News from David Graeber Archive
We continue updating the digital David Graeber Archive, and will regularly share new publications and materials in this section.
Here are some of the latest updates:
Madagascar MediaWiki. We’re creating a distributed space where David Graeber’s texts can live as open, evolving conversations, interconnected with other sources and enriched by commentary. This idea reflects how David worked: starting with tweets, moving through essays, and eventually into books. We’re beginning with his Madagascar book, using MediaWiki to build a platform that invites dialogue, reflection, and shared discovery. Read more about this project here.
David Graeber’s projects. We are developing a new page for David Graeber’s projects. In this section of the website, we will gather multimedia materials related to the Brain Trust, the Farocki Graeber Program, the Carnival, and the Museum of Care.
Community. There is now a special Community page where we collect names and profiles of people who are connected either to the works of David Graeber, or to the development and support of the Archive.
New translations. We are constantly updating the Books section of the Archive, making sure all the new publications appear there.
Here are some new podcasts:
Dissident Island Radio – Direct Action!
To mark the launch of “Direct Action: An Ethnography”, Dissident Island Radio hosted a special event featuring a distinguished panel discussing protest, radical social struggles, and direct action.
Panelists included:
David Graeber, Isabeau Doucet, Isa Frémaux, Ohal Grietzer, Debbie Shaw, Chickpea, and Justus from Dissident Island Radio.
(2009)
Talking Anarchism and Direct Action
Talk Policy To Me reporter Reem Rayef delved into the practice and philosophy of anarchism, in search of an answer. In this episode, Reem speaks with Bryce Liedtke (friend, anarchist, GSPP alum, and Policy Director of the Scout Institute) about how he reconciles the principles of anarchism with his work in the policy space. Then, Dana Ward (anarchist, professor emeritus at Pitzer College) talks about the historical and philosophical origins and transformations of anarchism, in the United States and around the world.
(2021)
David Graeber in coversation with MonkeyWrench Books (pt 1 and 2)
This episode features anthropologist and activist David Graeber on his book Debt: The First 5,000 Years. He spoke at MonkeyWrench Books in Austin, Texas, on November 9, 2011. It is the first in a two-part episode.
David Graeber on Debt… for Skylight Books
Acclaimed anthropologist and author David Graeber Direct Action) visits Skylight Books to discuss and sign his fascinating new book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, a timely study of the ancient origins of our system of credit and debt.
And…
An audio vesrion of On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs in Czech
Audio Archiv: Stefan Fuchs in conversation with David Graeber
_ Join My Cult _ Viral News: Interview with David Graeber (2012)
Debt, The First 5,000 Years, David Graeber in conversation with Charlie Rose
Katherine Kinzler, HOW YOU SAY IT & David Graeber, DEBT
David Graeber, Occupy Wants To Relieve Your Debt
Podcasts about “What’s the Point if We Can’t Have Fun?”:
Graeber’s Fun — Aris Politopoulos
Plumbing Game Studies is a games and philosophy podcast. They ask questions like:
Why are philosophers always talking about games? Is philosophy itself a game? How can we use games to understand philosophy – and how can we use philosophy to understand games?
This podcast will use philosophy to study games and games to study philosophy.
In this episode, Aris Politopoulos joins the Plumbing Game Studies to discuss David Graeber’s essay “What’s the Point if We Can’t Have Fun?”
What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun? (w/Coffee with Comrades)
Work and Theory Podcast is about works in political and social theory and the host explains them in simple terms through casual conversation.
This episode is dedicated to the memory of David Graeber. It is a collaboration between Works in Theory and Coffee with Comrades to discuss David Graeber’s What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun? (2014).
What’s The Point if We Can’t Have Fun? On the Path with Dr. Charlie Keil
On the podcast “On the Path with Dr. Charlie Keil”, Dr. Charlie Keil and friends discuss a wide range of topics from politics to philosophy to music to early childhood education.
In this episode, Dr. Charlie Keil discusses his book “Playing for Peace”. In particular they discuss the chapter by David Graeber, “Whats The Point If We Can’t Have Fun” about the importance “play” across species.
In addition to our project of updating our website, we are also collecting quotes for The Little Book of David – a color-themed collection of Graeber’s most impactful ideas. We’re finalizing the layout and selecting the final quotes — a hard task with so many to choose from! Each edition will feature 33 chapters, sorted by topics, from care to technology, from feminism to bureaucracy. We’re inviting international publishers to curate their own versions, keeping the length consistent across languages and choosing their own cover color — all covers should be different, and we hope to collect hundreds of colors.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to our volunteers: Alessandro Diroma, Alex Manda, Alivia Stigmata, Caroline Ward, Geoffrey Royce, Järvi Kotkas, Jay Stonestreet, Martynas Snarskis, Molly Epps-Ouellette, and Smriti Chauhan., and many others, who preferred to remain anonymous.
Join us and help grow and maintain the DG archive — it’s easy! Send us reviews and podcasts in different languages, or join our team of volunteers. You can reach us at info@davidgraeber.org. The next volunteer meeting will take place in mid-April, and we’d be glad to see you there.