David Graeber - Conclusion
David Graeber
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Jul 19, 202625 March 2012
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Currencies are telling of our current time. Debt, labor, commodification, ownership, and consumerism structure and characterize contemporary life and academia. From the monetization and protection of intellectual property to the debts that students accrue, from the exploitation of adjunct labor to t
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The speaker argues that post-war Keynesian capitalism and later neoliberal debt-based capitalism both rely on exclusion and eventually collapse under crises of inclusion. They suggest alternatives already exist in everyday non-market and commons-based practices, and use universities and business schools as examples of how certificates and money shape bureaucracy, debt, and experimentation.
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