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II. Pirate Enlightenment by #DavidGraeber

In the early 18th century, the Zana-Malata people – a new culture created jointly by pirates from around the world and Malagasy – came to dominate the island. They brought with them the democratic practices of pirate ships (where captains were elected and served at the pleasure of their crews) and the matriarchal traditions of some Malagasy, creating a feminist, anarchist "Libertalia."

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The Farrar, Strauss, Giroux cover for David Graeber's 'Pirate Enlightenment, Or the Real Libertalia

nika dubrovsky

Just found this post from our Fight Club Project
Je Suis Jean Jacques Rousseau 12 rounds of Fight Club- bare knuckles no blood. Drag philosophy. If you want to join the Assembly let me know there are a few open seats. A strange and wonderful project by Nika Dubrovsky, poster by the amazing Clive Russel @thisaintrockandroll @hausderkulturenderwelt @museumofcare #berlin #drag #globalassembly #davidGraeber

molosovsky

Liebe #Phantastik-Gemeinde. In »Bürokratie. Die Utopie der Regeln« (2015) beschäftigt sich #DavidGraeber ausführlich mit #Fantasy, #ScienceFiction, #Superhelden und Rollenspielen (Fantasy + Formulare = D&D).

Eine der Hauptthesen ist m.E. enorm fruchtbar für Phantasten: »Struktuelle Gewalt {TAFKA Ausbeutung} bringt einseitige Strukturen der Imagination hervor.« — S. 100.

Als Bonus gibts »Über Batman und die Problematik der rechtssetzenden Gewalt« über »The Dark Knight Rises«.

Molo hält Buch hoch: »Bürokratie. Die Utopie der Regeln« (2015 / Dt. von Hans Freundl und Henning Dedekind).

Jennifer Moore

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Feeling sad about this. Seems all too plausible.

"Nika Dubrovsky, the wife of David Graeber, author of Bullshit Jobs who died in September 2020 of pancreatitis necrosis, believes covid triggered his condition and ultimately his death."

DG was 59 and, like many people, seems to have been in basically good health prior to catching covid.

https://x.com/NateB_Panic/status/1716763738693316706

#DavidGraeber #pancreatitis #covid

queeruferlos LoRa München 92,4

@baiern @muellertadzio

Die #Geschichte des #Kapitalismus als die Geschichte der #Schulden:

#DavidGraeber mit "schulden, die letzten 5000 Jahre" ... oder noch tiefer gehend, in #Anfänge,

Freedom Press

Review: The Dawn of Everything
The Dawn of Everything is a book of anthropology and archaeology which suggests a vision of the prehistory of humanity that is very different from previous evolutionary texts.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/09/16/review-the-dawn-of-everything/
#Anthropology #BookReview #DavidGraeber #DavidWengrow

The cover of THE DAWN OF EVERYTHING
A NEW HISTORY OF HUMANITY
DAVID GRAEBER
DAVID WENGROW

Dr. Young-Leslie 🇨🇦

Remembering #DavidGraeber.
2 years ago. We all miss him; miss what he would have said, done.

https://crimethinc.com/2020/09/03/the-shock-of-victory-an-essay-by-david-graeber-and-a-eulogy-for-him

Gustav-Landauer-Bibliothek Witten commented on Schulden by David Graeber

David Graeber: Schulden (German language, 2012, Klett-Cotta)

Ein ebenso radikaler wie befreiender Blick auf die Wurzeln unserer Schuldenkrise

Seit der Erfindung des …

Geschichte und Theorie des Geldes

Vortrag und Diskussion zu David Graebers "Schulden: Die ersten 5000 Jahre" und der Paritätstheorie des Geldes nach Schwenke

David Graeber hat in seinem materialreichen Buch "Schulden: Die ersten 5000 Jahre" den historisch bedeutsamen Unterschied von Edelmetallgeld und Kreditgeld herausgearbeitet. Den Gegensatz dieser beiden Konzepte synthetisierend gibt uns die Paritätstheorie des Geldes (Siegfried H. Schwenke) ein weitergehendes, universell verwendbares Begriffssystem zur Analyse und Gestaltung von Geldsystemen.

latscher.in/events/2023-07-20-geschichte-und-theorie-des-geldes

#Dortmund #CaféAufbruch #DavidGraeber #Schulden

Cory Doctorow replied to Cory Doctorow's status

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Indeed, one of the great ironies of the post-Cold War world is that the USA has become a "#UtopiaOfRules" (as #DavidGraeber put it), subjecting everyday people to the state-run bureacracies that the USAUSAUSA set endlessly ridiculed the USSR for:

https://memex.craphound.com/2015/02/02/david-graebers-the-utopia-of-rules-on-technology-stupidity-and-the-secret-joys-of-bureaucracy/

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Cory Doctorow replied to Cory Doctorow's status

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Applied statistics can automate a lot of work away, but what it's best at is automating the #BullshitJobs that #DavidGraeber (#RestInPower) described in his brilliant 2018 book:

https://memex.craphound.com/2018/06/20/david-graebers-bullshit-jobs-why-does-the-economy-sustain-jobs-that-no-one-values/

An academic friend tells me that they use #LLMs to write recommendation letters for grad students, and that grad students use LLMs to take minutes on department meetings.

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Steve

MUSEUM OF CARE AS A PROJECT

"The Museum of Care is your Museum: it was created by the people for the people. During the 2020 Covid pandemic, Nika Dubrovsky and David Graeber came up with the idea. After David’s death, Nika and friends created a website that hosted Reading groups, assemblies, and art projects..."

#DavidGraeber #MuseumOfCare

https://museum.care/room/what-is-the-museum-of-care/