#davidgraeber — Public Fediverse posts

#caturday finally I have a picture of #thedawnofeveryrhing worth #sharing !
#davidgraeber #davidwengrow

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

Jeg har oversat Gæld: De første 5000 år af David Graeber

Det har taget mig 10 år og jeg er stadig kæmpe fan af bogen. Jeg synes den er vildt vigtig og glæder mig til at læse den igen med andre på dansk.

Der er paneldebat i Politikens Boghandel nu på mandag 23 marts med Emma Holten, Sine Plambech og Lotte Folke.

Kom ind og hør om gælden, pengenes, økonomiens og patriarkatets historie plus en masse andet. Og skaf bogen!
https://jppol.dk/kalender/emma-holten-og-sine-plambech-om-david-graebers-gaeld-de-foerste-5000-aar

#Gæld #DavidGraeber #Bog

@don

Bei Gläubiger denke ich sofort an das Werk von #DavidGraeber: Schulden, die letzten 5000 Jahre:

Religionen haben mit Schuld zu tun, mit Schulden, die bleiben ...

Spiritualität kann jeder Mensch als den Sinn in seinem Leben und die Verbundenheit mit Natur und ihren Kräften entwickeln, wenn er / sie sich von den billig-Lösungen der letztendlich mörderischen Religionen befreit hat, "#Frieden" ist nur ein Versprechen, wie "#ewigesLeben" und die #Apokalypse, die #US-Mächtige veranstalten

@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@)

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

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

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

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

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

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.
>>

https://youtu.be/GEJ8WAiHRE0

#GroßraumPhantastik #IchWillEIneBessereKatastrophe

“#TheDawnOfEverything”: #DavidWengrow & the Late #DavidGraeber On a New #HistoryOfHumanity -

2021

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JDO28CPAPuM&pp=QAFIAQ%3D%3D

#book #DemocracyNow

"#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."

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11/14/economic-questions-the-david-graeber-question/comment-page-1/

"#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."

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11/14/economic-questions-the-david-graeber-question/comment-page-1/

"#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."

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11/14/economic-questions-the-david-graeber-question/comment-page-1/

"#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."

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11/14/economic-questions-the-david-graeber-question/comment-page-1/

"#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."

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11/14/economic-questions-the-david-graeber-question/comment-page-1/

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.

@DGI #TheDawnofEverything

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

New read alert: *Bullshit Jobs: A Theory* by David Graeber 📘

Graeber argues powerfully that many modern jobs are utterly pointless—even the workers know it. He classifies them humorously but hauntingly as flunkies, goons, duct-tapers, box-tickers, and taskmasters. Beyond the taxonomy, it’s a sharp critique of work culture, its psychological toll, and the myths tying labor to self-worth.

If you’re disillusioned with hollow “busywork,” this book is a must. Thought-provoking, unsettling, and uncompromising.

#BullshitJobs #WorkCulture #MeaningfulWork #Anthropology #DavidGraeber”

#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

What Is The Myth of Barter?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JB9BA9V5aI

“Since the dawn of civilization, humans would trade shoes for shirts and spears for food. And then money was created because that was too complicated.”
Turns out this is the base lie that keeps us in chains. Here’s how it really went…

#Barter #Myth #Lies #Control #Dehumanization #AdamSmith #Marx #DavidGraeber #GiftEconomy #SocialSolidarity

What Is The Myth of Barter?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JB9BA9V5aI

“Since the dawn of civilization, humans would trade shoes for shirts and spears for food. And then money was created because that was too complicated.”
Turns out this is the base lie that keeps us in chains. Here’s how it really went…

#Barter #Myth #Lies #Control #Dehumanization #AdamSmith #Marx #DavidGraeber #GiftEconomy #SocialSolidarity

What Is The Myth of Barter?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JB9BA9V5aI

“Since the dawn of civilization, humans would trade shoes for shirts and spears for food. And then money was created because that was too complicated.”
Turns out this is the base lie that keeps us in chains. Here’s how it really went…

#Barter #Myth #Lies #Control #Dehumanization #AdamSmith #Marx #DavidGraeber #GiftEconomy #SocialSolidarity

What Is The Myth of Barter?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JB9BA9V5aI

“Since the dawn of civilization, humans would trade shoes for shirts and spears for food. And then money was created because that was too complicated.”
Turns out this is the base lie that keeps us in chains. Here’s how it really went…

#Barter #Myth #Lies #Control #Dehumanization #AdamSmith #Marx #DavidGraeber #GiftEconomy #SocialSolidarity

What Is The Myth of Barter?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JB9BA9V5aI

“Since the dawn of civilization, humans would trade shoes for shirts and spears for food. And then money was created because that was too complicated.”
Turns out this is the base lie that keeps us in chains. Here’s how it really went…

#Barter #Myth #Lies #Control #Dehumanization #AdamSmith #Marx #DavidGraeber #GiftEconomy #SocialSolidarity

Vous pouvez apprendre ça par coeur :
L'indispensable David Graeber sur la façon dont le capitalisme est intrinsèquement, ontologiquement nocif et ne peut être réformé.

#Politique
#Capitalisme
#LeCapitalismeTue
#DavidGraeber
#Energie
#Environement
#Polution
#Ecologie
#LEcologieSansLutteDesClassesCestDuJardinage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6oOj7BzciA&pp=ygUoZ3JhZWJlciBvbiB3ZWFwb25pc2F0aW9uIG9mIGFudGlzZW1pdGlzbQ%3D%3D

#DNN #DoubleDownNews :graeber:

#DavidGraeber on the #WeaponisationOfLabourAntisemitism

#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.html

Présentation:
« 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 Taleb

Depuis 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.
[LLL]

=============

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

@bobojp @Linkshaender @Pierrette @xChaos

#tg594426640 #tg434928726 #tg845716998

... 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.

