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David Graeber: Revolution in reverse

David Graeber is an anthropologist at Goldsmiths College, University of London. In his previous books, particularly Towards An Anthropological Theory of Value and Fragments of An Anarchist Anthropology, he has spelt out his view of the need for a link between radical politics and … Continue reading

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David Graeber: Hatred has become a political taboo

A season is set for everything, a time for every experience under heaven: … A time for loving and a time for hating … Ecclesiastes, 3:1,8 By the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, it is … Continue reading

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Zionism as a politics of everyday violence

With the generous permission of Nika Dubrovsky and the David Graeber Institute, we share an article by David Graeber on his experience and reflection on daily life under Israeli state occupation. Hostile Intelligence: Reflections from a Visit to the West … Continue reading

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Occupy Wall Street/Occupy, ten years on

As a project, yes. Projection, planning and programming have never done anything but project what it was possible to calculate at a given moment. And consequently, they block the image of a future already hemmed in. Of course, it is … Continue reading

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David Graeber: After the Pandemic, We Can’t Go Back to Sleep

From Jacobin magazine … In an essay penned shortly before his death, David Graeber argued that post-pandemic, we can’t slip back into a reality where the way our society is organized — to serve every whim of a small handful … Continue reading

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(For) David Graeber on mutual aid

From the PM Press Blog … In loving memory of our friend, comrade, and mentor…David Graeber Andrej Grubacic shares some thoughts on David’s sudden passing. David Graeber was my mentor and my closest friend for the last twenty years. We … Continue reading

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David Graeber: The shock of victory

From the CrimethInc. Collective … The Shock Of Victory: An Essay by David Graeber—and a Short Eulogy for Him Today, we mourn the passing of our friend and comrade, David Graeber, a tireless, insightful, and wide-ranging thinker. In his honor, … Continue reading

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For David Graeber (1961-2020)

The greatest homage that we can be pay to David Graeber – even if this language is probably not one that he would appreciate – is to learn from his work and his life (which were never separate), and to … Continue reading

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The gilets jaunes: How the ground moves beneath our feet

What an insurrectional moment shows is the return of life to visible social space. The uprising has no existence of its own, if not by an abuse of language. It is meshed with a thousand little stories, the smaller the … Continue reading

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Looking back at “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs”: David Graeber

… written down, shit does not smell Roland Barth, “L’arbre du crime”   What constitutes a “bullshit” job?  David Graeber in a now famous essay, “On the Phenonmenon of Bullshit Jobs“(2013), which now finds a second life in book form, … Continue reading

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