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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.

Carnival is the place where everything is turned upside down, where freedom and the possibility of changing social orders and prescribed roles reign. There has never been a better place for David’s ideas to seep and stir.

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

The playground in an amazing way gathers the hopes and despair of today's society, perhaps much more than any other public art project because it needs fewer resources to build and it immedially accessible to the public.

Walter Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence” is a seminal text that in just a few steps dismantles the very idea that any form of legitimate violence can exist, or that means can be separated from ends so that a just end can make a wrong means just. 

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

What is Magic? The magic of bureaucracy, the magic of technology, the magic of mass media (that magically controls all of us). Not even knowing it, we practice daily rituals that recreate the social relations that enable the rules by which we live. Perhaps the answer to the question of liberation lies in the (almost…

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.

A room dedicated to the network of communities, organizations, spaces, collectives, individuals and ideas connected by Visual Assemblies - creative collaborations that aim to imagine new ways to run and organize our social systems.

We are organising, under the patronage of Museum of Care and the David Graeber Institute, a series of public lectures on the philosophical foundations of the work of David Graeber, whose death in September 2020 was an enormous shock and left a void in anthropology and far beyond the discipline.