#Democracy "is just the belief that humans are fundamentally equal and ought to be allowed to manage their collective affairs... using whatever means appear most conducive." #DavidGraeber, The Democracy Project (2013)
#davidgraeber
Emmanuel for the clickbait, The Invisible Man, Warum mensch noch Kinder in diese lustige Welt setzt
Ke 26.11.2025 #DavidGraeber -luentosarjan viimeinen luento, jossa esittelen ’Alussa oli…’ -kirjan teoriaa vapaudesta. Tervetuloa mukaan! ilmonet.fi/course/H253803
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#DavidGraeber #MarshallSahlins
Im fedivers ist es auch toll wenn Postings geboostet werden 😜
@Rudolf_Muehland Ethnologen der Herrschaftsfreiheit waren auch der @iwwunion Wobbly #DavidGraeber und sein Mentor #MarshallSahlins.
Ke 19.11. jatketaan #DavidGraeber Debt the first 5000 years -kirjan parissa. Päästään keskustelemaan myös Graeberin ehdottamasta velka-armahduksesta, joka #velkajarru ’a selkeämpi tapa ratkoa julkista ja yksityistä velkaantumista. Nähdään Stoan luentosalissa klo 17-18:30. ilmonet.fi/course/H253803
"#DavidGraeber was the #anthropologist who re-framed economics by showing that its most basic assumptions were myths.
Where conventional economists traced money to barter and exchange, #Graeber traced it to trust and relationships. He argued that the origins of money lay not in #markets but in #morality: in obligations, promises, and the human capacity for cooperation."
@marc So was wie bullshit jobs?
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-bullshit-jobs
Joku kehui tätä nykypäivän työelämästä kertovaa kirjaa joten pakkohan se oli kirjastosta lainata. Ja kirja kyllä koukutti lukemaan. Hevonpaskatyöt ovat toimisto- ja esimiestöitä joissa tuntuu ettei työllä ole merkitystä. Onko sellaista sattunut kohdalle?
Ensi viikolla alkaa ’Velka ja vapaus’ #DavidGraeber -luentosarjani Helsingin Työväenopistolla. Tervetuloa mukaan! Luennot Stoassa (Itäkeskus, Helsinki) kolmena peräkkäisenä keskiviikkona klo 17-18:30. www.hs.fi/menokone/eve...
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Velka ja vapaus | Kulttuurikes...
"Resulta extraordinariamente conveniente para la clase dominante la creencia de que el trabajo es un valor moral en sí mismo, y de que todo aquél que no esté dispuesto a someterse a algún tipo de intensa disciplina laboral durante la mayor parte de sus horas de vigilia, no merece nada"
David Graeber
"Resulta extraordinariamente conveniente para la clase dominante la creencia de que el trabajo es un valor moral en sí mismo, y de que todo aquél que no esté dispuesto a someterse a algún tipo de intensa disciplina laboral durante la mayor parte de sus horas de vigilia, no merece nada"
David Graeber.
@benfell , thank you.
I have doubts about my ability to free my thinking and feeling from the framework of the states, the government and the civic space.
Yes, we have the tales... #DavidGraeber #DavidWengrow #TheDawnOfEverything ...
Also, we have the fiction... #UrsulaLeGuin ...
And, we can study the states, the government and the civic space and realize that they are quite different in different states...
Yet, it seems to me, that my ability ends at imaginining some variation, modification, or negation of some aspects of my present condition -- which includes the local variant of states - government - civic and a local model of the global. My condition may be vere different from others: Tuvalu - India.
#tg736032038🧵 Methodological nationalism.
What would David Graeber do? I feel like I miss a person I never met, but his voice was so clear and I can't help but wonder what he would write about the current polycrisis and everything bubble situation.
Given his activism, I wonder what direct action he might be pursuing in these days of no kings protests.
"Admittedly, American newspaper columnists were not going to repeat the whole of the movement’s arguments—they certainly were not willing to repeat anything that suggested these problems were ultimately rooted in the very nature of the state and capitalism. But the immediate message did get out." - David Graeber https://www.davidgraeber.org/wp-content/uploads/2007-On-the-phenomenology-of-giant-puppets.pdf
Once again. Those that own the media control the propaganda.
The importance of an independent social media can't be overstressed. Which makes me worried governments will try to control the Fediverse.
In "Revolutions in Reverse", it would seem.
https://archive.org/download/anarchy_Revolutions_in_Reverse_Graeber/Revolutions_in_Reverse_Graeber.pdf
Toujours indispensable David Graeber : vous pouvez être la personne la mieux intentionné qui soit, si vous vivez dans un système de concurrence capitaliste, s'il n'y a pas de réglementation, vous serez obligé de vous comporter comme une ordure sans foi ni loi.
Someone recommended David Graeber's book The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy to me, & I did not expect from the title exactly how incisive a leftist critique it is.
I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to understand the structural violence hidden within bureaucracy.
Has anyone written about / applied #DavidGraeber & #DavidWengrow's three basic forms of social #freedom to #technology and/or #SocialMedia? I'd love to read this.
- the freedom to escape one's surroundings and move away,
- the freedom to disobey arbitrary authority, and
- the freedom to reimagine and reconstruct one's society in a different form.
Just discovered David Graeber — anthropologist, anarchist, and co-creator of “We Are the 99%.”
His big question: What would life look like if people were free to do meaningful work instead of pretending to be busy?
Read - On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs” (free online link below).
https://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
#davidgraeber
#antiwork
#wearethe99percent
#degrowth
#gifteconomy
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