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A platform for projects related to David Graeber’s legacy, developing his ideas and projects that will take on a life of their own, continuing and contributing to his work.

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Tomorrow we will host a livestream about Decolonization.

Kadija George Sesay who is a literary activist, writer, and scholar, she will speak and answer your questions. Come along!

www.youtube.com/live/RvoB6mg...
The Decolonisation of Radical Black Publishers with Kadija George Sesay
YouTube video by Institute of David Graeber
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Tomorrow we will host a livestream about Decolonization.

Kadija George Sesay who is a literary activist, writer, and scholar, she will speak and answer your questions. Come along!

www.youtube.com/live/RvoB6mg...
The Decolonisation of Radical Black Publishers with Kadija George Sesay
YouTube video by Institute of David Graeber
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January 28, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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"Direct action means insisting on your right to act as if you’re already free. If someone is doing something bad, you try to stop them, in the way you’d hope anyone would act in a free and just society. If a bunch of cops intervene, you do not treat them like authorities, you act as if they were a bunch of guys in blue costumes with weapons — that is, basically, a violent street gang." . - David Graeber
January 26, 2026 at 4:19 AM
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The actor, Edward Norton, calls for a General Strike!

"What they are doing in Minnesota with the strike needs to expand. We should be talking about a national General and Economic Strike."
January 26, 2026 at 7:08 AM
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The actor, Edward Norton, calls for a General Strike!

"What they are doing in Minnesota with the strike needs to expand. We should be talking about a national General and Economic Strike."
January 26, 2026 at 7:08 AM
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"Direct action means insisting on your right to act as if you’re already free. If someone is doing something bad, you try to stop them, in the way you’d hope anyone would act in a free and just society. If a bunch of cops intervene, you do not treat them like authorities, you act as if they were a bunch of guys in blue costumes with weapons — that is, basically, a violent street gang." . - David Graeber
January 26, 2026 at 4:19 AM
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They want you to feel hopeless and believe that nothing can improve.
"Hopelessness isn’t natural. It needs to be produced. If we really want to understand this situation, we have to begin by understanding that for decades we have seen the construction of a vast bureaucratic apparatus for the creation and maintenance of hopelessness, a kind of giant machine that is designed, first and foremost, to destroy any sense of possible alternative futures." . - David Graeber
January 23, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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They want you to feel hopeless and believe that nothing can improve.
"Hopelessness isn’t natural. It needs to be produced. If we really want to understand this situation, we have to begin by understanding that for decades we have seen the construction of a vast bureaucratic apparatus for the creation and maintenance of hopelessness, a kind of giant machine that is designed, first and foremost, to destroy any sense of possible alternative futures." . - David Graeber
January 23, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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Travail, dette, bureaucratie, démocratie : David Graeber continue d’éclairer les impasses de nos institutions. Une relecture essentielle à l’occasion d’une nouvelle publication collective.
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David Graeber ou l’art de défaire les évidences - AOC media
La récente publication d’un ouvrage collectif consacré à David Graeber, ainsi que la traduction commentée d’un de ses textes, offrent l’occasion de revisiter la portée actuelle de ses analyses. Ses ré...
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January 23, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Welcome to David Graeber’s music library.
We’ve compiled a playlist from David Graeber’s music library, featuring influential anti-war songs that shaped the movements he often wrote about.
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The Vietnam Syndrome: 6 Anti-War Songs - David Graeber Music Library
In a 2011 interview with Ross Wolff, David Graeber discussed how neoliberalism responded to the anti-war protests of the late 1960s. “This made me think of what neoliberalism is really about: it’s a p...
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January 21, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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Chickens coming home to roost
January 20, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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the way a government treats refugees is very instructive as it shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it.
January 20, 2026 at 2:52 AM
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the way a government treats refugees is very instructive as it shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it.
January 20, 2026 at 2:52 AM
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What does it mean to care for cultural memory?

John Peel’s legendary archive offers one answer—through sound, broadcasting, and decades of independent culture.

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John Peel’s legendary archive
John Peel Archive is a public digital project that opens up the legendary record collection of BBC DJ John Peel as a living resource rather than a frozen
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January 19, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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The Museum of Care:

Open-Source Survival Kit Collection. The talk is about the ideas behind setting up the David Graeber Institute and the Museum of Care.

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39C3 - The Museum of Care: Open-Source Survival Kit Collection
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January 19, 2026 at 6:37 AM
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'What finance really is, is playing around with other peoples' debts.'
January 18, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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If you are wondering why ICE are attacking and arresting Native Americans who are obviously not migrants, it is because it was never about whether you are a migrant or not, It was about whether or not you are part of the Herrenvolk.
January 16, 2026 at 1:38 AM
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'What finance really is, is playing around with other peoples' debts.'
January 18, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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In Denmark, you get free healthcare, free university education, a solid state pension and 5-star public transport.

The USA have people going bankrupt to pay medical fees, many with huge student loan debts and ICE terror on top of it all.

If you were from Greenland - who would you choose?
January 17, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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In Denmark, you get free healthcare, free university education, a solid state pension and 5-star public transport.

The USA have people going bankrupt to pay medical fees, many with huge student loan debts and ICE terror on top of it all.

If you were from Greenland - who would you choose?
January 17, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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Why are we not working 15-hours a week as John Maynard Keynes predicted?

This is related to what David Graeber calls: 'Bullshit Jobs.'
"Over the course of the last century, the number of workers employed in industry and in the farm sector has collapsed dramatically. At the same time, professional, managerial, clerical, and sales workers tripled, growing from one-quarter to three-quarters of total employment:' In other words, productive jobs have been largely automated away. But rather than allowing a massive reduction of working hours to free the world's population to pursue their own projects, pleasures and ideas, we have seen the ballooning of the admin sector, up to and including the creation of whole new industries like financial services or telemarketing, or the unprecedented expansion of sectors like corporate law, human resources and PR." "And these numbers do not even reflect all those whose job is to provide administrative, technical, or security support for these industries These are what I propose to call Bullshit Jobs." .... . - David Graeber
January 16, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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Conservative Christians may not mention this, but Debt Forgiveness is an important part of the Bible.
January 16, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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Why are we not working 15-hours a week as John Maynard Keynes predicted?

This is related to what David Graeber calls: 'Bullshit Jobs.'
"Over the course of the last century, the number of workers employed in industry and in the farm sector has collapsed dramatically. At the same time, professional, managerial, clerical, and sales workers tripled, growing from one-quarter to three-quarters of total employment:' In other words, productive jobs have been largely automated away. But rather than allowing a massive reduction of working hours to free the world's population to pursue their own projects, pleasures and ideas, we have seen the ballooning of the admin sector, up to and including the creation of whole new industries like financial services or telemarketing, or the unprecedented expansion of sectors like corporate law, human resources and PR." "And these numbers do not even reflect all those whose job is to provide administrative, technical, or security support for these industries These are what I propose to call Bullshit Jobs." .... . - David Graeber
January 16, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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Conservative Christians may not mention this, but Debt Forgiveness is an important part of the Bible.
January 16, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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Launching the virtual library of @davidgraeber—still drafts, but it's happening!
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David Graeber Books Library - David Graeber Books Library
The collection of around 1400 books that David organised by various themes. We are working on making this collection into an interactive library stage by stage. Currently we have collected all the boo...
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January 15, 2026 at 10:38 AM
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If you are wondering why ICE are attacking and arresting Native Americans who are obviously not migrants, it is because it was never about whether you are a migrant or not, It was about whether or not you are part of the Herrenvolk.
January 16, 2026 at 1:38 AM