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David Graeber

After the Jubilee — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 8 pp.
After the Pandemic, We Can’t Go Back to Sleep — David Graeber Mar 20, 2021 4 pp.
Against Economics — David Graeber Apr 19, 2025 20 pp.
Against Kamikaze Capitalism — David Graeber Apr 19, 2025 11 pp.
Alienation — David Graeber Feb 5, 2023 8 pp.
All Economies are Ultimately Human Economies — David Graeber Feb 8, 2023 13 pp.
America’s Kurdish allies risk being wiped out – by Nato — David Graeber Apr 19, 2025 6 pp.
Among the Thugs — David Graeber Sep 30, 2022 9 pp.
Anarchism, academia, and the avant-garde — David Graeber Oct 9, 2022 22 pp.
Anarchism, Or The Revolutionary Movement Of The Twenty-first Century — Andrej Grubacic & David Graeber May 15, 2009 14 pp.
Anarchism, work and bureaucracy — David Graeber, Aro Velmet Oct 17, 2024 13 pp.
Anarchy — In a Manner of Speaking — David Graeber Jun 4, 2022 167 pp.
Anarchy in the USA — David Graeber Sep 30, 2022 4 pp.
Ancient History Shows How We Can Create a More Equal World — David Graeber and David Wengrow Oct 7, 2022 9 pp.
An Interview With David Graeber: Debt’s History, Implications, and Critical Perspective — Alex Bradshaw Oct 16, 2024 9 pp.
Another Art World — Nika Dubrovsky and David Graeber Apr 19, 2025 51 pp.
Another World — Michelle Kuo Sep 3, 2020 17 pp.
Anthropologist David Graeber Explains Why Dead-End Jobs Exist — David Whelan Oct 17, 2024 7 pp.
Anthropology and the rise of the professional-managerial class — David Graeber Apr 19, 2025 27 pp.
The Anthropology of Globalization — David Graeber Feb 20, 2023 18 pp.
The apocalypse of objects — David Graeber Feb 8, 2023 22 pp.
Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You! — David Graeber Nov 9, 2009 10 pp.
Are You in a BS Job? — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 15 pp.
Army of Altruists — David Graeber Dec 23, 2017 15 pp.
At long last — David Graeber Feb 20, 2023 29 pp.
Autobiography — David Graeber Nov 23, 2022 5 pp.
The auto-ethnography that can never be and the activist ethnography that might be — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 22 pp.
Basic Income & Meaningless Jobs — Austin D Munday Oct 17, 2024 5 pp.
Beads and Money — David Graeber Feb 23, 2023 51 pp.
Beyond Power/Knowledge — David Graeber Apr 21, 2025 25 pp.
Beyond the Monastic Self — David Graeber Sep 17, 2022 14 pp.
Bookforum talks with David Graeber — Rachel Jones Oct 17, 2024 8 pp.
Book review: Ethnohistory: Emerging Histories in Madagascar. Jeffrey C. Kaufmann — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 5 pp.
Book review: Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order. James Ferguson — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 5 pp.
Book review symposium: The Democracy Project, by David Graeber — David Graeber Feb 5, 2023 15 pp.
Britain is heading for another 2008 crash: here’s why — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 5 pp.
Bullshit Jobs — David Graeber Jun 2, 2018 391 pp.
Bullshit jobs and the yoke of managerial feudalism — Open Future Oct 17, 2024 8 pp.
The Bully's Pulpit — David Graeber Jun 11, 2016 19 pp.
Buncombe — David Graeber Apr 19, 2025 4 pp.
Can’t Stop Believing — David Graeber Apr 19, 2025 11 pp.
Can We Still Write Big Question Sorts of Books? — David Graeber Sep 30, 2022 8 pp.
Caring too much. That’s the curse of the working classes — David Graeber Apr 19, 2025 5 pp.
The Center Blows Itself Up — David Graeber Apr 19, 2025 19 pp.
Cities made differently — David Graeber & Nika Dubrovsky Dec 9, 2024 9 pp.
Communism — David Graeber Sep 14, 2020 19 pp.
Concerning mental pivots and civilizations of memory — David Graeber Feb 18, 2023 16 pp.
Concerning the violent peace-police — David Graeber Apr 19, 2025 12 pp.
Consumption — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 80 pp.
The Continuing Adventures of the Yes Women — David Graeber & Nika Dubrovsky Jun 11, 2023 6 pp.
Culture as creative refusal — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 37 pp.
