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Special Rebroadcast: David Graeber on "Bullshit Jobs"

Podcast EpisodePodcastSoundCloud7 September 2020David GraeberSpeaker#anthropology#climatechange#bureaucracy

Last week, on September 2, radical anthropologist and Occupy Wall Street organizer David Graeber passed away at a hospital in Venice at the age of 59. In their obituary, the New York Times called him a "caustic critic of inequality." Today we remember David by re-airing our Labor Day interview with

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STAFF PICKS: David Graeber / Bureaucracy and Bullshit Jobs

Podcast EpisodePodcastSoundCloud26 April 2022David GraeberSpeaker#capitalism#democracy#london

Dan replays two interviews Chuck did with the late, great David Graeber, the first about his book on bureaucracy "The Utopia of Rules," the second on the book "Bullshit Jobs." https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/the-utopia-of-rules/ https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Bullshit-Jobs/David-Graeber/978

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Against the Double Blackmail

LectureLive EventSlavoj Žižek – Collected Recordings20 April 2016Slavoj ŽižekSpeaker#philosophy#islam#violence

Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours In this talk Pro­fessor Žižek will talk about his new book, Against the Double Black­mail: Refugees, Ter­ror and Other Troubles with the Neigh­bours. From within the safety of Europe Žižek argues we face two ver­sions of ideo­lo­gical black­mail – open-door solid­ar­ity with refugees and draw­bridge-minded pro­tec­tion­ism. Both pro­long the prob­lem – so, con­fron­ted with this double black­mail, we find ourselves back at the great ques...

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