Islands in the Future

The David Graeber Institute is re-imagining an abandoned ship as an anti-colonial Museum of Care in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

How to make decisions: Collective Documentary

Who makes decisions? What is consensus? What is direct democracy? And what can be brought to general discussion and what should remain private? Where is the line between a large collective and small groups of friends, circles, or private people?

Education and (anti)Institutions

this room is dedicated to discuss the status of education, its relation to institutions, and their response to different types of pressures.

‘THIS IS NOT A PIRATE’

‘Existing history is not just deeply flawed and Eurocentric, it's also unnecessarily tedious and boring’. PIRATE ENLIGHTENMENT, David Graeber

Seminars of Care

A series of multidisciplinary encounters devoted to the themes of care and caring

Fetish and Value

In this room, we discuss David's ideas about value and fetishism as social creativity.

Late Soviet Temporalities

Why should we care about time? Are time at work and time off still the same time? How does time shape how we live, speak and perceive the world? How does it feel to have no future? And what about being stuck in the past? The room explores these questions by drawing on late socialist experiences.

There Never Was a West

The reading group of David Graeber’s text ‘There Never Was a West: Or, Democracy Emerges from the Spaces in Between.’ 

Translit

A presentation of the latest issues of the [Translit] journal.