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

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David Graeber is an American anthropologist, political activist and author. He is currently a professor at the London School of Economics and was formerly an associate professor of anthropology at Yale University. David also played a role in the Global Justice Movement and was one of the earlier organisers of Occupy Wall Street. He is the author of numerous books including The Democracy Project, and Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011)
Twitter: @davidgraeber
WE'RE F*CKED, IT'S OVER : #1
CULTURE IS NOT YOUR FRIEND curated by artist and political renegade Mark McGowan - otherwise known as:
THE ARTIST TAXI DRIVER
/ chunkymark
His guests for the evening include:
+ David Graeber
+ Nina Power
+ Liberate Tate
+ Dr Lisa McKenzie
+ JJ Bola
Other info you might be interested includes:
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www.thepeckhampelican.co.uk/

[@andrespedraza512]

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.

[@mrwigg1es]

Could you please go back and edit out the words "rant" and "old man being rambly"? They do not belong in the same paragraph as David Graeber. Thanks.

[@andrespedraza512]

@@mrwigg1es i didn't mean it in a negative way, but maybe it was bad wording so i changed it. thanks

[@morris9524]

@@mrwigg1es he announced he was going to rant himself too

[@caha9583]

@@mrwigg1es but it was quite much ranting in this speech

[@samdafoe4817]

you are already living up to your aspirations, comrade! citizens over consumers, bathed in good humor. 🙂

[@DaveE99]

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

[@ridicule1313]

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

[@romeronickell8332]

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

[@bmatthews15]

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

[@AudioPervert1]

Surely your world view would (and should) be different from his, or the next person.

[@MyLittleEmoKid]

Hope you don't ever stop refining and working on your world view homie! Keep learning

[@desi_anarch]

Haha i feel the same

[@LMvdB02]

Always keep on learning and reviewing your assumptions!

[@filiplazz]

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

[@geoPoliticalanalysis_global]

Yessss!!!!😔😞

[@mrwigg1es]

Don't be sad he is dead. Be happy that his works can live on and spread knowledge! :)

[@hipmotion]

yeah sometimes i remember and i get pretty upset, what an absolute legend:( we know what he'd want us to do! keep on fighting

[@nerdtritiousnerd5233]

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

[@thomasd2444]

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

[@michaelchikos4551]

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.

[@gddett]

The song is Beck's "Black Hole" and for some reason it just fits.

[@jamesmorgan9258]

He seems a little crazy. And I like it.

[@ernststravoblofeld]

It's what sanity looks like in an insane world.

[@nathanswann1198]

a true American hero

[@george474747]

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

[@Keaggan]

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

[@steviejay9245]

...like every other system every attempted.

[@voltcorp]

*tumbling

[@voltcorp]

@@steviejay9245 not really. for one, your use of "attempted" implies that a system lasting centuries then morphing into something different is a "failure", by which standard capitalism has already failed. instead systems flow historically and locally into one another, to the point that during some parts of human history some societies would literally change government systems with the seasons. we shouldn't see our social organization as something we "marry to" and should then try to "salvage" if we're not sure something better is possible.we should see it as an ever changing facet of our lives, and one which we can and should always try to drive towards our conceptions of morality, fearlessly.

[@tigerstyle4505]

"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

[@oldreprobate2748]

That is what the public education system has evolved to. With the destruction of civics and goverment to a college elective those who are actually incharged have created a wage slave manufacturing machine of the public education system. Know your true enemy the Oligarthy worldwide.

[@tania2897]

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

[@Ticibon]

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

[@patriceortovent6451]

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

[@seth7971]

i love you i Always do

[@9000ck]

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

[@instituteforexperimentalar7493]

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: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXSpXmuFhs9jiKc

[@mikaelnyberg9637]

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

[@spring-tp6dr]

the greatest speech I have ever heard

[@emmar9104]

he's so good

[@MoranSE]

Amazing bro. Rest In Power!

[@josehawking5293]

Excellent!

[@sarcasmo57]

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

[@DaveE99]

“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?

[@alvaromd3203]

Absolutely amazing!

[@crizish]

Great talk. A true teacher!!

[@raoulduke7208]

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

[@teosprock3508]

This bit 'Culture is not your friend' also reminds me of the standup comedian known as Terence McKenna.

[@joaofreitasmendes9314]

geniality!

[@charlytaylor1748]

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

[@sawtoothiandi]

level of scruff is directly proportional to authenticity. NB. jean/jacket combos a la Ricky Branson = deceptive semi-scruff

[@DaveE99]

“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”

[@martinsapsitis4292]

Some lucid touche moments. Cheers

[@JonathanLaliberte1]

Genius.

[@JonathanLaliberte1]

"usually"

[@treyquattro]

Occupy Wall Street?

[@JonathanLaliberte1]

I have no interest in "convincing" you @krooassant. If you don't think he's a genius then fine by me, makes no difference at all. You are free to think whatever you want.

[@roddy2body]

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

[@180_S]

Yeah, you're still tripping.

[@treyquattro]

sounded like radio interference. From the security state probably...

