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#caturday finally I have a picture of #thedawnofeveryrhing worth #sharing !
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Some *light* reading -- history and prophecy...
I read #FrankWaters "#TheBookOfTheHopi" many years ago, but misplaced my old copy. Refreshing myself on #HopiProphecy and what it all means for the times we are living in.
#EricCline's "#1177BC" has been a good read. I'm finding his chapter about a "perfect storm of calamities" to be relevant to the age we are living in now, especially with regard to #ClimateCrisis and #Polycrisis.
Graeber/Wengrow's "#TheDawnOfEverything" has taken me a while to get through... So much to take in. Learning about power and systems of power and their origins.
"The Occult Features of #Anarchism" by #EricaLagalisse also deals with systems of power -- and how #MutualAid is part of true autonomy (I agree).
#Bookstodon #AmReading #ReadWithPride #BannedBooks #ToBeBanned? #ReadWhileItsStillLegal #BigBrother #Fascism #Authoritarianism #DavidGraeber #DavidWengrow
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@gustavoduch me ha hecho pensar en este fragmento del libro El amanecer de todo de #davidgraeber y #davidwengrow donde habla de #colonizacion y #agricultura:
(ahora me he fijado que he puesto las fotos en orden inverso y edito para que quien lo lea, no se vuelva loc@)
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Came across this in a post about #SolarPunk a few weeks ago (post may be gone)... Anyhow, I've been reading #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow's book, "The Dawn of Everything," and thought the question posited by #Graeber was relevant to #SolarPunkSunday...
Are You An #Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!
"Every time you treat another human with consideration and respect, you are being an anarchist. Every time you work out your differences with others by coming to reasonable compromise, listening to what everyone has to say rather than letting one person decide for everyone else, you are being an anarchist. Every time you have the opportunity to force someone to do something, but decide to appeal to their sense of reason or justice instead, you are being an anarchist. The same goes for every time you share something with a friend, or decide who is going to do the dishes, or do anything at all with an eye to fairness"
David Graeber, The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World, p 243, published 2009
"Chances are you have already heard something about who anarchists are and what they are supposed to believe. Chances are almost everything you have heard is nonsense. Many people seem to think that anarchists are proponents of violence, chaos, and destruction, that they are against all forms of order and organization, or that they are crazed nihilists who just want to blow everything up. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. Anarchists are simply people who believe human beings are capable of behaving in a reasonable fashion without having to be forced to. It is really a very simple notion. But it’s one that the rich and powerful have always found extremely dangerous.
At their very simplest, anarchist beliefs turn on to two elementary assumptions. The first is that human beings are, under ordinary circumstances, about as reasonable and decent as they are allowed to be, and can organize themselves and their communities without needing to be told how. The second is that power corrupts. Most of all, anarchism is just a matter of having the courage to take the simple principles of common decency that we all live by, and to follow them through to their logical conclusions. Odd though this may seem, in most important ways you are probably already an anarchist — you just don’t realize it.
Let’s start by taking a few examples from everyday life."
Read more:
https://davidgraeber.org/articles/are-you-an-anarchist-the-answer-maysurprise-you/#SolarPunkSunday #BuildingCommunity #BuildingResilience #NoKings #NoRulers #Inequality #PowerCorrupts
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#DavidWengrow fasst am Ende dieses Gespräches gut drei miteinander verflochtende Grund-Aspekte von #Freiheit zusammen:
1—Bewegung weg von einer Umgebung hin zu einer anderen (Netzwerk überregional-freundschaftlicher Stammesgesellschaften);
2—Verweigerung von Befehlen (Debatte, Überzeugung & Teilhabe statt Zwang, Gewalt & Hierarchie)
3—Vorstellung & Schaffung alternativer Gesellschaftsformen (Wechsel zwischen verschiedenen Lebenswelten).
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Neuer Plausch mit #DavidWengrow lohnt sich sowohl für alle, die Vertiefung und aktuelle Ergänzung zu »The Dawn of Everything« (zusammen mit #DavidGraeber 2021; Dt. »Anfänge« 2022) suchen, als auch alle, denen der Schinken zu dick ist.
