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David Graeber on play: What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?

and my response: Graeber v. Gradgrind

from Technic and Magic

Is this a minor point? Maybe, but it's curious that the one place this theory intersects with my area of expertise it gets things wrong. Had an oddly similar experience with David Graeber's Debt now that I think of it.

Also see David Graeber, Radical alterity is just another way of saying “reality” A reply to Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

from Graeber vs de Castro

@Gyrus I have recently been trying to get into the agency debate between Graeber and Viveiros de Castro, I think I recall you posting about it somewhere, I don't suppose you have any reading suggestions or handy posts I have missed on your website that go into that? Thanks!

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David Graeber

30 Oct 2021 - 12 May 2025

illo credit Be Slightly Evil

How many anarchist anthropologists get profiled in Business Week?

Graeber died in 2020, this was a very moving and informative tribute by some of his colleagues and comrades.

More tributes at NYRB (paywalled, which is not very anarchist)

Older writings

Review of Graeber's Debt review

Graeber v. Gradgrind

His reputation is not all good

Debt: 4,102 days later — Crooked Timber

Martin Concagh: "Bullshit Jobs is truly one of the worst books ever written, not just for the abominable influence it’s had on the world (the worst since The Population Bomb in this respect) but because of how incredibly poorly written it is" — Bluesky