This room is a room for conversation. It overlaps with and complements the “Collective Decision Making” room, which explores the mechanisms of how people agree or disagree and how we can reach consent (and can we?).
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Bullshit Jobs
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.

The Origins of Modern Debt Politics in Greece and Rome – Reading Michael Hudson’s “The Collapse of Antiquity”
As a follow-up to our reading group on Graeber’s “Debt” we will read Hudson’s “The Collapse of Antiquity” as of September 2023.

5000 Years of Debt
The room is dedicated to the discussion of the concept of debt as present in David Graeber’s “Debt: The First 5,000 Years,” as well as in other texts.

Bullshit Jobs Games
This project opens up way to promote and discuss Bullshit Jobs, using satirical and playful means to take Bullshit Jobs to a wider audience as the theory becomes more and more relevant.

Everyday Carnival
Choose Yourself. Change who you are. Make yourself someone else.

Another Art World: reading group and discussion
This group emerged from the events, discussions, dialogues that took place around a series of essays written by David Graeber and Nika Dubrovsky.

Confederation: Mastodon
The David Greaber Institute‘s Mastodon server is up and running at graeber.social.

Conservation Lab
How might a reconfigured conservation cross pollinate and inform experimental and collaborative practices dedicated to nurturing and maintaining alternative material/social relations? A museum without objects!

Brain Trust Culinary Collection
Can urban dwellers be self-sufficient in food production? Let's try to find out in practice.