David Graeber

Content by or about David Graeber (February 12, 1961 – September 2, 2020), an American and British anthropologist, left-wing and anarchist social and political activist. His books include "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" (2011), "The Utopia of Rules" (2015) and "Bullshit Jobs" (2018).

David Graeber.

David Graeber.

David Graeber

David Graeber Interview with ReadySteadyBook

Radical academic David Graeber speaks to ReadySteadyBook about his ideas on Marxism, his expulsion from Yale University and anarchist…

Debt: The First 5000 years - Extracts

Anthropoligist and anarchist David Graeber provides an overview of the arguments he puts forward in his work Debt: The First 5000 years.

Against Kamikaze Capitalism: Oil, Climate Change and the French refinery blockades

Anarchist David Graeber discusses the current ecological crisis and workers' direct action.

Fragments of an anarchist anthropology - David Graeber

Professor of anthropology David Graeber provides an overview of the possibilities for an anarchist…

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The sadness of post-workerism - David Graeber

David Graber provides an overview and critique of the 'Art and Immaterial Labour' Conference that took place at the Tate Britain in January 2008…

On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets

On the phenomenology of giant puppets: broken windows, imaginary jars of urine, and the cosmological role of the police in American culture. David Graeber, author Direct Action: An Ethnography, examines the 'anti-globalization' movement and its practices.

Turning Modes of Production Inside Out, or, Why Capitalism is a Transformation of Slavery

In this article anarchist anthropologist David Graber puts forward his own views on the 'mode of production' and gives a more sophisticated materialist alternative.

The Twilight of Vanguardism

David Graber looks at how intellectual vanguardist attitudes have continued into an age when revolutionary vanguardism is meant to be a thing of the past.

Army of altruists, on the alienated right to do good

David Graeber discusses why so many working class Americans vote for the Right.

Debt: The First 5000 years - interview with David Graeber

CNN Interview anarchist anthropologist David Graeber on his book Debt: The First 5000 years

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Give it Away - David Graeber

Anarchist anthropologist David Graeber discusses contemporary French theory and the 'Maussian Left'.