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(George Gilder) "theological version of supply side economics, ... creating money through the federal reserve and give it to entrepreneurs is actually a reproduction of the divine act of creating the world out of nothing." (20:50)
The twentieth century produced a very
clear sense of what the future was to be, but we now seem unable to
imagine any sort of redemptive future. How did this happen? One reason
is the replacement of what might be called poetic technologies with
bureaucratic technologies. Another is the terminal perturbations of
capitalism, which is increasingly unable to envision any future at all.
David Graeber likes to say that he had three goals for 2011 : to promote his new book, Debt: The First 5000 Years (Melville House), learn to drive, and launch a worldwide revolution. He's done well on the first, failed the second, and the third may be on the way, in the form of the Occupy Wall Street movement that Graeber helped initiate. He teaches anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and is also the author of Towards an Anthropological Theory of Value, Lost People : Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, and Direct Action : An Ethnography, among other books.
David Graeber gave this talk in the School of Visual Arts theater on 19 January 2012 at 7.
David Graeber likes to say that he had three goals for 2011 : to promote his new book, Debt: The First 5000 Years (Melville House), learn to drive, and launch a worldwide revolution. He's done well on the first, failed the second, and the third may be on the way, in the form of the Occupy Wall Street movement that Graeber helped initiate. He teaches anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and is also the author of Towards an Anthropological Theory of Value, Lost People : Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, and Direct Action : An Ethnography, among other books.
David Graeber gave this talk in the School of Visual Arts theater on 19 January 2012 at 7.