David Graeber interview: ‘So many people spend their working lives doing jobs they think are unnecessary’ — Stuart Jeffries Oct 17, 2024 8 pp.
David Graeber Interview with ReadySteadyBook — Mark Thwaite Sep 3, 2020 15 pp.
David Graeber is Gone: Revisiting His Wrongful Termination from Yale — Joshua Frank Oct 17, 2024 8 pp.
David Graeber on acting like an anarchist — Jo Lateu Sep 5, 2020 4 pp.
David Graeber On Jeremy Corbyn, ‘The Most Unlikely Leader Ever’ — Christopher Lydon Oct 17, 2024 12 pp.
David Graeber studied 5,000 years of debt — Jay Kernis Sep 3, 2020 10 pp.
Dead zones of the imagination — David Graeber Sep 3, 2020 41 pp.
Debt — David Graeber Sep 4, 2020 104 pp.
Debt, Inequality and the Logic of Financial Violence — David Graeber Sep 17, 2022 19 pp.
Debt, Service, and the Origins of Capitalism — David Graeber Jan 28, 2022 43 pp.
Debt, Slavery and our Idea of Freedom — David Graeber and Jamie Stern-Weiner Mar 6, 2021 30 pp.
Debt: The First Five Thousand Years — David Graeber May 16, 2009 28 pp.
Debt, Violence, and Impersonal Markets — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 56 pp.
The Democracy Project — David Graeber May 27, 2024 298 pp.
Despair Fatigue — David Graeber Sep 3, 2020 20 pp.
Dickheads — David Graeber Sep 3, 2020 10 pp.
Direct Action — David Graeber Jan 31, 2022 867 pp.
The Disastrous Ordeal of 1987 — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 25 pp.
A Discussion With Anarchist Activist and Scholar David Graeber, Author of The Democracy Project — Adrian Chen Dec 22, 2022 5 pp.
The divine kingship of the Shilluk — David Graeber Sep 7, 2020 110 pp.
The elites hate Momentum and the Corbynites — and I’ll tell you why — David Graeber Sep 4, 2020 5 pp.
The era of predatory bureaucratization — Arthur De Grave Oct 15, 2024 7 pp.
Exchange — David Graeber Feb 6, 2023 30 pp.
Exclusive Interview of David Graeber — Yiannis Aktimon Mar 5, 2021 21 pp.
The Failure of Gun Legislation in the Senate Tells us we Need to fight for our Democracy — David Graeber Mar 6, 2021 10 pp.
Fancy Forms of Paperwork and the Logic of Financial Violence — David Graeber Oct 16, 2024 16 pp.
Farewell to the ‘childhood of man’ — David Wengrow and David Graeber Oct 10, 2022 51 pp.
Ferguson and the Criminalization of American Life — David Graeber Dec 22, 2022 6 pp.
Fetishism as social creativity — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 64 pp.
Finance Is Just Another Word for Other People’s Debts — Hannah Chadeayne Appel Oct 16, 2024 25 pp.
Finance Is Just Another Word for Other People’s Debts — David Graeber Feb 5, 2023 25 pp.
Flesh and Blood — David Graeber and David Wengrow Oct 7, 2022 7 pp.
Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit — David Graeber Feb 18, 2016 28 pp.
Foreword to Stone Age Economics — David Graeber Feb 18, 2023 14 pp.
Forget ‘Liberté’ — David Graeber and David Wengrow Oct 7, 2022 10 pp.
For the first time in my life, I’m frightened to be Jewish — David Graeber Jan 23, 2022 6 pp.
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology — David Graeber Sep 1, 2013 94 pp.
Freedom and Anarchy — Peterson Roberto da Silva and David Graeber Oct 14, 2022 23 pp.
From Managerial Feudalism to the Revolt of the Caring Classes — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 24 pp.
Give It Away — David Graeber Nov 15, 2010 11 pp.
The Globalization Movement — David Graeber Feb 5, 2023 10 pp.
The Greek debt crisis in almost unimaginably long-term historical perspective — David Graeber Feb 6, 2023 24 pp.
Hatred has become a political taboo — David Graeber Sep 17, 2022 10 pp.
HAU Apology — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 3 pp.
Hiding in Plain Sight — David Graeber and David Wengrow Oct 7, 2022 15 pp.
Hope in Common — David Graeber May 16, 2009 10 pp.
Hostile Intelligence — David Graeber Dec 22, 2023 14 pp.
How to change the course of human history — David Graeber, David Wengrow Jul 25, 2018 32 pp.
I didn’t understand how widespread rape was. Then the penny dropped — David Graeber Sep 3, 2020 6 pp.
