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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First Aid Kit against Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism strikes when you least expect it. It is therefore important to have a first aid kit with a little more content than just plasters for the wound. First aid kit against neoliberalism v. 2.0 is amply supplied with everything you need when neoliberalism strikes.
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.
Carnival4David
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.
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.
Playgrounds – the history of public art projects and the City of Care
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.
Critique of Violence
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.
Common Waters
Waters are a commons. They are also a common matter and topic, widely and variously discussed in different fields and with different perspectives, aims and methodologies. This room, curated by Paola Pietronave and Arianna Sollazzo, is a space for their many forms, declinations and aspects.
DGI Culinary Collection
Can urban dwellers be self-sufficient in food production? Let's try to find out in practice.
David Graeber’s Tarot cards
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…