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On this week’s show Aaron Bastani is joined by David Graeber author of ‘Debt: the First 5,000 Years’ as they discuss debt embedding it within the context of the Great Recession.

Debt>Debt>Debt - Interview With David Graeber

David Graeber and David Harvey discuss their new books, Debt: The First 5000 Years, and Rebel Cities, respectively

01 David Graeber And David Harvey - Rebel Cities

Anthropologist David Graeber explores the bureaucratic dimension that rules our lives, takes our money, and stretches between the public and private, the right and the left, between capitalism and whatever comes next.

David's new book is The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy.

http://www.mhpbooks.com/books/the-utopia-of-rules/

David Graeber is an anthropologist, writer and activist.


David Graeber follows the rules, to the boring / fascinating heart of bureaucracy itself.

read the full article here:
EN: http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
DE: http://strikemag.org/unsinniger-jobs/

On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs

Inspired by David Graeber's audio series on debt, Jeff Dorchen dusts off Human Credit from the good ideas pile, and makes the case for valuing humans for their innate humanity, not how much money they don't have.

According to his contacts on LinkedIn, Jeff Dorchen can do just about anything. He’s a visual artist, songwriter/musician, actor, essayist, poet, playwright and screenwriter.

Against owing: Re-introducing the radical notion of the Human Credit.

David Graeber, Laura Bear and Nayanika Mathur were recently in conversation at the London School of Economics (LSE) on the anthropology of bureaucracy. They reflected on the connections between their recent publications that propose a new anthropology of bureaucracy.

Discussing a New Anthropology of Bureaucracy: Part I

Sustainable transport advocate Jeremy Mendelson discusses bullshit jobs, a term coined by anthropologist David Graeber.

You can read about bullshit jobs here: http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/activists-plastered-the-tube-with-posters-telling-people-their-jobs-are-bullshit/

Follow Jeremy on Twitter @Critical Transit and check out his podcasts Critical Transit: http://www.criticaltransit.com/ and Transit Matters: http://transitmatters.info/

This is a shortened version of Nick and Jeremy's discussion on bullshit jobs, you can hear the full thing here: http://progressivepodcastaustralia.com/2015/10/26/114/

Bullshit Jobs

I sat down with David Graeber to discuss his new book and radical politics.

David Graeber discusses Debt: the first 5000 years

Currencies are telling of our current time. Debt, labor, commodification, ownership, and consumerism structure and characterize contemporary life and academia. From the monetization and protection of intellectual property to the debts that students accrue, from the exploitation of adjunct labor to the re-productions of class lines, this dis/Conference seeks critical engagement with what has currency and what serves as currency in education and life today.

In contrast to traditional conference formats, this dis/Conference seeks to facilitate open, horizontal education through substantive knowledge sharing, inquiry, critique, and discussion. Together with David Graeber - anarchist, occupier, and anthropologist - we will engage the economies of academia by subverting its dominant forms of knowledge production. In the process, we will participate in the purposeful creation of an alternative model for scholarly engagement, beyond mere discussion. Under this model, our primary resources will be ourselves. Everyone - inside or outside of academia - is welcome.

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