Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2021-11-27
Books mentioned on It Could Happen Here Weekly 11
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Garrison (full name unknown) recommended Work, and discussed Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber and The Abolition of Work by Bob Black. Robert Evans discussed The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and others and Tribe by Sebastian Junger. Christopher Wong discussed The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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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“and uh also uh [ __ ] Jobs by David Greyber and uh [ __ ] Jobs was also kind of partially inspired by Bob Black's the the abolition of work.”
Where to get it
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Work
Work by CrimethInc.
Recommended“Crime Think has a really good book just called work which is another another one that gets referenced a lot even even in the subreddit”
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The Abolition of Work
Discussed“A few examples of like of like you know seinal anti-work books um is one of them is uh Bob Black's the abolition of work. Um Crime Think has a really good book just called work”
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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“speaking of you talked about David Greyber earlier who's um an anarchist anthropologist and widely seen to be like one of the most brilliant anthropologists of his generation he he recently deceased but a book that he wrote before he died with another uh an another fellow came out recently called um the dawn of everything”
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Tribe
Tribe by Sebastian Junger is a reflective examination of social cohesion, community, and the psychological impacts of modern isolation compared to traditional societies.
Discussed“one of the things Greyber does a good job of going into um uh is like the way in which uh and this is also something that comes up in in in tribe by younger the way in which like during the early period of uh colonization of North America”
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The Conquest of Bread
The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin is a seminal anarchist-communist text advocating for the abolition of private property in favor of common ownership and mutual aid.
Discussed“So, let us return to the source. Kirstkin in the conquest of bread. The mines, though they represent the labor of several generations, and derive their sole value from the requirements of the industry of a nation and the density of the population.”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“There's a there's a thing in volume one of Capital about this that I I was like, "Oh, I could pull this up." And then I was like, "That is too much work. I'm not going to do it."”