#graeber — Public Fediverse posts

Les pierres levées (orimbato) de Madagascar notamment très présentes sur les hauts plateaux (en région Merina qui entoure la capitale), étaient généralement des symboles érigés en pleine campagne entre les villages pour marquer les grandes décisions des anciens rois et sceller leur mémoire. L'abolition de la monarchie vit l'identité de ces rois et la nature de ces décisions tomber malgré tout dans l'oubli pour la plupart (David Graeber, Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar)
Mais les pierres subsistent.

#stones #sacredstones #standingstones #orimbato #madagascar #imerina #hova #graeber #decolonialhistory #petractivism #pierre #pencil #drawing #illustration

"The common thread between #Graeber and #Bregman is a refusal to accept that the current organisation of #work and #economic life is natural, inevitable, or optimal."

@MissConstrue But there are historians who claim that this dynamic is not new.

David #Graeber & David #Wengrow presented a theory of #anthropology that posits this dynamic has been present throughout history.

Civilisational flourishing is grounded in co-operation, but authoritarians eventually arrive to take it over by role-playing as if they were always a part of it. This leads to a short-lived peak.

What Graeber & Wengrow saw always followed though, was loss & ruin, not success.

In part 9 of 13 discussions with Claude about the parables of the two valleys, the topic is David Graeber (and Wenrow's) evolution of domination.
👉https://philosophics.blog/2026/02/28/comrade-claude-9-david-graeber/?utm_source=masto
As usual, with a touch of Foucault.
#philosophy #blog #podcast #graeber #critique #power # ##subjugation #contracts #Locke #modernity #freedom #control

I think about this David #Graeber quote a lot:

> [S]tructural inequality—what I've been calling structural violence—invariably creates highly lopsided structures of the imagination. Since […] imagination tends to bring with it sympathy, the result is that victims of structural violence tend to care about its beneficiaries far more than those beneficiaries care about them. This might well be, after the violence itself, the single most powerful force preserving such relations.

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

Globalinfo: **Hoe Deerhoof geïnspireerd werd door de ideeën van David Graeber**

https://www.globalinfo.nl/recensies-enzo/hoe-deerhoof-geinspireerd-werd-door-de-ideeen-van-david-graeber/

De experimentele muziekband Deerhoof komt op tournee. Op de website van de ons veel te vroeg ontvallen anarchistische antropoloog David Graeber wordt gewezen op het…

#Recensiesenzo #Anarchisme #Antropologie #Cultuur #Graeber #Kunst #Muziek

@BlumeEvolution Vgl. Keynes: Er hatte vor rund 80 Jahren prognostiziert, dass im 21. Jhdt. nur 20% der Werktätigen reichen würden, um alle gut zu versorgen. Aus welchen Gründen trat dies nicht ein? David #Graeber: #Bullshitjobs, wir beschäftigen zu viele "Schläger", Klinkenputzer. Lakaien, Kesselflicker, Unternehmensberater ... Eine Transformation hin zu post-kapitalistischen Wirtschaften erscheint mir über kurz oder lang unumgänglich, wenn nicht alles zusammen brechen soll.

Original affluent society: Anthropologist's view that hunter-gatherer societies were affluent, that people had everything they needed to live well
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_affluent_society
#huntergatherer #anthropology #scarcity #society #history #sahlins #graeber #+

"#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/

#TheDawnofEverything”: David #Wengrow & the Late David #Graeber On a New History of #Humanity #yt

https://youtu.be/JDO28CPAPuM

@matiu_bidule #graeber is so duly missed 😭 much like #hitchens

"Companies like CNN or the Associated Press, they argue, are capitalist firms; it would be utterly naïve to imagine they would been willing to provide a friendly venue for anyone actively opposed to capitalism—let alone to carry anti-capitalist messages to the public." from https://www.davidgraeber.org/wp-content/uploads/2007-On-the-phenomenology-of-giant-puppets.pdf

Surely he read the prescient words of Walter Lippmann!

#Propaganda #WalterLippmann #Graeber #Anarchism

Argh. Whoever made this poster for “a carnival celebrating the life, work and ideas of David #Graeber” NEGLECTED TO INCLUDE THE DATE.

On 2nd September, 2020, IWW member and #anarchist #anthropologist David #Graeber died at the age of 59. He participated in various mobilizations such as occupy wall street.

