David Graeber, anthropologist and author of Bullshit Jobs, dies aged 59
The anarchist and author of bestselling books on capitalism and bureaucracy died in a Venice hospital on Wednesday
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24365811
cause of death is not yet known
Yeah, I’m pretty sure tptb, aren't in pain by this...
As this is published in the Guardian, it's fair to point out that David Graeber was very much outspoken against the Guardian in the last couple of years and refused to write for them again.
> as for the Guardian, we will never forget that during the "Labour #antisemitism controversy", they beat even the Daily Mail to include the largest percentage of false statements, pretty much every one, mysteriously, an accidental error to Labour's disadvantage - https://twitter.com/davidgraeber/status ... 5229094912
> these venues only allow people like me on to legitimate themselves; i.e., the Guardian would systematically refuse to allow me to say anything about the Corbyn antisemitism charges, but simultaneously beg me to write about trivial matters like Black Friday. I finally was forced to face up to the reality: they wanted the name of prominent intellectual lefties associated with them so their systematic attacks on the political left would be taken more seriously. We were being used. - https://twitter.com/davidgraeber/status ... 9542401024
> oh I'm definitely not writing for the Guardian again - https://twitter.com/davidgraeber/status ... 2991040512
https://heavy.com/news/2020/09/david-graeber/
Democracy May Not Exist: Astra Taylor and David Graeber
https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/events/past/2019/10/democracy-may-not-exist-astra-taylor-and-david-graeber
‘Banks get bailed out, slave owners get bailed out, the people get sold out.’
In her latest book, Astra Taylor – ‘a rare public intellectual, utterly committed to asking humanity’s most profound questions yet entirely devoid of pretensions’ (Naomi Klein) – argues that democracy is not just in crisis, but that real democracy, inclusive and egalitarian, has never existed. Democracy May Not Exist but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone (Verso) aims to re-examine what we mean by democracy, what we want from it, and understand why it is so hard to realise.
Taylor was in conversation with David Graeber, author of Bullshit Jobs and Professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics.
Podcast https://media.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/2019-10-18-astra-taylor-david-graeber.mp3