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

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

@morris9524

3 жыл бұрын

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

@caha9583

2 жыл бұрын

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

@samdafoe4817

5 ай бұрын

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

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

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

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

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

@AudioPervert1

3 жыл бұрын

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

@MyLittleEmoKid

2 жыл бұрын

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

@desi_anarch

2 жыл бұрын

Haha i feel the same

@LMvdB02

2 жыл бұрын

Always keep on learning and reviewing your assumptions!

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

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

@geoPoliticalanalysis_global

3 жыл бұрын

Yessss!!!!😔😞

@mrwigg1es

3 жыл бұрын

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

@hipmotion

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

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

@steviejay9245

Жыл бұрын

...like every other system every attempted.

@voltcorp

Жыл бұрын

*tumbling

@voltcorp

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

"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

3 жыл бұрын

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.

He seems a little crazy. And I like it.

@ernststravoblofeld

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

a true American hero

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

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

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

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: kzread.info/dash/bejne/iXd6j5qIgc2Wgqg.html

i love you i Always do

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

he's so good

was like a string of firecrackers.

@ximono

7 күн бұрын

Like a mascletà

the greatest speech I have ever heard

Amazing bro. Rest In Power!

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

Absolutely amazing!

Where the fuck has David Graeber been all my life?

“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?

Excellent!

“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”

Some lucid touche moments. Cheers

Great talk. A true teacher!!

geniality!

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

@sawtoothiandi

4 жыл бұрын

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

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

@180_S

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, you're still tripping.

@treyquattro

6 жыл бұрын

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

@allodoxia

6 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@adampeters7947

3 жыл бұрын

Just aliens tuning in

Genius.

@JonathanLaliberte1

6 жыл бұрын

"usually"

@treyquattro

6 жыл бұрын

Occupy Wall Street?

@JonathanLaliberte1

6 жыл бұрын

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.

Uhm yeah!

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

@teosprock3508

2 жыл бұрын

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

That ender though

"Culture is Defiance"

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

4 жыл бұрын

Yes great taste I agree.

I like his studied disarray. Very now in academia.

RIP

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

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

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

“Culture is social moments that won”

Adieu David

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

found it

should have started at 1:15

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.

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 .

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

@PetersonSilva

6 жыл бұрын

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

Uuuuuuuhhhm

I love columbo

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

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

@Narutokun136

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

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

where can I find more stuff from this guy?

@letmelooktv

3 жыл бұрын

twitter @davidgraeber web davidgraeber.industries/

@wngbjngwwgk

3 жыл бұрын

Check out his book Debt, the first 5000 years

@Johnconno

3 жыл бұрын

J P Getty Museum Archives. X

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

3 жыл бұрын

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

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

2 жыл бұрын

unfortunately not but i'd also love to know

@szembeszel-

2 жыл бұрын

+

@arnosonderegger6633

Жыл бұрын

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. ...

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

can we get this without the cuts by chance?

@letmelooktv

2 жыл бұрын

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

The background music is really annoying

1:17 professor is correct.

13:15

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

Columbo was cool

10:15 WHO made a gas car?

@goofycker

3 жыл бұрын

RIP

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

4 жыл бұрын

theres a lot more about this topic here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/d6qJ3MaDg66aqJs.html

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

@mikabjorklund3678

3 жыл бұрын

Alexander Brener

Anarchists unite!!! Question everything including this sentence.

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

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

Oh, Urdu! It's almost Hindi.

The music in the background is so distracting

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

@roddy2body

6 жыл бұрын

The Conscientious Objector I'm suspect of the character too

@heyassmanx

6 жыл бұрын

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

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.

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

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

Why does this guy hate Liberalism and Socialism so much?

@lunaridge4510

4 жыл бұрын

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

2 жыл бұрын

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

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

@rainbowmonkMC

2 жыл бұрын

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 ;)

mostly fluff

RIP