David Graeber - ARTIST TAXI DRIVER Curates. - CULTURE IS NOT YOUR FRIEND - Reloaded

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    David Graeber is an American anthropologist, political activist and author. He is currently a professor at the London School of Economics and was formerly an associate professor of anthropology at Yale University. David also played a role in the Global Justice Movement and was one of the earlier organisers of Occupy Wall Street. He is the author of numerous books including The Democracy Project, and Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011)
    Twitter: @davidgraeber
    WE'RE F*CKED, IT'S OVER : #1
    CULTURE IS NOT YOUR FRIEND curated by artist and political renegade Mark McGowan - otherwise known as:
    THE ARTIST TAXI DRIVER
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    His guests for the evening include:
    + David Graeber
    + Nina Power
    + Liberate Tate
    + Dr Lisa McKenzie
    + JJ Bola
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Комментарии • 175

  • @andrespedraza512
    @andrespedraza512 3 года назад +239

    I love whatever this is. A mix of stand up comedy, political speech, history class, philosophy class and cool wise teacher energy. This guy is a legend and I aspire to be like him. Rest in power David.

    • @mrwigg1es
      @mrwigg1es 3 года назад +6

      Could you please go back and edit out the words "rant" and "old man being rambly"? They do not belong in the same paragraph as David Graeber. Thanks.

    • @andrespedraza512
      @andrespedraza512 3 года назад +15

      @@mrwigg1es i didn't mean it in a negative way, but maybe it was bad wording so i changed it. thanks

    • @morris9524
      @morris9524 3 года назад +4

      @@mrwigg1es he announced he was going to rant himself too

    • @caha9583
      @caha9583 2 года назад +2

      @@mrwigg1es but it was quite much ranting in this speech

    • @samdafoe4817
      @samdafoe4817 5 месяцев назад

      you are already living up to your aspirations, comrade! citizens over consumers, bathed in good humor. 🙂

  • @DaveE99
    @DaveE99 3 года назад +88

    “A loose cannon is someone who might act ethically, but you just never know when.” Lol

  • @ridicule1313
    @ridicule1313 2 года назад +51

    Everything about David Graeber just makes me so happy. Rest In Peace to a beautiful human.

  • @bmatthews15
    @bmatthews15 3 года назад +85

    This is the one guy that had the nuance I needed to complete my world view on politics and culture.

    • @AudioPervert1
      @AudioPervert1 3 года назад +2

      Surely your world view would (and should) be different from his, or the next person.

    • @MyLittleEmoKid
      @MyLittleEmoKid 2 года назад +11

      Hope you don't ever stop refining and working on your world view homie! Keep learning

    • @desi_anarch
      @desi_anarch 2 года назад +1

      Haha i feel the same

    • @LMvdB02
      @LMvdB02 2 года назад +5

      Always keep on learning and reviewing your assumptions!

  • @romeronickell8332
    @romeronickell8332 5 месяцев назад +8

    Love that I just found this after finishing dawn of everything. Happy that he at least got to leave a lot behind for us to enjoy

  • @filiplazz
    @filiplazz 3 года назад +48

    It's so sad he is dead. I miss the things he could have done. f2020

    • @Rebel_2891
      @Rebel_2891 3 года назад +1

      Yessss!!!!😔😞

    • @mrwigg1es
      @mrwigg1es 3 года назад +5

      Don't be sad he is dead. Be happy that his works can live on and spread knowledge! :)

    • @hipmotion
      @hipmotion 3 года назад +1

      yeah sometimes i remember and i get pretty upset, what an absolute legend:(
      we know what he'd want us to do! keep on fighting

  • @nerdtritiousnerd5233
    @nerdtritiousnerd5233 3 года назад +63

    Rest in Peace sir. "we are the 99%."

  • @michaelchikos4551
    @michaelchikos4551 2 года назад +17

    I love how different this is from like, a Ted Talk. It's like watching a famous band play a house show. What is this, he's at like a pun art museum? They started putting ambient music on in the background when he got into it, it feels like a vibe where people are having drinks.

    • @gddett
      @gddett 2 года назад +1

      The song is Beck's "Black Hole" and for some reason it just fits.

  • @Keaggan
    @Keaggan 3 года назад +24

    "If you don't have the military, police, and bailiffs hold it (capitalism) up it will all come troubling down." - *David Graeber*

    • @steviejay9245
      @steviejay9245 Год назад

      ...like every other system every attempted.