“I found myself turning into an idiot!” — Elias Isquith Oct 15, 2024 7 pp.
‘I had to guard an empty room’ — David Graeber Sep 3, 2020 15 pp.
Imagination – the Solution for Society’s Problems — Milenko Srećković Oct 16, 2024 6 pp.
Imagining a world with no bullshit jobs — Chris Brooks, David Graeber Dec 22, 2022 11 pp.
Interview: David Graeber, leading figure of Occupy — JP O’ Malley Oct 15, 2024 7 pp.
Interview with David Graeber — Ellen Evans & Jon Moses Oct 16, 2024 17 pp.
An Interview with David Graeber — Rachael Kiddey Oct 17, 2024 10 pp.
Introduction to Constituent Imagination — Stevphen Shukaitis and David Graeber Feb 9, 2023 39 pp.
Introduction to Mutual Aid — Andrej Grubacic & David Graeber Sep 4, 2020 12 pp.
Is Your Job Bullshit? — Dayton Martindale Nov 28, 2021 6 pp.
It is value that brings universes into being — David Graeber Sep 3, 2020 42 pp.
It Wasn’t a Tenure Case — David Graeber Sep 16, 2020 13 pp.
‘A Kaleidoscopic Sense of Possibility’ — Lynn Stuart Parramore Oct 17, 2024 9 pp.
Manners, Deference, and Private Property in Early Modern Europe — David Graeber Feb 23, 2023 61 pp.
Manufactured ignorance — David Graeber Sep 30, 2022 15 pp.
“Many Seasons Ago” — David Graeber and David Wengrow Nov 28, 2021 44 pp.
The Meaning of Money — David Graeber Feb 5, 2023 13 pp.
The More Your Job Helps Others, The Less You Get Paid — David Graeber and Thomas Frank Mar 6, 2021 16 pp.
The movement as an end-in-itself? — Ross Wolfe Oct 15, 2024 18 pp.
The Museum of Care — Nika Dubrovsky and David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 4 pp.
Neoliberalism — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 33 pp.
The New Anarchists — David Graeber May 14, 2009 20 pp.
New Police Strategy in New York – Sexual Assault — David Graeber Mar 6, 2021 10 pp.
Notes on Desire — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 3 pp.
Note worthy: what is the meaning of money? — David Graeber Sep 3, 2020 5 pp.
“No. This is a Genuine Revolution” — David Graeber and Pinar Öğünç Mar 6, 2021 11 pp.
Öcalan as Thinker — David Graeber Feb 10, 2023 31 pp.
Occupy and anarchism’s gift of democracy — David Graeber Sep 3, 2020 5 pp.
Occupy Democracy is not considered newsworthy. It should be — David Graeber Sep 3, 2020 5 pp.
Occupy Everything — Various authors Jan 18, 2024 433 pp.
Occupy’s anarchist roots — David Graeber Sep 3, 2020 10 pp.
Occupy’s liberation from liberalism: the real meaning of May Day — David Graeber Sep 3, 2020 4 pp.
Occupy Wall Street rediscovers the radical imagination — David Graeber Sep 3, 2020 5 pp.
On Cosmopolitanism and (Vernacular) Democratic Creativity — David Graeber Feb 9, 2023 41 pp.
On playing by the rules — David Graeber Jan 23, 2022 18 pp.
On social currencies and human economies — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 36 pp.
On the invention of money — David Graeber Sep 3, 2020 20 pp.
On the Moral Grounds of Economic Relations — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 24 pp.
On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets — David Graeber Sep 4, 2020 66 pp.
On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs — David Graeber Jan 21, 2018 8 pp.
Painful memories — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 44 pp.
Policy for the Future of Work — David Graeber Feb 10, 2023 23 pp.
The Politics of Magic — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 8 pp.
Possibilities — David Graeber Sep 26, 2020 626 pp.
A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse — David Graeber Sep 3, 2020 13 pp.
Preface to Civilization: The Age of Masked Gods and Disguised Kings — David Graeber Feb 5, 2023 13 pp.
Prefiguration of a Common Dream — Qalandar Bux Memon and Zaki Abbas Oct 15, 2024 8 pp.
Punching the Clock — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 7 pp.
"Spotlight on the financial sector..." — Thomas Frank, David Gaeber Dec 22, 2022 17 pp.
Radical alterity is just another way of saying “reality” — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 71 pp.
Rebel Without A God — David Graeber Sep 3, 2020 6 pp.
