Reading Groups
curated by Steve Bachelor, Simona Ferlini, Nika Dubrovsky, Mark Fuller, Vassily Pigounides and many others

We read and discuss David Graeber’s texts and related material. Please do feel free to get in touch if you are interested in presenting a particular text. All voices are welcome.
Current reading groups
- Roy Bhaskar’s ‘Enlightened Common Sense’ and ‘From Science to Emancipation’
- Debt in Discussion with Michael Hudson and Barry Gills
- Andrew Johnson’s ‘Bureaucrats with guns: Or, how we can abolish the police if we just stop believing in them’, May 25.
Past reading groups:
- Ayça Çubukçu’s ‘David Graeber’s Anthropology of Human Possibilities,‘ February 23
- 13 October, 2022 – David Graeber Philosophical Series: Pierce with Federico Montanari
- 15 May, 2022 and 15 September 2022 – Critique of Violence by Walter Benjamin
- June and Julym 2022 – There Never Was a West by David Graeber in 5 parts
- 13 January, 2022 – Political Treatise, Chap. 1 to 5 by Baruch Spinoza. Facilitator for this session: Simona Ferlini.
- 18 November, 2021 – KARAOKE Reading Group. Theme: Debt. For more information and to sign up, see here. DJ for this session: Vassily.
- 19 November, 2021 – LSE Anthropology David Graeber Tribute Seminar series: Fragments of an anarchist anthropology (2004) (video available here).
- 22 October, 2021 – David Graeber Tribute Friday Seminar Series: Lost People, with Maurice Bloch and Jonathan Parry. Register here.
- 14 October, 2021 – KARAOKE Reading Group. For more information and to sign up, see here. Facilitator or DJ for this session: Vassily.
- 30 September, 2021 – ‘Why are there so few anarchists in the academy’ (available here). Facilitator(s) for this session: Simona.
- 9 September, 2021 – ‘Of Human Bondage, or the Strength of the Emotions’ by Baruch Spinoza (available here). Facilitator(s) for this session: Simona Ferlini.
- 27 August, 2021 – Anti-Education: On the Future of Our Educational Institutions by Friedrich Nietzsche (available here). Facilitator(s) for this session: Vittoria & Andris.
- 19 August, 2021 – ‘Culture as Creative Refusal’. Facilitator(s) for this session: Vassily and Steven.
- 18 August, 2021 – Reading group: ‘The Dawn of Everything’ by David Graeber and David Wengrow, Facilitator: Steven
- 5 August, 2021 – ‘Going in and out of each other’s bodies’ by Maurice Bloch (available here). Facilitator(s) for this session: Steven.
- 15 July, 2021 – ‘Beyond the Monastic Self’ (available here). Facilitator(s) for this session: Sevda & Steven.
- 17 June, 2021 – Discussion with Stephen Snelders, author of The Devil’s Anarchy.
- 28 May, 2021 – David Graeber The Utopia of Rules, chapter 3, 5:00pm to 6:30pm.
- 13 May, 2021 – ‘Communist Proteins,’ with Alexei Yurchak.
- 29 April, 2021 – ‘Manners, Deference, and Private Property’ in Possibilities, pp. 24-30 (available here) and Mikhail Bakhtin’s ‘Introduction’ in Rabelais and His World, pp. 1-12 (available here). Facilitator(s) for this session: Simona.
- 22 April 2021– General Assembly.
- 15 April, 2021 – Chapters 3 and 4 on the spiritual violence of Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (available here). Facilitator(s) for this session: Greg.
- 8 April, 2021 – ‘What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?’ (available here). Facilitator(s) for this session: Elizabeth, Nika, Oihane. Watch it here.
- 1 April, 2021 – Carnival and April Fools day!! Come and have fun with us!
- 26 March, 2021 – Chapters 1, 4 and 7 of Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (available here). Facilitator(s) for this session: Ayça Çubukçu (hosted by LSE Sociology). Register here.
- 18 March, 2021 –150th anniversary of the Paris Commune: a party, a celebration and a day of memories.
- 5 March, 2021 – ‘Communism’ (available here). Facilitator(s) for this session: Yash, Steve & Vassily.
- 19 February, 2021 – ‘Turning Modes of Production Inside Out: Or, Why Capitalism is a Transformation of Slavery’ (available here). Facilitator(s) for this session: Steve.
- 5 February, 2021 – The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement (available here). Facilitator(s) for this session: Ayça Çubukçu (hosted by LSE Sociology). Register here.
- 22 January, 2021 – ‘How Change Happens’ in The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement, pp. 181-200 (available here). Facilitator(s) for this session: Marisa.
- 8 January, 2021 – ‘Another Art World, Part II: Utopia of Freedom as a Market Value’ with Nika Dubrovksy (available here). Facilitator(s) for this session: Mitya & Vassily.
- 11 December, 2020 – ‘Another Art World, Part I: Art Communism and Artificial Scarcity’ with Nika Dubrovsky (available here). Facilitator(s) for this session: Dennis.
- 27 November, 2020 – Introduction, Chapter 5 and 10 of Direct Action: An Ethnography (available here). Facilitator(s) for this session: Ayça Çubukçu (hosted by LSE Sociology).
- 13 November, 2020 – ‘Dead Zones of the Imagination: On Violence, Bureaucracy, and Interpretive Labor’ (available here). Facilitator(s) for this session: Mitya & Vassily.
Some ideas for our future reading groups:
- Jo Freeman’s essay ‘The Tyranny of Structurelessness’ facilitated by Scott Thompson
- To Our Friends (available here)
- Marcel Mauss Techniques, Technology and Civilization Oxford: Berghahn Books Year: 2006 ed. by Nathan Schlanger ISBN: 1-57181-662-3 “Les civilisations. Éléments et formes.” (1929) Facilitator – Vassily
- Max Weber’s “Against Judaism” and the Origins of Capitalism facilitated by Simona Ferlini
- The Care Manifesto
- ‘Army of Altruists’ (available here)
- A Grammar of the Multitude: For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life by Paolo Virno
- David Graeber against Michel Foucault: a fight club
- ‘The Bully’s Pulpit’
- David Graeber about Roy Bhaskar
- ‘Revolutionary Prospects and Critical Realism’
- From Managerial Feudalism to the Revolt of the Caring Classes
- The Divine Artificial Intelligence ‘Anarchy–In a Manner of Speaking – Conversations with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Nika Dubrovsky, and Assia Turquier–Zauberman’
- ‘Another Art World, Part III: Policing and Symbolic Order’ with Nika Dubrovsky (available here)
- ‘The Meaning of Money’
- Pierre Clastres, Archeology of Violence
Here is our Library of Care.