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Books by David Graeber mentioned on podcasts
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The Dawn of Everything
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow is a sweeping archaeological and anthropological study that challenges conventional narratives about social evolution, inequality, and the origins of human civilization.
Discussed“As a small side note, the whole state of nature thing is pretty much [ __ ] On why that is is discussed at length in the dawn of everything by David Greyber and David Wangro.”
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Debt
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber is a sweeping anthropological examination of the history and social functions of debt, credit, and power across human civilizations.
Discussed“So, Molly, this this is the this is the point where I we we need to bring debt the first 5,000 years back into this and emphasize the extent to which the financial class has always been deeply connected to the to the military and why it's always been deeply connected to war financing.”
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Bullshit Jobs
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber is an incisive examination of modern employment, exploring how a vast proliferation of high-prestige yet entirely pointless administrative roles came to dominate corporate and bureaucratic culture.
Discussed“Um, David Graeber wrote this wonderful piece Bullshit Jobs, back in, I think it was maybe early 2010s.”
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The Utopia of Rules
The Utopia of Rules by David Graeber is an anthropological examination of bureaucracy, violence, and the way administrative systems shape modern society.
Discussed“The bureaucratic welfare state, as the anthropologist David Greyber points out in his book, The Utopia of Rules, was perhaps first implemented by archons conservative Otto von Bismar as a very explicit way to buy off the working class.”
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The Democracy Project
The Democracy Project by David Graeber is an exploration of direct democracy, social movements, and the origins of modern protest culture, written by the late anthropologist.
Discussed“I'm going to read a quote from from the late anthropologist David Greyber from his book, The Democracy Project.”
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Direct Action
Direct Action by David Graeber is an ethnographic account of the alter-globalization movement, detailing the author's firsthand experiences with and participation in the major anti-globalization protests of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Recommended“I would also recommend uh David Greyber's uh direct action in ethnography which is him writing about the original like anti like alter globalization protests and his like time in them. Yeah. So, you know, if you need direct action ideas, they they did some fun stuff with dressing guys up like marshmallows so police batons would bounce off of”
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Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology by David Graeber is a provocative and imaginative essay that outlines potential pathways for anthropological inquiry through an anarchist lens, challenging conventional political and economic assumptions.
Recommended“Read the Never Was the West. Read Towards an Anarchist Anthropology. Um, [ __ ] Jobs is a good start if you read.”
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Pirate Enlightenment
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber explores the egalitarian and democratic societies created by pirates in Madagascar.
Recommended“the first one is pirate Enlightenment by the late David Graber the subtitle is the real libertalia”
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Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value
Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value by David Graeber is an academic work that reconsiders the concepts of value, economy, and exchange from an anthropological perspective.
Recommended“If you if if you if if you want to be the real grave head and read something that [ __ ] no one has read, go read uh towards an anthropological theory of value. I read into one of my colleagues at supermarket the other day when we were talking about that.”
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