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.
…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, very active,…
…doing, and he was picking it up and distilling it and doing his own shuffle on it. And similarly with Rembrandt and Shostakovich and Beethoven, everybody else, all these people who are called genius actually sat in the middle of something that I call…