Bietet wertvolle Rundschau zu den Reibungen zwischen historisch-ideologischen Mythen und soziologisch-archäologischen Erkenntnissen.
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“#TheDawnOfEverything”: #DavidWengrow & the Late #DavidGraeber On a New #HistoryOfHumanity -
2021
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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
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#Minoan religion and arts are profoundly not interested in the self-perpetuating, power-hungry ego. What they celebrate is the opposite: the ritually-induced release from individuality, and an ecstacy of being that is overtly erotic and spiritual at the same time (ek-stasis, or “standing beyond oneself”)—a cosmos that both nurtures and ignores the individual, that vibrates with inseparable sexual energies and spiritual epiphanies.
#DavidGraeber #Graeber #Wengrow #DavidWengrow #Crete #JackDempsey
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#GRK0081 #Libertés #Anthropologie #Philosophie #DavidGRAEBER #DavidWENGROW
Au commencement était...
Une nouvelle histoire de l'humanité
D.Graeber & D.Wengrow (2021, LLL)
iBouquin:https://mega.nz/file/ZJIxzChI#RaK5HRLqZCmg7u6FpwGYpt8lrpjiJY_IWi9_KAkvLuc
Si t'as les moyens:
https://www.editionslesliensquiliberent.fr/livre-Au_commencement_%C3%A9tait-672-1-1-0-1.htmlPrésentation:
« Ceci n’est pas un livre. C’est un festin intellectuel. Il est profond, iconoclaste, rigoureux sur le plan factuel et passionnant à lire. »
– Nassim Nicholas TalebDepuis des siècles, nous nous racontons sur les origines des sociétés humaines et des inégalités sociales une histoire très simple. Pendant l’essentiel de leur existence sur terre, les êtres humains auraient vécu au sein de petits clans de chasseurs-cueilleurs. Puis l’agriculture aurait fait son entrée, et avec elle la propriété privée. Enfin seraient nées les villes, marquant l’apparition non seulement de la civilisation, mais aussi des guerres, de la bureaucratie, du patriarcat et de l’esclavage.
Ce récit pose un gros problème : il est faux.
David Graeber et David Wengrow se sont donné pour objectif de « jeter les bases d’une nouvelle histoire du monde ». Le temps d’un voyage fascinant, ils nous invitent à nous débarrasser de notre carcan conceptuel et à tenter de comprendre quelles sociétés nos ancêtres cherchaient à créer.
Foisonnant d’érudition, s’appuyant sur des recherches novatrices, leur ouvrage dévoile un passé humain infiniment plus intéressant que ne le suggèrent les lectures conventionnelles. Il élargit surtout nos horizons dans le présent, en montrant qu’il est toujours possible de réinventer nos libertés et nos modes d’organisation sociale.
Un livre monumental d’une extraordinaire portée intellectuelle dont vous ne sortirez pas indemne et qui bouleversera à jamais votre perception de l’histoire humaine.
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David Graeber (1961-2020)
est l’un des intellectuels les plus en vue et les plus ancrés dans les réalités socio-économiques de son époque.
Penseur iconoclaste, figure de proue d’Occupy Wall Street, anarchiste, historien de la dette, pourfendeur de la bureaucratie capitaliste, inventeur du concept des « bullshit jobs », il aura marqué son temps de sa malice et de son intelligence sensible.
Docteur en anthropologie et économiste, il enseignait ces deux matières à la London School of Economics.
Il est notamment l’auteur de Dette : 5 000 ans d’histoire (2013, LLL), Bureaucratie (2015, LLL) et Bullshit Jobs (2018, LLL).David Wengrow
est archéologue et professeur à l’Institut d’archéologie de l’University College de Londres (UCL).
Il a publié plusieurs livres et articles universitaires sur des sujets ayant trait à l’origine de l’écriture, l’art antique, les sociétés néolithiques ou encore l’émergence des premiers États en Égypte et en Mésopotamie. -
#DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow in Dawn of Everything, chapter 12 write:
All Wendat wars were, in fact, ‘mourning wars’, carried out to assuage the grief felt by close relatives of someone who had been killed.Typically, a war party would strike against traditional enemies, bringing back a few scalps and a small number of prisoners. Captive women and childre... MESSAGE CLIPPED
FULL TEXT: 6 https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1846#p1846
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... qualifications to enter bureaucracies are typically based on some form of knowledge that has virtually nothing to do with actual administration.
