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David Graeber is an anthropologist and sometime activist currently teaching at Goldsmiths, University of London. He did his original fieldwork in Madagascar, and has written on the nature of value, direct action, money, manners, debt, fetishism, consumption, revolution, and democracy. He has also been occasionally known to occupy things.

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We're proud to present this talk by David Graeber and David Wengrow, entitled The Myth of the Stupid Savage: Rousseau's Ghost and the Future of Political Anthropology.

Originally presented at the PPA+ Conference at the University of Amsterdam in May 2019.

Article:

http://www.journaldumauss.net/?La-sagesse-de-Kandiaronk-la-critique-indigene-le-mythe-du-progres-et-la

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Peter Thiel: We live in an advanced, technological society which is too sophisticated for a "radical democracy."

Also, Peter Thiel: In spite of all our advanced, technologicalology, we can't handle the complexity of a "radical democracy"

Peter Thiel: "Radical democracy" would require too much planning and bureaucracy, which is not ideal.

Also, Peter Thiel: Your radical democracy COULD NOT POSSIBLY plan and be bureaucratic, and that is not ideal.

It's all in the transcript folks. The definition of diabolical (scattered). Sad. Pathetic.

A debut of new research and analysis, focused on emotions and the affective register—love! shame! intimacy!

What happens when we put lov...

David Lynch doesn't do a lot of interviews. The Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive creator usually just lets his work speak for itself. But he was excited to talk to Rachel about his new album coming out this summer, Cellophane Memories. And he also was game to dive into his love for transcendental meditation, a fateful childhood psychosomatic illness and a memorable encounter with a Buddha statue.

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Megan Prelinger is a cultural historian and an outsider librarian. In 2004 she co-founded the Prelinger Library in San Francisco with her partner Rick Prelinger. A community workshop, this independent…

Samia Henni is a writer, historian, educator, and curator whose work spans the realms of architectural history and colonial studies, and addresses questions of archives. With a sharp focus on colonial…

In this episode of Terms of Service, host Mary Camacho engages with Nathan

Schneider, assistant professor of media studies at the University of Colorado

Boulder and director of the Media Economies Design Lab. Together, they explore

the challenges of building digital communities, the nuanced relationship between

decentralisation and centralised power, and the need for democratic practices in

online

On May 23, 2024, Maria Ressa, a recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, addressed the graduating Class of 2024.

One of the great writers of contemporary short stories in the Flannery O'Connor tradition, Joy Williams writes about salvation, damnation and the rot of modern culture