...Ayça Çubukçu Abstract This essay offers a close reading of David Graeber's posthumously published magnum opus The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), which he co‐authored with David Wengrow. The essay engages critically with the concepts of “humanity” and “freedom” that The Dawn...

... is a writer and translator. Living in New York since 1980, he has pub- lished several books in Japan and Korea about urban space, radical politics, and the philosophy of anarchism, and has translated books by theorists such as David Graeber, John Holloway, Kojin Karatani, and Arata Isozaki. After...

... Contributors  265 including Kojin Karatani and Arata Isozaki (from Japanese to English) and David Graeber (from English to Japanese). He is a member of IWW’s New York chapter and No! G8 Action Japan. Marcia Landy is Distinguished Professor in English/Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Her...

...), David Graeber summarizes a body of recent economic thought, called “primordial debt theory,” that seems uncannily consonant with the community-in-­ ­debt imagined by Wallace.44 Here, gov- ernments, imposing taxes, are understood to “have become the guardians of the debt that all citizens have...

... for a ‘‘polycentric regionalization’’ to negotiate the global and the local.38 A simi- larly useful model has been the antiglobalization protests, the continuing battles over urban space in the defense of squats and community gardens, and the tactics of movements such as Reclaim the Streets. David Graeber...

.../ . Fukuyama Francis . 2013 . “ The Middle-Class Revolution .” Wall Street Journal , June 28 , 2013 . https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323873904578571472700348086 . Graeber David . 2001 . Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Dreams . New York...

... with political changes that would take decades to accomplish” ( 2005 : 441). For the late David Graeber, on the other hand, this was not such a stretch. Like the “spirit of 1968 in America,” he once wrote, “May 1968 in Paris” was a “revolt in the name of individual liberation, pleasure, and self-expression...

... length on the closest shelf in the company of the books on climate change and next to the book I am finishing reading right now, David Graeber and David Wengrow's [ 2021 ] The Dawn of Everything . Jabèsian hospitality and multivoiced discussion without Romantic-lyrical frills (as readable...

.../documents/ISSUE35.pdf . Graeber David . 2011 . Debt: The First 5000 Years . New York : Melville House . Hellín García María José . 2018 . “ El desplome metafórico de la crisis: deshumaización, desahucios y supervivencia en Techo y comida y Cerca de tu casa .” In El cine de la...

... a neoliberal. 16. David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years (New York: Melville House, 2011). DeBoever / From Erotic Rage Bank to Thymotic World Culture 187 for these reflections—determine­ one’s entire judgment. It is clear that it will be difficult to make “friends” with these kinds...

..., it will be worthwhile to carefully examine and distinguish between sev- eral prominent intellectual trajectories of affirmation. In what follows, we describe three such trajectories in which—to anticipate later arguments— music is valorized because it: 25. As David Graeber quips, in much critical thought...

...- racy can be applied to American history must be left open for discussion. See also David Graeber, who argues along slightly different lines that there is no identifiable “source” or 36†boundary 2 / Fall 2011 ernism formulated by Benjamin, its original preoccupation with the present that can...

..., “Reification, Reanimation, and the American Uncanny,” Critical Inquiry 32, no. 2 (Winter 2006): 175–207. David Graeber provides a useful, if idiosyncratic, synopsis of the anthropological texts in his book Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams (New York: Palgrave...