    • @voltcorp
      @voltcorp Год назад +2

      *tumbling

    • @voltcorp
      @voltcorp Год назад +3

      @@steviejay9245 not really. for one, your use of "attempted" implies that a system lasting centuries then morphing into something different is a "failure", by which standard capitalism has already failed. instead systems flow historically and locally into one another, to the point that during some parts of human history some societies would literally change government systems with the seasons. we shouldn't see our social organization as something we "marry to" and should then try to "salvage" if we're not sure something better is possible.we should see it as an ever changing facet of our lives, and one which we can and should always try to drive towards our conceptions of morality, fearlessly.

  • @thomasd2444
    @thomasd2444 5 лет назад +33

    23:40 -
    24:20 - 85 % of reported profits of J P Morgan Chase came from FEES & PENALTIES

  • @jamesmorgan9258
    @jamesmorgan9258 6 лет назад +52

    He seems a little crazy. And I like it.

  • @tigerstyle4505
    @tigerstyle4505 4 года назад +14

    "No rest til the last prison they built gets burned down or turned into a museum, and the last dollar bill they print gets tossed into a wood stove in New England.
    I can't leave the house today,
    I'm too terrified of market exchange!
    Nothing stays in the hands that made it, nobody working for eachother, everybody's working for a wage!"
    - Ramshackle Glory

    • @oldreprobate2748
      @oldreprobate2748 3 года назад

      That is what the public education system has evolved to. With the destruction of civics and goverment to a college elective those who are actually incharged have created a wage slave manufacturing machine of the public education system. Know your true enemy the Oligarthy worldwide.

  • @nathanswann1198
    @nathanswann1198 3 года назад +6

    a true American hero

  • @george474747
    @george474747 5 лет назад +29

    So it is possible to introduce a speaker without being a pompous jerk!
    I am in love with that intro...

  • @patriceortovent6451
    @patriceortovent6451 3 года назад +10

    No longer with us unfortunately, a void in creative thinking as a result. RIP David Graeber

  • @tania2897
    @tania2897 2 года назад +2

    I wish I could have met him! Such a loss... Very glad I am coming across the thoughts of David Graeber.

  • @Ticibon
    @Ticibon 6 месяцев назад +1

    RIP David! send the power from Heavan for us to spread your message.

  • @josehawking5293
    @josehawking5293 4 года назад +2

    Excellent!

  • @alvaromd3203
    @alvaromd3203 2 года назад

    Absolutely amazing!

  • @spring-tp6dr
    @spring-tp6dr 3 года назад +3

    the greatest speech I have ever heard

  • @mikaelnyberg9637
    @mikaelnyberg9637 8 месяцев назад +1

    Great talk, but does any body else hear Beck playing in the back ground? Black hole from the album Mellow Gold.

  • @9000ck
    @9000ck 3 года назад +8

    This guy was a genius. Full stop. Hands down. His mind just soars.

  • @crizish
    @crizish 2 года назад

    Great talk. A true teacher!!

  • @seth7971
    @seth7971 3 года назад +6

    i love you i Always do

  • @sarcasmo57
    @sarcasmo57 3 года назад +1

    It was a nice, I think you are right about a lot of things.

  • @DaveE99
    @DaveE99 3 года назад +4

    “If your not working at something that you don’t like every day, then your a rotten person, and you got to pay your debts”

  • @emmar9104
    @emmar9104 Год назад +1

    he's so good

  • @MoranSE
    @MoranSE 3 года назад +3

    Amazing bro. Rest In Power!

  • @instituteforexperimentalar7493
    @instituteforexperimentalar7493 3 года назад +14

