David Graeber
@davidgraeber
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I'm an anthropologist, sometimes I occupy things & such. I see anarchism as something you do not an identity so don't call me the anarchist anthropologist
London
Joined March 2009
@ALALibrary @gregmepstein @tsterndc We're also offering BLADs of "Cities Made Differently," a new book by David Graeber & @nikadubrovsky, which opens a space for invention & collaboration. Using playful graphics and curious facts, they invite us to rethink the worlds we inhabit. https://t.co/PDzHv05JRv
mitpress.mit.edu
What makes a city a city? Who says? Drafted over decades out of a dialogue between artist and author Nika Dubrovsky, the late anthropologist David Graeber, a...
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Why have carnivals in the first place? Carnival is an anti-war and activist art movement that is not about party politics. It is not a protest movement in the sense of building bridges with power but aims to reorganize the very logic of our relationship with authorities.
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Remembering David: it's been 3 years since his death. This is David's last video taken in Berlin the day before we left to Venice. David would die a few days later. https://t.co/yjRSKwKBla
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De Verlichtingsidealen worden doorgaans gezien als een westers concept. Maar @davidgraeber meent dat veel van die ideeën juist buiten Europa ontstonden - bijvoorbeeld bij piraten op Madagaskar.🏴☠️ Zo vertelt @ABlijdenstein bij @OVTradio1. Luister terug via: https://t.co/jcONgradgs
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But the story of Libertalia is still obscure and mystic. I wonder what David would think of Zheng Yi Sao and the Chinese pirate society if he cast his eyes on Asia? https://t.co/EEnzkANobk
@davidgraeber 2)
worldhistory.org
Zheng Yi Sao (aka Ching Shih, Cheng I Sao, Ching Yih Saou or Mrs Cheng, d. 1844) was the chief of a massive pirate confederation which plundered the South China Sea in the early 19th century. She...
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The next meeting of the London @HousmansBooks reading group is on Thursday 16th February at 7pm. We are discussing Bullshit Jobs by @davidgraeber More info here: https://t.co/hN7E7OgChQ See you there!
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@b_lillico @RBReich @davidgraeber It's not zero-sum. It's a negative-sum monetary system, resulting in a negative-sum economy. 3-4 billion #bullshitjobs are destroying Earth, not contributing anything to society. #climatechange and "inflation" are symptoms of global nonsense employment.
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it is wild to watch people become so alienated from their labor they've come all the way around to interpreting the the types of work from @davidgraeber's Bullshit Jobs as some sort of capitalist realist virtue and that casts Sisyphus's torture as a self-rewarding success hack.
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@dvassallo “@ShankarVedantam talks with @davidgraeber about the rise of bullshit jobs and how these positions can affect the people who hold them.” https://t.co/yhGB2VfB8J
@HiddenBrain 2018
npr.org
Have you ever had a job where you had to stop and ask yourself: what am I doing here? If I quit tomorrow, would anyone even notice? This week on Hidden Brain, we talk with anthropologist David...
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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber review – utopia by the sea
theguardian.com
The late anthropologist on how an 18th-century Madagascan microstate provides a model for egalitarian living
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"Whatever happened in 18th-century Madagascar, Pirate Enlightenment implies, we could surely all do with a bit more free-thinking and egalitarianism in our own social, sexual and political arrangements." (The Guardian) @LibertaliaLivre
@nikadubrovsky @davidwengrow
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The late, great David Graeber takes on the established view (again) of the enlightenment in this fascinating book. Provocative and piratical as ever.
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Many thanks to everyone who turned out yesterday to the launch of @davidgraeber Pirate Enlightenment. Looking forward to the recording.
If you're around Brooklyn this evening and wanting to celebrate publication day for David Graeber's very rad Pirate Enlightenment, we'll be discussing at the Brooklyn Library. Please stop by — and raise the mast, or a glass. 🏴☠️
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“It is very hard to be objective about pirates. Most historians don’t even try.” The late #DavidGraeber’s final posthumous book is out now! https://t.co/PwOFWqarC8
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@bfcarlson The late, great David Graeber @davidgraeber Here’s him debating Peter Thiel on where the future went. And that topic isn’t even his intellectual bread and butter. https://t.co/4Jc6UlajJ0
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