There will be an online event by the David Graeber Institute on December 8th.

Cory Doctorow and Brian Eno will speak about poetic technologies and the work of David Graeber

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Neo-Liberalism, Trickle-down economics, Thatcherism or whatever you call it really has more in common with fundamentalist religion than anything else.

Visual Assembly - Planning the ideal University

in Sommerakademie Paul Klee curated by Pauline Hatzigeorgiou as a part of the program Shaping What We Owe (One Another)

Held in collaboration together with our Kenyan partners:

Planning the ideal University: Kibera/Bern

Visual Assembly in Sommerakademie Paul Klee curated by Pauline Hatzigeorgiou as a part of the programm Shaping What We Owe (One Another) held in

Museum Of Care (museum.care)

If you talk about forgiving or cancelling debts nowadays, you may face a variety of insults from conservatives

But it is something built into Biblical law. Maybe those conservatives need to read a book about the history of Debt.

Is this new system we are moving to even Capitalism,

or is just Feudalism with modern technology?

Yesterday, we held a livestream with Prof Tim Ingold about the topic of 'Art In A Possible World.'

If you could not make it, you can view the stream here on our youtube channel.

If you are interested in Anthropology and to learn more about the work of David Graeber, our live stream with Prof Tim Ingold starts now.

Maintaining the status quo is an essential part of the job of the mainstream media.

We'll hold a public talk with Tim Ingold, on Nov 6th (6pm London time)

The topic will be, Sharing time: the work of art in a possible. It'll be streamed live on the DGI Youtube channel.

Don’t forget to subscribe & the notification when we go live.

Public talk : Sharing time: the work of art in a possible World -Tim Ingold

“In the world of possibilities, every work begins with an idea in mind, and ends in its realisation. This is work that cuts across. But the creativity of

David Graeber Institute (davidgraeber.institute)

It is a neo-liberal myth, the idea of an unregulated bank.

We'll hold a public talk with Tim Ingold, on Nov 6th (6pm London time)

The topic will be: Sharing time: the work of art in a possible.

It'll be streamed live on the DGI Youtube channel. Don’t forget to subscribe & the notification when we go live.

https://davidgraeber.institute/public-talk-sharing-time-the-work-of-art-in-a-possible-world-tim-ingold/

Politics must be more than a choice between a Corporate Democrat and a Trumpist Fascist.

Dancing frogs have become a symbol of resistance in the USA.

Interestingly, over a decade ago David Graeber wrote a piece on the power of such symbols in protest movements.

The piece is called - On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets. Here is an extract.

Modern capitalism has more in common with Feudalism and the oldstyle slave-system than most people realize.

"The police don’t spend their time fighting violent criminals. Instead, they
enforce administrative regulations & endless rules. Rather than protecting us
against violence they bring the threat of violence to situations where it'd never
occur otherwise. Most incidents of domestic violence, a drunken brawl, or
gang fights, they don’t get involved however try driving down the street with
no license plates: how long it'll be before you're surrounded by people
with weapons."

- David Graeber

"What would happen if we stopped acting as if the primordial
form of work is laboring at a production line, or wheat field,
or iron foundry, or even in an office cubicle, and instead
started from a mother, a teacher, or a caregiver?
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We might be forced to conclude that the real business of
human life is not contributing toward something called the
economy but the fact that we are all, and have always been,
projects of mutual creation."
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- David Graeber

Always worth stopping to think about what Noam Chomsky has to say.

"Cancel all student loan debt? But
that would be unfair to all those
people who struggled for years
to pay back their student loans!
Let me assure the reader that,
as someone who struggled for
years to pay back his student
loans and finally did so, this
argument makes about as
much sense as saying it would
be unfair to a mugging victim
not to mug their neighbors too."

- David Graeber