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Davig Graeber Podcast Week 01

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

Courage is borne out of vulnerability, not strength. This finding of Brené Brown’s research on shame and "wholeheartedness" shook the perfectionist ground beneath her own feet. And now it’s inspiring millions to reconsider the way they live, parent, and navigate relations with members of the opposite gender.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/brene-brown-on-vulnerability/4928

Brené Brown — The Courage to Be Vulnerable

Sociologist Dr Jeff Miley summarises some of his observations following a recent field visit to Rojava in northern Syria, and gives an overview of the political and social ideologies underpinning the Kurdish revolution.

Can the Revolution in Kurdish Syria succeed?

Anarchist anthropologist and lecturer at Goldsmiths University, David Graeber discusses his new book 'Debt; the first 5000 years' at THBTP salon. He discusses the relevance of debt to understanding our world today, the direct relationship of debt to morals, three modes of interaction (of which debt, through the mode of exchange, has a hegemony over others) and finally some discussion on monetary transactions and the relationship of money to power and nation states.

David Graeber on Debt at THBTP Salon

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.

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

Speaker(s): Professor David Harvey | David Harvey's politicised work on geography, social theory, urban political economy and capitalism has shaped academic debate for decades. He is one of the most cited social scientists in the world, and his works have been translated into multiple languages. Here, Harvey joins a panel of experts to explore his ideas - and alternative views. David Harvey (@profdavidharvey) is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology & Geography at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Michael Storper (@michaelstorper) is Professor of Economic Geography at LSE, and holds Professorships at Sciences-Po and UCLA. Jane Wills is Professor of Human Geography, Queen Mary, University of London. Murray Low is Associate Professor of Human Geography in the LSE Department of Geography & Environment. The LSE Department of Geography & Environment (@LSEGeography) is a centre of international academic excellence in economic, urban and development geography, environmental social science and climate change.

The Power of Ideas: a discussion with David Harvey [Audio]

Rojava Special with Janet Biehl

A discussion with Janet Biehl on Rojava and the works of Murray Bookchin. We go in-depth on how people in Kurdish region are developing an autonomous, democratic, stateless society in the midst of a warzone.  Popular for being the most effective fighting force standing up to ISIS/Daesh(see Kobane), what is really happening here has largely been ignored in the mainstream media.  What do  democratic institutions look like in the cantons?  How do you create real feminist institutions in a traditionally male dominated society?  What do alternatives to policing and jailing look like?  How do you create a horizontal, liberated society while under siege?  

The discussion is framed around the Murray Bookchin’s life-long critical exploration of revolutionary ideas and praxis.  We talk about Murray's evolution from Marxism, to social ecology, to post-scarcity anarchism to communalism and how this constant exploration of ideas have helped form the basis for a revolutionary society in the heart of the Middle East.  

Janet Biehl’s new book, “Ecology or Catastrophe” is available now through Oxford Books.
 

Solecast 20 w/ Janet Biehl on Rojava & Murray Bookchin

Conference on social ecology and communalism held in Istanbul on 14 February 2016.

Janet Biehl - Communalism According To Murray Bookchin - Istanbul 14 February 2016

FYI this podcast was recorded before Tuesday (before Cruz dropped out and Trump won Indiana)

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Garry Shandling Tribute, Hillary's Corruption, New Cold War Continues

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

David Graeber discusses Debt: the first 5000 years

Cities have long been the pivotal sites of political revolutions, where deeper currents of social and political change are fleshed out. Consequently, they have been the subject of much utopian thinking about alternatives. But at the same time, they are also the centres of capital accumulation, and therefore the frontline for struggles over who has the right to the city, and who dictates the quality and organization of daily life. Is it the developers and financiers, or the people? David Harvey’s Rebel Cities places the city at the heart of both capital and class struggles, looking at locations ranging from Johannesburg to Mumbai, and from New York City to Sao Paulo. By exploring how cities might be reorganized in more socially just and ecologically sane ways, Harvey argues that cities can become the focus for anti-capitalist resistance.

Here's the audio from Harvey's Festival of Ideas talk in Bristol this evening. It covers issues around cities, capital accumulation, sub-prime mortgages and the financial crash, Occupy, and how a coalition of the urban dispossessed can form a meaningful alternative to neoliberal hegemony.

David Harvey - Rebel Cities

David Harvey Conferences-I: "Crisis of Capitalism and the Urban Struggle" (June 9, 2012) 

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David Graeber follows the rules, to the boring / fascinating heart of bureaucracy itself.

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