#DawnOfEverything : A New History of Humanity by #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow ; Ch 11.
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Each day the adult men of a town would gather to spend much of the day arguing about politics, in a spirit of rational debate, in conversations punctuated by the smoking of tobacco and drinking of caffeinated beverages.
#DawnOfEverything : A New History of Humanity by #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow ; Ch 11.
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Living in unbounded, eternal, largely imaginary groups is effectively what humans had been doing all along.
#DawnOfEverything : A New History of Humanity by #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow ; Ch 8.
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Humans tend to live simultaneously with the 150-odd people they know personally, and inside imaginary structures shared by perhaps millions or even billions of other humans. Sometimes, as in the case of modern nations, these are imagined as being based on kin ties; sometimes they are not.
In this, at least, modern fora... MESSAGE CLIPPED
#DawnOfEverything : A New History of Humanity by #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow ; Ch 8.
FULL TEXT: 8/8 https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1333#p1333
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... the mere fact that much of the world’s population now live in cities may not determine how we live, to anything like the extent you might assume...
#DawnOfEverything : A New History of Humanity by #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow ; Ch 8.
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Very large social units are always, in a sense, imaginary. Or, to put it in a slightly different way: there is always a fundamental distinction between the way one relates to friends, family, neighbourhood, people and places that we actually know directly, and the way one relates to empires, nations and metropolises, p... MESSAGE CLIPPED
#DawnOfEverything : A New History of Humanity by #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow ; Ch 8.
FULL TEXT: 6/6 https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1331#p1331
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CW: thread 21/
There's a brief section in Chapter 3 of #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow's #DawnOfEverything where they argue starting from a common evopsych claim: hierarchy-seeking behaviour after groups pass a certain number is an adaptation from our simian ancestors. Social inequality, therefore, is an effect of genetic destiny. Some erudite Pleistocene archaeologists, "forced to confront" recent evidence of royal burials and commons areas, propose no alternatives. Open and shut case, right?
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"Far from being expected to demonstrate personal charisma or the ability to outdo rivals, those who aspired to a role on the Council of Tlaxcala did so in a spirit of self-deprecation—even shame—and were required to subordinate themselves to the people of the city."
#DavidGraeber, #DavidWengrow, 2020
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/democracy/hiding-plain-sight
(1/3)
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This is not, then, a book about the origins of inequality. But it aims to answer many of the same questions in a different way. There is no doubt that something has gone terribly wrong with the world. A very small percentage of its population do control the fates of almost everyone else, and they are doing it in an increasingly disastrous fashion.
#DawnOfEverything : A New History of Humanity by #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow ; Ch 2.
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📕️Neuerwerbung der Gustav-Landauer-Bibliothek Witten:
David Graeber, David Wengrow:
Anfänge
Eine neue Geschichte der Menschheit
David Graeber und David Wengrow entfalten in ihrer Menschheitsgeschichte, wie sich die Anfänge unserer Zivilisation mit der Zukunft der Menschheit neu denken und verbinden lässt. Über Jahrtausende hinweg, lange vor der Aufklärung, wurde schon jede erdenkliche Form sozialer Organisation erfunden und nach Freiheit, Wissen und Glück gestrebt. Graeber und Wengrow zeigen, wie stark die indigene Perspektive das westliche Denken beeinflusst hat und wie wichtig ihre Rückgewinnung ist. Lebendig und überzeugend ermuntern sie uns, mutiger und entschiedener für eine andere Zukunft der Menschheit einzutreten und sie durch unser Handeln zu verändern.
(Quelle: perlentaucher
#Witten #GLBibW #DavidGraeber #DavidWengrow
(comment on Anfänge)
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If... future... hinges on our capacity to create something different... then what... matters is whether we... rediscover the freedoms that make us human in the first place... We are projects of collective self-creation... What if we treat people, from the beginning, as imaginative, intelligent, playful creatures who deserve to be understood as such?