The Rebirth of Anarchism in North America, 1957–2007 — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 21 pp.
Reflections on reflections — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 8 pp.
Remarks on Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Frazer — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 30 pp.
Reply to Brad DeLong — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 6 pp.
Report anarchists to the police — David Graeber Jan 23, 2022 5 pp.
A Response to Anastasia Piliavsky’s The Wrong Kind of Freedom? — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 12 pp.
Re-Thinking Resistance — David Graeber Feb 8, 2023 10 pp.
The return of ethnographic theory — Giovanni Da Col and David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 55 pp.
Revolution in Reverse — David Graeber May 16, 2009 32 pp.
Revolution in Rojava — Michael Knapp, Anja Flach, and Ercan Ayboğa Dec 20, 2020 397 pp.
The Rise of Hierarchy — David Graeber Feb 5, 2023 25 pp.
Roy Bhaskar obituary — David Graeber Sep 3, 2020 6 pp.
The Sadness of Post-Workerism — David Graeber Sep 3, 2020 35 pp.
Savage capitalism is back – and it will not tame itself — David Graeber Sep 3, 2020 5 pp.
Seminar on Debt: The First 5000 Years – Reply — David Graeber Dec 22, 2022 40 pp.
The Shock of Victory — David Graeber May 16, 2009 23 pp.
Soak the Rich — David Graeber, Thomas Piketty Sep 4, 2020 12 pp.
Some Remarks on Consensus — David Graeber Dec 22, 2022 16 pp.
Students are right to march against the markets. Why can’t education be free? — David Graeber Sep 3, 2020 5 pp.
Super Position — David Graeber Sep 16, 2020 20 pp.
The Sword, the Sponge and the Paradox of Performativity — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 33 pp.
Syria, Anarchism & Visiting Rojava — David Graeber Mar 6, 2021 12 pp.
Tallies — David Graeber Feb 5, 2023 9 pp.
Teach Me if You Can — Steven Durel Oct 15, 2024 10 pp.
There Never Was a West — David Graeber Apr 23, 2016 71 pp.
Theresa May recites Labour’s lines, but doesn’t mean a word of them — David Graeber Sep 4, 2020 5 pp.
There’s no need for all this economic sadomasochism — David Graeber Sep 4, 2020 5 pp.
The Utopia of Rules — David Graeber Jan 19, 2024 255 pp.
To Have Is to Owe — David Graeber Sep 7, 2020 22 pp.
To save the world, we’re going to have to stop working — David Graeber Sep 19, 2020 4 pp.
Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value — David Graeber Feb 9, 2023 484 pp.
The tragedy and the insects — Nika Dubrovsky and David Graeber Aug 12, 2022 9 pp.
Trump talks about wrapping up the imperial program — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 7 pp.
The truth is out: money is just an IOU, and the banks are rolling in it — David Graeber Sep 4, 2020 5 pp.
Turkey could cut off Islamic State’s supply lines. So why doesn’t it? — David Graeber Sep 4, 2020 5 pp.
Turning Modes of Production Inside Out — David Graeber Jan 25, 2020 44 pp.
The Twilight of Vanguardism — David Graeber May 16, 2009 17 pp.
Two notions of liberty revisited — David Graeber Jan 23, 2022 8 pp.
Unfreezing the ice age — David Graeber and David Wengrow Nov 28, 2021 19 pp.
The Utopia of Rules, David Graeber Interview — JP O’ Malley Oct 15, 2024 6 pp.
Value — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 30 pp.
Value as the Importance of Actions — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 96 pp.
Value, politics and democracy in the United States — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 30 pp.
The Very Idea of Consumption — David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 41 pp.
What is Debt? — Philip Pilkington Jul 13, 2023 15 pp.
What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun? — David Graeber Sep 23, 2017 18 pp.
Why America’s favorite anarchist thinks most American workers are slaves — Making Sen$e Oct 15, 2024 11 pp.
Why are world leaders backing this brutal attack against Kurdish Afrin? — David Graeber Sep 4, 2020 5 pp.
Why is the world ignoring the revolutionary Kurds in Syria? — David Graeber Nov 8, 2018 5 pp.
Why We Founded the Yes Women, an Art Group Demanding Justice for Divorcées in the Former East Germany — Nika Dubrovsky and David Graeber Nov 28, 2021 13 pp.
The Wisdom of Kandiaronk — David Graeber Sep 5, 2024 73 pp.
The “Yellow Vests” Show How Much the Ground Moves Under Our Feet — David Graeber Aug 18, 2022 7 pp.