David Graeber - ARTIST TAXI DRIVER Curates. - CULTURE IS NOT YOUR FRIEND - Reloaded 

I love whatever this is. A mix of stand up comedy, political speech, history class, philosophy class and cool wise teacher energy. This guy is a legend and I aspire to be like him. Rest in power David.

“A loose cannon is someone who might act ethically, but you just never know when.” Lol

Everything about David Graeber just makes me so happy. Rest In Peace to a beautiful human.

This is the one guy that had the nuance I needed to complete my world view on politics and culture.

Love that I just found this after finishing dawn of everything. Happy that he at least got to leave a lot behind for us to enjoy

It's so sad he is dead. I miss the things he could have done. f2020

I love how different this is from like, a Ted Talk. It's like watching a famous band play a house show. What is this, he's at like a pun art museum? They started putting ambient music on in the background when he got into it, it feels like a vibe where people are having drinks.

Rest in Peace sir. "we are the 99%."

23:40 - 24:20 - 85 % of reported profits of J P Morgan Chase came from FEES & PENALTIES

"If you don't have the military, police, and bailiffs hold it (capitalism) up it will all come troubling down." - *David Graeber*

"No rest til the last prison they built gets burned down or turned into a museum, and the last dollar bill they print gets tossed into a wood stove in New England. I can't leave the house today, I'm too terrified of market exchange! Nothing stays in the hands that made it, nobody working for eachother, everybody's working for a wage!" - Ramshackle Glory

So it is possible to introduce a speaker without being a pompous jerk! I am in love with that intro...

He seems a little crazy. And I like it.

No longer with us unfortunately, a void in creative thinking as a result. RIP David Graeber

a true American hero

I wish I could have met him! Such a loss... Very glad I am coming across the thoughts of David Graeber.

RIP David! send the power from Heavan for us to spread your message.

Great talk, but does any body else hear Beck playing in the back ground? Black hole from the album Mellow Gold.

the greatest speech I have ever heard

Excellent!

DAVID GRAEBER was a founding member of the Institute for Experimental Arts He did a lecture with the title: How social and economic structure influences the Art World in the Financial Consequences - International MultiMedia Poetry Festival organized by the Institute for Experimental Arts supported by LSE Department of Anthropology. Influential anthropologist David Graeber, known for his 2011 volume Debt: The First 5000 Years speaks about the correlation between the cultural sphere and society. The intellectuals and the artists create an imaginary way to criticize the economic system in any era. Art can overcome hegemonic frameworks and acknowledge other possible worlds, offer us the opportunity to understand better the marginalized social entities. Social exclusion is the process in which individuals or people are systematically blocked from (or denied full access to) various rights, opportunities and resources that are normally available to members of a different group, and which are fundamental to social integration and observance of human rights within that particular group (e.g., housing, employment, healthcare, civic engagement, democratic participation, and due process). As the economic crises go deeper in time more people face the effects of exclusion. Art and social sciences can give voice to the voiceless. Especially young social aware poets can give us a clear view of the real social effect of the financial consequences. - David Graeber You can watch the Lecture here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WCF-8OQj0RE.html

Absolutely amazing!

This guy was a genius. Full stop. Hands down. His mind just soars.

“Culture isn’t what you do, it’s what you don’t do.” Or what you choose to not borrow from your neighbor culture and WHY?

Great talk. A true teacher!!

“If your not working at something that you don’t like every day, then your a rotten person, and you got to pay your debts”

It was a nice， I think you are right about a lot of things.

i love you i Always do

he's so good

Amazing bro. Rest In Power!

Some lucid touche moments. Cheers

Where the fuck has David Graeber been all my life?

was like a string of firecrackers.

Wow, they are playing Beck's album "Mellow Gold" in the background. I just noticed it because "the last song on the album, "Blackhole", starts at 3:50. They have a good taste in tunes.

geniality!

What's the crazy sounds in the background.. Am I still tripping?

this guy's even scruffier than me. Thumbs up.

Bill Hicks, George Carlin, and now David Graeber. All my favorite stand-ups are gone.

idk if it's some kind of audio defect noise or what, but especially by around the middle of this if you listen in headphones at a decent volume its like he's talking over a quiet performance of a psychedelic noise band

The more I see of him the more I feel that it IS a all bluff being cooked up on the spot, that isn't quite ready to be served. But i m willing to keep sampling a while longer to find out if this is to my taste, or could become an acquired one. RIP

I like his studied disarray. Very now in academia.