#DawnOfEverything : A New History of Humanity by #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow ; Ch 1.
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Estos días he seguido con paso lento pero seguro con The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, de David Graeber y David Wengrow. Los segmentos sobre el choque cultural entre los europeos y las sociedades americanas antes/durante la era de la Ilustración me han gustado mucho, ya que tocan un tema muy interesante: ¿cómo se puede medir si una sociedad está más avanzada que otra? Históricamente, esta medida ha estado tremendamente influenciada por el nivel tecnológico y económico, pero no se tienen tan en cuenta muchos otros factores como la igualdad o la libertad de sus integrantes. Bajo esa premisa, uno podría argumentar que nuestra sociedad, donde mucha gente pasa hambre; no tiene acceso a una vivienda digna y vive bajo el mandato de otros porque estos simplemente tienen más dinero, está menos avanzada que una tribu de hace tres o cuatro siglos.
Antes de irme, quiero compartir un Kickstarter al que, ahora mismo, todavía le quedan 24 días para terminar. Se trata de la segunda impresión de Megastructures: The Visual Encyclopedia, un compendio visualmente impresionante sobre muchas de las grandes creaciones que solemos ver en muchos relatos de ciencia ficción. Esferas de Dyson, cilindros de O’Neil, mundos anillo o ascensores espaciales son algunos de los conceptos que pueden encontrarse en el libro. Si os mola el concepto, os animo a apoyarlo porque es posible que esta segunda impresión sea la última, al tratarse de una iniciativa independiente y sin el soporte de ninguna editorial comercial.
Y vosotros, ¿qué vais a leer esta semana?
https://fsolt.es/2024/02/11/que-vas-a-leer-esta-semana-12-02-2024/
#DavidGraeber #DavidWengrow #Historia #MegastructuresTheVisualEncyclopedia #TheDawnOfEverythingANewHistoryOfHumanity
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Esta semana terminé Apocalipsis Suave (reseña aquí), y la verdad es que si bien nada más terminarlo no me dijo mucho, tras un poco de reposo le vi varios aspectos bastante redentores. Tengo Microbe Hunters un poco en pausa, porque justo después de terminar con la novela de McIntosh cometí el error de abrir un libro que tenía mucho tiempo en la pila de pendientes: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, de David Graeber y David Wengrow (enlace a la wikiepdia aquí). Es un intento de contar la historia de los humanos partiendo del punto entre la época en la que nos agrupábamos en pequeños grupos nómadas de cazadores-recolectores y la adopción de la agricultura y los asentamientos permanentes con una serie de premisas radicalmente opuestas a las aceptadas comúnmente. Pensaba que no iba a engancharme en el lector digital porque normalmente estos libros los leo 100% en papel, ya que ahí me resulta mucho más sencillo hacer anotaciones y resaltar pasajes, pero las ideas que introducen los dos autores me están pareciendo tan sugerentes que posiblemente le de una primera lectura en el Kindle y lo termine releyendo más adelante en papel.
Y vosotros, ¿qué vais a leer esta semana?
https://fsolt.es/2024/02/04/que-vas-a-leer-esta-semana-2024-02-05/
#ApocalipsisSuave #DavidGraber #DavidWengrow #TheDawnOfEverythingANewHistoryOfHumanity #WillMc
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I picked up this book because I heard it has new insights into the daily lives of ancient humans, which is a thing I enjoy thinking about. The book delivers that for sure, but also, it’s a super radicalizing indictment of assumptions in social sciences and colonialism/capitalism in general, and suggests encouragingly that we have a choice about how our lives are organized. So glad I read it. #TheDawnOfEverything #DavidGraeber #DavidWengrow
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CW: Long thread/9
There's fakeouts and comeuppances, bravery and treachery, and above all, a sense of *possibility*.
Most of what I know about Cahokia - and the giant mounds it left behind near St Louis - I learned from #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow's brilliant work of heterodox history, *The Dawn of Everything*:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/08/three-freedoms/#anti-fatalism
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