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The reality - as this neat article that also cites David Graeber suggests - is that anarchism is incredibly appealing at a time when we find ourselves "entrenched in a kind of zombie capitalism: 'no one really believes in it, it’s no longer really alive, but still it stumbles on, refusing to die.'" Why Young People in the UK are Returning to Anarchism:

"When [we] dreamed up the #SciFiEconomics Lab(2019) we had no idea what #Graeber & Wengrow were up to. Yet, like them, we felt stuck. We felt crippled by our inability to imagine living under any system other than late-stage

What David Graeber and David Wengrow's "The Dawn of Everything" has in common with sci-fi economics
Photo: Dennis Jarvis CC-BY – link A few weeks ago, I finished David Graeber and David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything. It is not science fiction, nor is it economics. And yet, I propose it has to do with both. The book begins by stating inequality has risen to the top of the agenda for public debate. Scholars, politicians, business leaders are calling attention to it. Where, they ask, does inequality come from? How can we reduce it to tolerable levels? The authors then proceed to questio…

David Graeber vs. Peter Thiel: Where Did the Future Go?
Once upon a time, in the heyday of social prognostication, many Americans believed that gadget-related knowledge would surely yield immeasurable leaps forward in the progress of the human species.
Yet as David Graeber argued in his Baffler essay “Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit,” Information Age capitalism has mainly given us better ways to shop—and handed the government unprecedented opportunities to watch.…

#TX32 Rep. Colin Allred should say, "D.E.P. (Descanse En Paz) David Graeber"

David Graeber vs. Peter Thiel: Where Did the Future Go?
Once upon a time, in the heyday of social prognostication, many Americans believed that gadget-related knowledge would surely yield immeasurable leaps forward in the progress of the human species.
Yet as David Graeber argued in his Baffler essay “Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit,” Information Age capitalism has mainly given us better ways to shop—and handed the government unprecedented opportunities to watch.…

Holy shit I don't know why it took me this long to read any David Graeber. Started this morning and it sings to me #bullshitjobs

R.I.P. David Graeber: they had an essence including patience