[@allodoxia]

If you listen closely, it is the last track to Beck's album 'Mellow Gold' called "Blackhole" (some of which you can hear around the 4:30 mark). The noisy synth stuff is the hidden track that follows the song proper, hence the strange noise around the 10:30 mark.

[@sawtoothiandi]

i find tin foil shields me from the demon-frequencies.......... ;-)

[@adampeters7947]

Just aliens tuning in

[@JohnMccart777]

I like his studied disarray. Very now in academia.

[@charliebridges3584]

Where the fuck has David Graeber been all my life?

[@babyfactory587]

was like a string of firecrackers.

[@ximono]

Like a mascletà

[@dudeman5303]

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.

[@waltergarcia8273]

Yes great taste I agree.

[@DaveE99]

“Culture is social moments that won”

[@remirobichaud5989]

Uhm yeah!

[@kyivstuff]

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

[@buttercup9926]

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

[@narainkut]

Adieu David

[@MilesBellas]

should have started at 1:15

[@CalusaCustomConcepts]

That ender though

[@desi_anarch]

"Culture is Defiance"

[@Riquelmean]

RIP

[@RSEFX]

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

[@locolatino11]

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

[@PetersonSilva]

Since his wording is vague and there is also some vagueness in this data, I think this link might help you: www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/08/03/158047349/how-americas-biggest-bank-makes-money

[@jlmur54]

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

[@rippedtorn2310]

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 .

[@Lanooski]

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.

[@teosprock3508]

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

[@felicityc]

I love columbo

[@kayjami1996]

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

[@ammarzia3061]

Have you read book 'Bullshit Jobs'? Might be an interesting place to start...it focuses more on bureaucratic work dynamics, which is a bit different from the Marxist view on Working Class and Bourgeoise

[@Vampyrdanceclub]

found it

[@Uncleanus]

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

[@Narutokun136]

www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/cja/31/2/ca310201.xml I think this is it my man!

[@francismadden8561]

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

[@dothedeed]

The background music is really annoying

[@himanshubarsinge9106]

where can I find more stuff from this guy?

[@letmelooktv]

twitter @davidgraeber web davidgraeber.industries/

[@wngbjngwwgk]

Check out his book Debt, the first 5000 years

[@Johnconno]

J P Getty Museum Archives. X

[@mehdimehdikhani5899]

1:17 professor is correct.

[@brokenfingers98]

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?

[@rainbowmonkMC]

unfortunately not but i'd also love to know

[@szembeszel-]

+

[@arnosonderegger6633]

He didn't mention one particular essay on this, but the picture he gives was painted (among others) in essays by both Thomas and Heinrich Mann in Germany in the early 20st century. ... A very good piece on French "civilization" is by Lucien Febvre, on American understandings of "culture" read into the early classics of cultural anthropology, Franz Boas, Edward Sapir and Melville Herskovits in particular, or into later versions by Clifford Geertz and/or Marshall Sahlins (who was Graeber's teacher and one-time co-author). There's a lot to learn from these writers, and loads of materials to think with. ...

[@jamesmorgan9258]

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

[@paulkossak7761]

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

[@varframppytwobtokwanguz2286]

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.

[@wildyakify]

theres a lot more about this topic here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6e4q5eAiLBnrpo

[@TheAlksejf]

can we get this without the cuts by chance?

[@letmelooktv]

No. What's been cut was by David's request. Its really only a couple if moments...

[@marianhunt8899]

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

[@andersestes]

Uuuuuuuhhhm

[@gozogator1]

Anarchists unite!!! Question everything including this sentence.

[@patlacy338]

Columbo was cool

[@goofycker]

10:15 WHO made a gas car?

[@goofycker]

RIP

[@markcorrigan3930]

13:15

[@faimhurensohn7608]

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

[@mikabjorklund3678]

Alexander Brener

[@stockholmsyndromeself-trea7517]

Oh, Urdu! It's almost Hindi.

[@2Esaias2]

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

[@Aermydach]

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

[@Porjil09]

The music in the background is so distracting

[@larrysmith2636]

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_Reality_Filter]

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

[@roddy2body]

The Conscientious Objector I'm suspect of the character too

[@heyassmanx]

are you saying he's a shill or what..?

[@AlxParrish]

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.

[@mycomment3509]

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

[@ebmr1479]

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

[@larrysmith2636]

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

[@ebmr1479]

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

[@prunonz479]

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.

[@ebmr1479]

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

[@JN003]

mostly fluff

[@yehudahamer1655]

Why does this guy hate Liberalism and Socialism so much?

[@lunaridge4510]

He doesn't , he is against fake "neoliberalism" which is neither new nor liberal and is against the Bolsheviks who ruined the idea of socialism for many

[@rainbowmonkMC]

he is an anarchist, who rightly understands that the nation-state is bullshit and that mutual aid social way forward

[@HamJamming]

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

[@rainbowmonkMC]

yes, its as he would say a 'culture' - a rejection of that which our 'neighbors' do. you can always tell a fascist (normie) based on combed hair ;)

[@canchem9825]

RIP