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

[@ujean56]

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.

[@pureeffort4152]

many hands make easy work

[@clarke4552]

Agreed

[@rsrs225]

Well said

[@ximono]

But we have his words, which will go on inspiring people for generations to come.

[@leonmueller7231]

It‘s now up to us to keep thinking, imagining and making change…

[@ArtAristocracy]

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

[@heathcliffearnshaw1403]

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

[@instituteforexperimentalar7493]

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: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXSpXmuFhs9jiKc 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

[@sign69]

in my experience the arts at all levels are nothing other than processes of exclusion and probably even more so than all the other institutional whatevers of nature's bureaucrats...

[@CORBARocks]

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

[@dinnerwithfranklin]

Graeber's talks are always so darned interesting. Thanks

[@mattwooten7421]

Graeber had a wonderful of weaving together events and making you see common threads in such a profound way.

[@SourovKabirII]

we desperately neer more ppl like Graeber.

[@johannschiel6734]

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.

[@sveu3pm]

so what.

[@johannschiel6734]

@@sveu3pm Don't know. Just funny. He maybe would have laughed about it, too.. R.I.P.

[@richardbutler4528]

@@sveu3pm it's really noticeable.

[@musFuzZ]

It is a subconscious mind game of attention he is playing. I laugh hysterically when watching his talks. It is like watching a football game

[@sveu3pm]

@@musFuzZ only subconscious game here is how to belittle the man through his physical defects when you cant argue with his ideas.

[@lutherdean6922]

fantastic comments from David Graeber!

[@simonbean3774]

Thanks David. RIP

[@ernststravoblofeld]

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

[@markwrede8878]

Bureaucracy needs to be minimized, but bureaucracy performs the most essential task of government: issuing and retaining records, without which legislative, judicial, and executive branches cannot know what they are doing. That society may exist without government is a play on the meaning of the word government, which will inevitably require some format and articulation for public agreements.

[@smooa1889]

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

[@tomsuibney9093]

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

[@Endelite]

Could you elaborate?

[@hinahanta]

Fascinating!

[@Lance0714]

lets sing a song for David

[@richardbutler4528]

20:39, he actually imbibes.

[@johnhanamy9795]

Where is 'Rogiba?'

[@taiwanjohn]

After some googling, I found it's "Rojava" not "Rogiba"... it's in Syria. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-revolution-in-rojava

[@hermanfrodit7442]

Um.....

[@Endelite]

Rojava, northeast Syria, disputed

[@wotwot6868]

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

[@kevinward3261]

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

[@kuttymoonji3645]

Kevin Ward is there any allegation that he is a double agent? Just want to know..

[@jacob_massengale]

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

[@jorgealexphoto]

Revolutionary ASMR

[@Ritual_Gaze]

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.

[@ernststravoblofeld]

Debate is gladiator combat games for people who think they are smart.

[@voltcorp]

you can read works by all of these people (and more), correspond with them (not with graeber unfortunately), and come to conclusions. debate is the worst way to find the truth in anything.

[@Rob-fx2dw]

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

[@jamesbnorman1]

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

[@radroatch]

Why?

[@ernststravoblofeld]

This comment makes me remember the guy at the back of the lit class, wearing a beret, mumbling, "Shakespeare wasn't all that." And looking around to see if anyone noticed him.

[@radroatch]

@@ernststravoblofeld yup. the Soufflé will _puff_ with aesthetic, but with the slightest disturbance deflate. That's why _why_ doesn't a response.

[@radroatch]

@@ernststravoblofeld since we likely won't get a take from JN overthere, what's you take on Graeber?

[@ernststravoblofeld]

@@radroatch One of my favorite writers, and very helpful to me personally. Having an anarchist voice so thoroughly grounded in human history and culture is a very big deal.

[@gozogator1]

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.

[@gozogator1]

@Paul Gauthier that's it ? really profound

[@funkbungus137]

ffffffffffffoooofffffffff you sir have thought bout this way more than most, congrats, you win a vozuvu.

[@ximono]

Sounds great

[@gozogator1]

Yes simple and profound

[@gozogator1]

@@funkbungus137 …a night of too much caffeine

[@thatsjusthim]

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.

[@thatsjusthim]

YES we got captions!!

[@akompsupport]

Agreed. Smacking is awful sounding.

[@Antreus]

Sad to say, but its one of the sacrifices you have to make when listening to a mind like this, and its not like the content is bad at all. Really grateful for this guy's scholarship and active voice in politics, even losing his academic tenure at Yale to do so.

[@jackreynolds8804]

Fascista!

[@mechabits197]

go listen to Slavoj Žižek then shut the fuck up