David Graeber, “Hope in Common” | Interactivist Info Exchange. Hope in Common David Graeber We seem to have reached an impasse. Capitalism as we know it appears to be coming apart. But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. Organized resistance appears scattered and incoherent; the global justice movement a shadow of its former self. There is good reason to believe that, in a generation or so, capitalism will no longer exist: for the simple reason that it’s impossible to maintain an engine of perpetual growth forever on a finite planet. The first question we should be asking is: How did this happen? Hopelessness isn’t natural. The spirals of financialization and endless string of economic bubbles we’ve been experience are a direct result of this apparatus.
And since the bubble had built on the destruction of futures, once it collapsed there appeared to be—at least for the moment—simply nothing left. The effect however is clearly temporary. Meanwhile, most of the “third world debt” has simply vanished. Graeber_sadness.pdf (objeto application/pdf) Z Space. New Left Review - David Graeber: The New Anarchists. New Left Review 13, January-February 2002 Is the ‘anti-globalization movement’ anything of the kind? Active resistance is true globalization, David Graeber maintains, and its repertoire of forms is currently coming from the arsenal of a reinvented anarchism. It’s hard to think of another time when there has been such a gulf between intellectuals and activists; between theorists of revolution and its practitioners. Writers who for years have been publishing essays that sound like position papers for vast social movements that do not in fact exist seem seized with confusion or worse, dismissive contempt, now that real ones are everywhere emerging.
It’s particularly scandalous in the case of what’s still, for no particularly good reason, referred to as the ‘anti-globalization’ movement, one that has in a mere two or three years managed to transform completely the sense of historical possibilities for millions across the planet. A globalization movement? Billionaires and clowns. In These Times - Give It Away.
Give It Away By David Graeber Have you noticed how there aren't any new French intellectuals any more? There was a veritable flood in the late '70s and early '80s: Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Kristeva, Lyotard, de Certeau ... but there has been almost no one since. Trendy academics and intellectual hipsters have been forced to endlessly recycle theories now 20 or 30 years old, or turn to countries like Italy or even Slovenia for dazzling meta-theory. There are a lot of reasons for this. Of course this in itself is hardly going to faze the sort of Americans who read Deleuze and Guattari. As a result, some of the most interesting scholars in France today you never hear about at all. A word of background. By all accounts, though, Mauss was never taken completely seriously in his role of heir apparent; a man of extraordinary erudition (he knew at least a dozen languages, including Sanskrit, Maori and classical Arabic), he still, somehow, lacked the gravity expected of a grand professeur.
Jason Adams, "David Graeber's Anarchist Anthropology" | Interactivist Info Exchange. Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. Graeber_PPP_14_0.pdf (objeto application/pdf) David Graeber. David Rolfe Graeber (/ˈɡreɪbər/; born 12 February 1961) is an American anthropologist, author, anarchist and activist who is currently Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics.[1] Specialising in theories of value and social theory, he was an assistant professor and associate professor of anthropology at Yale University from 1998 to 2007, although Yale controversially declined to rehire him.[2] From Yale, he went on to become a Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London from Fall 2007 to Summer 2013.[3] Graeber has been involved in social and political activism, including the protests against the 3rd Summit of the Americas in Quebec City in 2001 and the World Economic Forum in New York City in 2002.
He is also a leading figure in the Occupy Wall Street movement. Early life[edit] Graeber graduated from Phillips Academy Andover in 1978 and received his B.A. from the State University of New York at Purchase in 1984. Academia[edit] Authorship[edit]