His work was quite extensive and several are his contributions to #anarchism, to anthropology and to the relationship between the two, among his work we find:

Fragments of an anarchist anthropology.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://edicioneslasocial.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/fragmentosdeaafin___.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjksuLjqM3rAhU2ILkGHQHGBgoQFjASegQIChAB&usg=AOvVaw0orzQz1RRD0riPyi-7SxPj&cshid=1599144196816
-Shitty jobs.
https://www.rentabasicauniversal.es/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Trabajos-de-mierda_-Una-teoria-David-Graeber.pdf
-The utopia of rules.
-In debt
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://untdfdinero.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/graeber-2014-una-historia-alternativa.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjai8i7rc3rAhXIF7kGHYx2DtM4KBAWMAV6BAgFEAE&usg=AOvVaw2MTSvJrfDzvUbelFcBWOhd
-We are the 99%
https://papayas.pe/index.php/es/textos-pdf/textos-no-clasificados/item/11658-somos-el-99-pdf-david-graeber
-lost peoples
-The democracy project
-Direct action. An ethnography.
-He was doing an anthropological theory of value.
-Possibilities.
-On kings.
-Revolutions in reverse.
-Uprisings: An illustrated guide to popular rebellion!

I sometimes can't help but think Graeber might have accidentally schooled Thiel on how to be a supervillian.

Regardless, give this a watch when you have time.

Graeber, David, and Peter Thiel. “Where Did the Future Go?” Interview by John Summers. November 14, 2014. https://thebaffler.com/latest/graeber-thiel.

#Anarchism #Socialism #Longtermism #ComicBookVillians #Graeber

So a bookshelf in the Carnac museum made me realise that a main thesis in #Graeber and Wengrow - that democratic consensus preceded the Greeks by a long time and that hunter-gatherers already had sedentary societies experimenting with all sorts of political organisation - had been established in French #anthropology since 1982, most notably by Alain Testart. French reviews of Graeber/Wengrow pointed that out, as well as the fact they don’t quote Testart. I didn’t buy the book, and I don’t have the time to get into that, but it really seems pertinent to its reception.

Much food for thought in this article.

“Concretely, maybe what generative AI is proving is what David Graeber wrote about in Bullshit Jobs, what James Livingston wrote about in “Fuck Work”, that people are feeling more and more that what they do doesn’t matter. A recent scholarly response to Graeber argued that he was empirically wrong in that white-collar workers seemed to feel increasingly like their work mattered rather than less, though read carefully, the study also affirmed older findings that feelings about work are “episodic” and that many people do feel their work is meaningless, just not the people that Graeber thought felt that way. But maybe both Graeber and these critics are wrong in the sense that how people concretize their feelings in response to a survey or an interview and how they act in their work and towards their work provide different kinds of evidence, and we might have here a case of what economists call “revealed preference”. Revealed by the rapid spread of AI usage.”

https://timothyburke.substack.com/p/generative-ai-is-the-marshmallow

#ai #graeber #jobs

#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

"Al nostre país som #humans!, va dir el caçador. Per aquí diem que amb els regals es fan #esclaus, i amb els fuets, gossos."

"En deute" (#Debt) de David #Graeber
#lectures

Vaig comprar #Debt de #Graeber el 2015 i l'he començat a llegir tres vegades sense èxit, no m'agrada el seu to de professor descobrint-nos les grans veritats amagades, fins a aquest quart intent. El tercer capítol és molt interessant, el concepte de #deute primordial és molt, com a mínim, curiós.
#antropologia #economia

Deze mijnwerker begrijpt de wereldeconomie.

Doet me de denken aan deze quote van #Graeber:

Wie gedwongen is te werken voor mensen met macht begrijpt hun wereld beter dan zij zelf.

https://graeber.social/@DGI/114636350376192070

"Met AI weten de rijksten ter wereld een koperjackpot in Zambia te vinden" - https://nos.nl/l/2572869

Pourquoi les plateformes deviennent toutes "merdiques" ? - Blast le souffle de l'info

https://video.blast-info.fr/w/r9LWj7vUtQ1WmEyg3z9V7Y

avec du @pluralistic et du #graeber dedans

#enshittification #uberisation
#socialDumping

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