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.
…about genius. which is the process of singling out certain people in art history and saying those are the important ones, Picasso, Rembrandt, Shostakovich, whatever. Whenever you look at any of those artists, you find that they lived and drew from a very,…
…lived and drew from a very, very active, flourishing cultural scene. And they were only one of the elements in that scene. Picasso, for example, was stealing from everyone he could. I don't blame him. I'm not criticizing him for it. He was very, very…