@donar @Pierrette @xChaos

https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1508#p1508

#tg845716998

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.

@donar @xChaos

11 https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1507#p1507

#tg845716998

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.

9/9 https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1334#p1334

@donar @xChaos

#tg845716998

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

@donar @xChaos

#tg845716998

... 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.

7/7 https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1332#p1332

@donar @xChaos

#tg845716998

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

@donar @xChaos

#tg845716998

"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)

#democracy #RepresentativeGovernment

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.

#tg845716998

📕️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.

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#Witten #GLBibW #DavidGraeber #DavidWengrow

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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.

@donar @xChaos

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"Traditional" centrism, from a historical perspective, has not been a political tactic (as in a tactic designed to implement a given political project or capture power) so much as a purely electoral tactic which consists of sitting between the major political factions to be decisive when there is no absolute majority in a chamber, then negotiating  your aliance therefore artificially inflating your political impact.
Centrist organizations will obviously always deny it, but even a cursory look through the history of the centre parties will show you there is no ideological or political fundation to their positions.
That is why they always became so permeable to technocratical ideas (technocracy arguably being a conservative ideology in itself) in contexts of economic growth and social stability: technocracy is the belief that you do not govern a country, you only administer it through contingencies on the basis of principles determined by the institutions themselves. As if institutions were not man-made but god-given or something. The only true centrist belief is that centrism should perpetuate itself.

A phenomenon Graeber does not analize here is the fact that this new "extreme center" is incarnated by figures   from political formations that do not present themselves as centrist parties. As a matter of fact if you ask them they will most likely insist that they are neither right nor left... While refusing to identify with centrism.

My hypothesis is that this development is a consequence of the inescapable political, cultural and mediatical footprint of neo-liberalism. You can not expect to sustain your position, your career in the electoral game while governing against neo-liberal politics any more, but you can campaign as if you are opposing it, present a discourse that is "critical" of neo-liberalism with an understanding that these opinions expressed will be inconsecuential once you reach power. This simulacra is what we call the extreme center.

After a few election cycles this strategy becomes ineffective, as you can only campaign to the left to then pivot and govern to the right so many times. Betrayal can never foster fidelity. And that is the era of major political crisis we are entering now on the world stage that will soon manifest itself in profound institutional crises in many countries.

https://youtu.be/-9afwZON8dU?feature=shared
#graeber #davidgraeber #center #centrism #extremecenter #macron #obama #starmer #keirstarmer #anarchism #electoralpolitics #politics #anarchy #neoliberal #neoliberalism #liberals

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

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

April 2020 #DDN #DoubleDownNews
The #Weaponisation of #Antisemitism | #DavidGraeber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6oOj7BzciA

#DavidGraeber vs #peterthiel Where Did the #Future Go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF0cz9OmCGw

#fyou #peter and your #nzs 🖕🖕🖕

@straphanger
Superways might be the most abusive construct known to existence.

#superways #roadWidening #cities #overdevelopment #fascism #bigConstruction #batshitConstruction #DavidGraeber

Hello w̶o̶r̶l̶d̶ Set-of-interconnected-self-actualising-machines!

I intend this to be somewhat of an introduction, although I do realise that it would constitute a rather bizarre greeting in real life. This won't be a personal account, by that I mean I don't intend to post personal content (i.e. about my real world identity). This isn't really for anonymity, despite admittedly being quite a shy person, I think it's more to do with not wanting to attempt a serious explanation of my context, something which I doubt is achievable through this medium. For me underrepresentation is better than misrepresentation, although I understand if people find my presentation here dishonest or unaccountable.

I'll use this account partly for listening, a sampling spoon through which to experience the soup of conversation and thought. I'll also do some tooting, I like this word, I might have said contributing, tossing new, or maybe reused, ingredients into the soup, but that gives the impression, I think, of some final objective, an endpoint. Most likely, listening will be the larger of these two parts, and at least for the short term, both parts, the whole, will occupy very little of my time. Expect sporadicity and inconsistency!

I also wanted to say something about what I am interested in, this is difficult since if I just say a lot of words then what is there to relate my meaning, my intentions, to the meaning which you understand? "Language disguises thought" - Wittgenstein. Well after much deliberation and many sleepless nights I decided to... just say a lot of words, although do bear in mind that the following list is just that, merely a collection of words that I, at the time of writing, happened to perceive as having meanings that corresponded, perhaps imperfectly, to topics that I am interested in. Interested does not necessarily mean fully-endorse/believe/would-describe-myself-as/is-knowledgeable-about.

#philosophy #absurdism #existentialism #anarchism #communism #anticapitalism #mutualaid #prefiguration #ontology #phenomenology #poststructuralism #structuralism #mathematics #chaos #topology #imagination #art #education #linguistics #literature #music #machines #networks #cybernetics #systems #sustainability #ecology #technology #sciencefiction #utopia #DavidGraeber #DavidWengrow #MurrayBookchin #NoamChomsky #PeterKropotkin #AdamCurtis #KenLoach #AlbertCamus #GillesDeleuze #JacquesDerrida #JeanPaulSartre #MarkFisher #SimoneDeBeauvoir #FranzKafka #GeorgeOrwell #PercyByssheShelley #MaryShelley #UrsulaKLeGuin

An introduction and collection of #s

I work on how the #urban can be a source of #political #transformation.

My methods/tools are #psychogeography #participatory #performance #PervasiveGames #Process #Design

I use concepts from #henrilefebvre #hannaharendt #walterbenjamin #chantalmouffe #davidgraeber #bellhooks #paulofreire

Research into #municipalism #ArabSpring #OccupyMovement #NonRepresentationalTheory #SituatedLearning #affect #intersectionality #echolocation #SoundArt

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