I couldn’t find Zatulu in Malagasy mythology. Am I spelling it right?

Genius.

I wonder if Graeber read "Asphyxiating Culture" by Jean Dubuffet.

That ender though

"Culture is Defiance"

when it's run by a Psycho Mafia then everybody gets a shake-down. Or disappeared.

it is pretty interesting that the anti-consumerist "mall as existential hellscape" angle comes at the individual from both extremes of political theory. reactionaries appropriate the narrative as a means of recruiting bodies for the defense of the status quo (and of course selling "classical" regressions), while those who are afforded the context and space to ponder Marx and the mechanics of capital insist that cultural product and aesthetics aren't an expression of some ground level culture. obviously from where i stand, corporations and market domination can suck it, but as i listen to this talk I'm playing Lo-Fi Girl beats, drinking coffee and eating a blueberry bagel with cream cheese. all of these things are making my day qualitatively better, even if i can hyperanalyze their systemic origins and how they made their way to me in the first place. my takeaway, as an autodidact dweeb who only recently found David because he's an anarchist, is that it's possible to savor and enjoy life even as you're aware of the manipulations of power, and don't need to succumb to doomerist guilt beset by an inability to practice a more socially aware life. modernity and the imagination of the people have nonetheless yielded beauty and intrigue, in spite of the dystopian will being enacted on people by a select few.

Uhm yeah!

should have started at 1:15

What was that opening ?? Im pretty high but did someone in the audience do a shit after David made up on the spot his response to a French bank robber philosopher's unintelligible latest theory? Don't even know how to word this question . 1:21 gen query btw .

where can i find source of the fees and penalties as main income from JP morgan

“Culture is social moments that won”

The is or was a video recording of Terence McKenna with the same title.

Adieu David

Hi guys, does anyone have any further recommendations - readings/videos/ personal wisdoms further to what David was saying at 13:00. So basically working-class to bourgeoisie behaviour dynamics, expectation gaps, at higher education / professional world

I don't know what kind of substance he was on but I want some. RIP dude..

found it

RIP

I really wish he'd point the microphone directly at his mouth.

Does anyone know the name of the essay he is referring to at 4:05? Heeeeeeelp

Naked extraction and naked force, absolutely. Oligarchs are creating no value whatsoever

Interesting hypothesis about Eastern Woodland natives, I'd be interested to see more evidence. It sounds highly plausible but I'm not totally convinced that they "just walked." The Madagascar myth example is far more compelling to me.

I love columbo

where can I find more stuff from this guy?

anybody know the name of the essay on the French coining of Civilization and Germany's coining of culture that Graeber refs between the 4 and 6 minute Mark?

can we get this without the cuts by chance?

1:17 professor is correct.

The background music is really annoying

Anarchists unite!!! Question everything including this sentence.

Uuuuuuuhhhm

13:15

Columbo was cool

Who's the russian guy he's referring to at 3:00? The student of Giorgio Agamben? Aleksandr something

I'm really enjoying what old mate is saying but, WTF is up with that background music?!

10:15 WHO made a gas car?

Oh, Urdu! It's almost Hindi.

Is no one going to comment about the weird background noise?

Regardless of the size of government, there will always be government and it will always be of the Marshall Stockburn and his deputies variety. NOTE: There is no bible thumping gun slinger coming to save the day.

The music in the background is so distracting

If only somebody could put away this awful music in the background. /s

Ahh look, it's Chunky Mark everyone's favourite Masonic Truther... He's a fellow of the craft and no mistake.

I can't figure out what he's saying. It seems to be another Eric weinsteinian word salad. Can anyone place a thesis in this talk? Of course we live in a neofeudal system.

Colombo is his favorite show. Now I know who he modeled his appearance. He definitely looks like Colombo but what is he smoking?

I didn’t know he was thrown out of the US. His presentation- sour grapes.

Sounds like garble to me and that would be fine if I wasn't interested.

why do social anthropologists always refer to philosophers? it's not like they go out and do ethnography, they're reclusive academic armchair thinkers..pff.

He has a girlfriend!?! What does she look like? Picture the two of them together - what a stench!

Why does this guy hate Liberalism and Socialism so much?

mostly fluff

Is there some reason why he doesn't comb his hair? Is that some kind of a virtue signal between radical SJWs?

RIP