rooms and their development– Paola had proposed a really important fundraising event for Rojava – We can discuss further the implementation of the discussion in the rooms– Plans for the future Timeline Regular events Other upcoming events 23 February, 2023 Reading Group On Ayça Çubukçu’s David Graeber’s Anthropology Of Human Possibilities 23 […]
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber – Reading Group Part 9
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor. The goal is to have read as much of Chapter 10 as possible. Realistically, we anticipate finishing discussion of this chapter at a second meeting. Bring your favorite quotes and related material. Please register (please click on the title).
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, […]