Collection of the essays by David Graeber in Russian with the warning: The illegal use of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, and their analogues is harmful to your health and so on...

@davidgraeber complete redefinite what we mean by the "economy," for him the economy is first and foremost a way of organizing human relationships —not a mechanism for production of things: the most important thing we produce is not objects; we produce other people. davidgraeber.org/press/van-ha...

Tens of thousands dead in a single city. From heat and a grid that can't hold the desperate demand. This is a well-studied scenario for Phoenix, Arizona, especially this year, with El Niño arriving and data centres draining the power people need to survive. Mass death now has a postcode.

I owe to him many day of happiness: Daniil Kharms. Leningrad absurdist, children's poet, professional weirdo. Published in the children's magazines Chizh (Siskin) and Yozh (Hedgehog). Arrested three times — the last time for "defeatist attitudes." Died in a prison psychiatric ward, 1942.

Life seemed hopeless and permanently so— and then suddenly, bam. as Kharms wrote in his last poem, "Circus Printinpram" (1941)-- just before his death from starvation: The music will strike up And the circus will sway… And that, my friends, Is where our show ends today. 1/

#FoodSystems: "research has shown that in highly intensive agricultural systems, #fertilizer application can be cut substantially with little to no effect on crop #yields." theconversation.com/war-induced-...

Entire cities already exist where only refugees live, generation after generation. Can they be comfortable, safe, beautiful? museum.care/visual-assem...

A curious scandal is unfolding around ARTJOG's use of @davidgraeber's Another Art World. 1/ l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...

I had just read two messages. One was an invitation to a conference on alleged Russian interference in British politics. The other described an anti-war demonstration in Westminster against rearmament and conscription. 1/

Carnival in Nairobi and in London: 31 of October 2026! Collecting some clothes.

Empty shelves in the shops near my flat in London. Climate change! Everything is broken.

Come to the our talk on Colonial History in 30 min!

Excited to invite @nikadubrovsky.bsky.social to Imagine! What would your ideal playground look like? davidgraeber.institute/what-would-y...

47 years of Thatcherism in the UK.

Our next talk is about Sudan. and what Sudan's War Taught Us About the Unfinished Decolonization. June 18th. 1pm NYC. 6pm London. youtu.be/fqummXAQ_Uw

"We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we can’t have both."

variety.com/2026/film/fe... “…I believe that those who are drawing up the so-called blacklists will actually be exposed, and they will be the ones suffering the so-called consequences, at least on a public and social level. And this is a major change.”

Pamphlets before social media: why David Graeber’s work belongs in the oldest and most subversive publishing format there is. t.co/Oyy4yIW7MD

Solidarity ✊

via @Antropologaluna

This is exciting, please join @nikadubrovsky.bsky.social and Lisa Novak (and me ;) 5 May 4-5pm BST davidgraeber.institute/architecture...

Banksy follows a long-standing tradition of installing monuments to fools and patriotic idiots in the main squares of cities. 1/ www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Destroying the world would help to keep Trump famous for 1,000s of years. Michael Hudson explains...

Robert Skidelsky has died. @davidgraeber once wrote in NYRB that Skidelsky’s Money and Government was one of the most important books to come out of Britain in years 1/

Everybody has to use renewables! youtu.be/7RDDsuq0xK0?...

Теории и Практики Об архитектуре одиночества. сегодня в 5 pm (Лондонское время.) Присоединяйтесь!

We grew spirulina with @davidgraeber in our Portobello Road flat during COVID-19. Now it might actually matter: the food crisis is real. 1/ instagram.com/nikadubrovsk...

@annpettifor.bsky.social It is a war sanctioned and sustained by American stock and bond markets largely inflated by Silicon Valley plutocrats and their AI bubble. annpettifor.substack.com?utm_campaign...

getting really interesting

'Graeber's project of imagining new ways to live..This for Graeber, is what revolutionaries do “break existing frames..create new horizons of possibility..allows rad restructuring of social imagination”' the thing we’ve not yet tried: the unconditional part of left to own devices

This is exciting, please join @nikadubrovsky.bsky.social and Lisa Novak (and me ;) 5 May now 4-5pm BST! davidgraeber.institute/architecture...

The Middle East is full of religious extremists who blindly revere evil men. Oops! I meant *The United States* not The Middle East.

#OtD 9 Apr 1933 Italian anti-fascist actor, Gian Maria Volonté, was born. Famous for his role in the film 'A Fistful of Dollars', he held radical left-wing views, once getting arrested supporting striking Coca-Cola workers in the 1970s (see image) stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1087...

This article proposes an analysis of David Graeber's work following the methods proposed by Antonio Gramsci of exploring Marx's workhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14634996251328707

Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social, Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com & Nika Dubrovsky @nikadubrovsky.bsky.social at Institute of David Graeber @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social They talk about Ann's new book "The Global Casino"… from bankrupt casino POTUS to wet & paper oil, and much more:

This is exciting, please join @nikadubrovsky.bsky.social and Lisa Novak (and me ;) 5 May 6pm BST davidgraeber.institute/architecture...

I’m deeply attached to this film.

Donald Trump is right. There has been "regime change" in Iran. The regime has become more hardline.

Was America the promise of universality? The one we chased through revolutions, from the French to the Russian, each one collapsing into reaction, blood and bureaucracy. And the most painful part is of our lost was precisely that: the promise of universality, of a refuge, a home for everyone.

American–Israeli imperialism is a catastrophe—but do the people making these memes actually want all of this to end in a far-right turn with real antisemitism, not the kind of antisemitism that the Israeli and European elite claim to be fighting?

What pisses me off is the story: about poor fool Trump got played by vampire Bibi into a war US never wanted and how regular Americans pay at the gas pump while Israeli bigwigs count future profits. 1/ youtu.be/dvM6ps9m5tM?...

Some times ago the emergence of personal firearms democratized violence, putting armored knights on equal footing with peasants who could take them down with a single shot. and here is it again.

Prof Steve Keen and Prof Michael Hudson will give a talk about the Global Crisis we currently face. Streamed on our Youtube Channel. Friday, 27th March youtu.be/aIypIDWQAQw

You don’t need to pray. There will never be an American Gorbachev. If anything, American Gorbi would arrive only after the US collapses into a many local versions: each state will have its own. Looking forward to seeing Mamdani staying in NYC.

By now, we have all realized that the current US political spectacle looks like a sequel to the collapse of the USSR. Americans impersonate one by one all late Soviet leaders, but there was no American Gorbachev, and there never will be, as he was a genuine believer in socialism with a human face.

Biden, painfully resembled Brezhnev, struggling to put two words together. Trump has outdone Biden and even more precisely copied the next Russian president in line, Yeltsin. We all know who’s coming next. The question is whether we can change the script. youtu.be/XCWdDKxK27w?... via @YouTube

This study by Bryon and colleagues suggests that the ability to avoid conflict may well be the ancestral condition out of which humanity evolved. with @dizachster.bsky.social lawnchairanthropology.com/2026/03/12/b...

Out of the Shadows

Karp isn't just predicting the end of #bullshitjobs — he's building the technology to replace them with something worse. youtu.be/3VIdkv3Kx48?...

Technofeudalism and Bullshit Jobs explained. | Yanis Varoufakis youtube.com/shorts/VwrTY... via @YouTube