c/david-graeber
Lectures, interviews, and talks by David Graeber — anthropologist, anarchist, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Bullshit Jobs, and The Dawn of Everything.
…Right, right. We are speaking with David Graeber. By the way, this is an amazing article. And The Baffler, I want to thank John Summers and all the great people over at The Baffler for hooking me up with David because it's a great new issue of…
…buy it. That was supposed to be its strong point. The plague of bullshit... Sorry, I can't get it. The plague of BSB as John... of these jobs, that are pointless jobs, yes, is that they are a relatively recent thing. I mean, it's more of the sort of…
…Fergus F. says intellectual property rights. Shannon N. says a Calvin peeing on a Calvin peeing on a Calvin peeing on a Calvin, etc. John T. says after 9 p.m. a dimly lit alley in Oak Park if one can be found. Braden S. picks up on Shannon's theme,…
…buy it. That was supposed to be its strong point. The plague of bullshit... Sorry, God, I did it. The plague of BSB as John... of these jobs, that are pointless jobs, yes, is that they are a relatively recent thing. I mean, it's more of the sort of…
…And thus you end up with preferring ISIS as an ally to a group of eco-feminists, which is essentially what's happening right now. John W., what possible route to statehood is there for the Kurds in the long term if it exists at all? You've already…
…with little scrutiny, so that he could use the chaos, throwing society off balance, to rush through the right-wing policies. Even John Major and Tony Blair have been more vocal than Starmer about condemning Johnson. As a TUC's online congress from the 14th…
…contest anything in any meaningful way? That's a situation that seems to me ripe for rethinking. I don't see any. Oh, there is one. John. John. I just wonder how your argument works if there is no development. in the in the past or the future uh... I…
…anything in any meaningful way? That's a situation that seems to me ripe for rethinking. I don't see any. Oh, there is one. John. John. I just wonder how your argument works if there is no development. in the in the past or the future uh... I perhaps…
…we're in another one now with artificial intelligence. The fact is, Marx actually has a very good thing to say about this, about John Stuart Mill, he says, you know, John Stuart Mill, he says in the beginning of the chapter on machinery, had a real…
…intelligence. The fact is, Marx actually has a very good thing to say about this, about John Stuart Mill, he says, you know, John Stuart Mill, he says in the beginning of the chapter on machinery, had a real problem. He couldn't understand why it was…
…and thus you end up with preferring ISIS as an ally to a group of eco-feminists, which is essentially what's happening right now. John W., what possible route to statehood is there for the Kurds in the long term if it exists at all? You've already…
…to move away from it. It becomes this relationship becomes so violent, it becomes legal. It can become a weapon, like John Perkins would say, economic hitman. Weaponize debt. Weaponize debt. of already the word of acceptance of this relationship. So one…
…of my version uh part two is titled the world of credit and the world of interest So even at the same time as John Locke and Newton, I don't know, it's mainly Locke, but I guess it gets called Newtonian economics is what Graeber calls it. And again,…
…the very end of the chapter. Go ahead, Peter. yeah I I I feel like there there's actually uh a lot of validity to what John is saying I feel that in my own circumstances but I also feel like um When the decision about Roe v. Wade came down, and…
…are a whole lot of almost clichés in the economics profession. Money is a veil, Irving Fisher said. I think it was John Stuart Mill who said there's nothing that could be more insignificant than money. The idea that money is neutral dominates mainstream…
My name is John Summers, and I'm editor of the Baffler Magazine, which is sponsoring this discussion tonight. The question is very simple, but also broad-ranged. What's the matter with America, and what does technology have to do with it? That's the…
…were knitted together By an ideology and it's an ideology that had lots, you know and drawing attention to this I feel like John McCain or Bob Dole or something like you you in greats. You don't understand the sacrifices that were made but in fact…
…don't even see them anymore. We can't imagine doing things any other way. And computers have played a key role in this. John Stuart Mill has this famous line, of course, Never has a labor-saving device been invented that actually saved labor. It always…
…solidarity group within I thought Corbyn was the movement he represents. that Lee was founded by two guys, James Schneider and John Landsman, both of whom are Jewish, is now being represented as somehow an anti-Semitic organization. We're the only guys who…
…as we forgive those who trespass against us. Translated into this odd private property terms. But the original Aramaic and the original John Wycliffe translation is debt. Forgive us our debts just as we forgive those who owe us money. But of course there's…