DAY II: David Graeber - Re-Thinking Resistance: Smashing Bureaucracies and Classes (2017) 

Graeber's lazer focus on articulating the key dynamics of power and wealth is critical to political and social discourse today. His passing is a tremendous blow to generations of people desperate for social change world wide.

"For the first time in human history there was a planetary administrative bureaucracy, which was completely lacking in democratic accountability" - Graeber

Rojava - North of Aleppo, Syria..Just footnote-helping this excellent stuff along.

I miss him. Going to re-read his books. These youtube videos are a life-life to sanity.

David Graeber was a founding member of the Institute for Experimental Arts. He gave 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. 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 All of us the artists and theoreticians from The Institute for Experimental Arts feel devastated by the loss of a great friend and comrade, a wonderful, intelligent, and warm-hearted person that offered all his life to the struggle for human emancipation. theinstitute.info/?p=4622

we desperately neer more ppl like Graeber.

Graeber's talks are always so darned interesting. Thanks

RİP comrade

He always seems embarrassed when anyone brings up the Anarchist Anthropology book, but it was a very thought provoking little book.

Thanks David. RIP

fantastic comments from David Graeber!

Constantly taking a cup of coffee (?) and immediately putting it back just seems to be his thing. Seen it before in some of his speeches. Really funny to actually see him take a sip just before he ends here.

Fascinating!

WHERES DAY 1???? I WANNA SEE DAY 1!!

lets sing a song for David

Google / youtube, interfere, harass, & bullies, ordinary people on line. I've got first hand experience of this for the past 4 month and counting.

20:39, he actually imbibes.

Haha, even in reddit we see creeping bureaucracy (thanks to spell checker).

Where is 'Rogiba?'

if you synthesize this perspective with jaron lanier and vinay gupta you've got it. and no hes not CIA gtfo here please

Revolutionary ASMR

Ugh its so cliche to get into somebody's work after they die. Which I had found him sooner

I want to see him debate Zizek or Ben Burgis or someone who knows all about Marxism. The way he just writes it off with no real explaination is a bit confusing. Especially considering the vagueness of a lot of what is said, especially in regards to the working classes of the world who arent in such a position to do anything like what they are doing in Rojava. Lenin talks of imperialism in a logical way, no? He also talks of adventurism and critiques anarchism. I'd like to see these things addressed.

He as a speaker makes his talks fun to listen to. But his ideas on how to "fix" things are broken.

And so the revolutionary ideas emboded by Rojava(ie disengagement from capitalist structures for one) is to be autonomous.So….I guess they will have to start donkey cart manufacturing plants,coarse cloth weaving centers(less energy usage) and all the other acoutrements of 8th century tech…and of course no “capitalist” iPhones.

Graeber - All of the criticisms and none of proven workable ideas.

The smacking between sentences makes this impossible for me to listen. I'm going to look for captions as soon as I'm done writing this. He even has a habit of smacking on both sides of the crutch words "uh" or "um". Besides that it has important information which I wish I already knew, so I wouldn't have to listen to this nervous smacking of the mouth. Anyone who makes YT videos or does any sort of public speaking, please stop smacking while talking.