    DAVID GRAEBER was a founding member of the Institute for Experimental Arts
    He did a lecture with the title: How social and economic structure influences the Art World in the Financial Consequences - International MultiMedia Poetry Festival organized by the Institute for Experimental Arts supported by LSE Department of Anthropology.
    Influential anthropologist David Graeber, known for his 2011 volume Debt: The First 5000 Years speaks about the correlation between the cultural sphere and society. The intellectuals and the artists create an imaginary way to criticize the economic system in any era. Art can overcome hegemonic frameworks and acknowledge other possible worlds, offer us the opportunity to understand better the marginalized social entities. Social exclusion is the process in which individuals or people are systematically blocked from (or denied full access to) various rights, opportunities and resources that are normally available to members of a different group, and which are fundamental to social integration and observance of human rights within that particular group (e.g., housing, employment, healthcare, civic engagement, democratic participation, and due process). As the economic crises go deeper in time more people face the effects of exclusion. Art and social sciences can give voice to the voiceless. Especially young social aware poets can give us a clear view of the real social effect of the financial consequences. - David Graeber
    You can watch the Lecture here:
    ruclips.net/video/WCF-8OQj0RE/видео.html

  • @joaofreitasmendes9314
    @joaofreitasmendes9314 8 месяцев назад

    geniality!

  • @martinsapsitis4292
    @martinsapsitis4292 Год назад

    Some lucid touche moments. Cheers

  • @DaveE99
    @DaveE99 3 года назад +7

    “Culture isn’t what you do, it’s what you don’t do.” Or what you choose to not borrow from your neighbor culture and WHY?

  • @charliebridges3584
    @charliebridges3584 6 лет назад +5

    Where the fuck has David Graeber been all my life?

  • @babyfactory587
    @babyfactory587 2 года назад +1

    was like a string of firecrackers.

    • @ximono
      @ximono 22 дня назад

      Like a mascletà

  • @raoulduke7208
    @raoulduke7208 3 года назад +9

    Bill Hicks, George Carlin, and now David Graeber. All my favorite stand-ups are gone.

    • @teosprock3508
      @teosprock3508 2 года назад +2

      This bit 'Culture is not your friend' also reminds me of the standup comedian known as Terence McKenna.

  • @roddy2body
    @roddy2body 6 лет назад +25

    What's the crazy sounds in the background.. Am I still tripping?

    • @180_S
      @180_S 6 лет назад +4

      Yeah, you're still tripping.

    • @treyquattro
      @treyquattro 6 лет назад +3

      sounded like radio interference. From the security state probably...

    • @allodoxia
      @allodoxia 6 лет назад +16

      If you listen closely, it is the last track to Beck's album 'Mellow Gold' called "Blackhole" (some of which you can hear around the 4:30 mark). The noisy synth stuff is the hidden track that follows the song proper, hence the strange noise around the 10:30 mark.

    • @sawtoothiandi
      @sawtoothiandi 4 года назад +1

      i find tin foil shields me from the demon-frequencies.......... ;-)

    • @adampeters7947
      @adampeters7947 3 года назад

      Just aliens tuning in

  • @dudeman5303
    @dudeman5303 6 лет назад +2

    Wow, they are playing Beck's album "Mellow Gold" in the background. I just noticed it because "the last song on the album, "Blackhole", starts at 3:50. They have a good taste in tunes.

  • @JonathanLaliberte1
    @JonathanLaliberte1 7 лет назад +6

    Genius.

    • @JonathanLaliberte1
      @JonathanLaliberte1 6 лет назад

      "usually"

    • @treyquattro
      @treyquattro 6 лет назад

      Occupy Wall Street?

    • @JonathanLaliberte1
      @JonathanLaliberte1 6 лет назад +1

      I have no interest in "convincing" you @krooassant. If you don't think he's a genius then fine by me, makes no difference at all. You are free to think whatever you want.

  • @charlytaylor1748
    @charlytaylor1748 6 лет назад +21

    this guy's even scruffier than me. Thumbs up.

    • @sawtoothiandi
      @sawtoothiandi 4 года назад +1

      level of scruff is directly proportional to authenticity. NB. jean/jacket combos a la Ricky Branson = deceptive semi-scruff

  • @buttercup9926
    @buttercup9926 Год назад

    idk if it's some kind of audio defect noise or what, but especially by around the middle of this if you listen in headphones at a decent volume its like he's talking over a quiet performance of a psychedelic noise band

  • @CalusaCustomConcepts
    @CalusaCustomConcepts 2 года назад

    That ender though

  • @JohnMccart777
    @JohnMccart777 6 лет назад +11

    I like his studied disarray. Very now in academia.

  • @kavvayistories
    @kavvayistories 3 года назад +1

    Adieu David

  • @desi_anarch
    @desi_anarch 2 года назад

    "Culture is Defiance"

  • @DaveE99
    @DaveE99 3 года назад +8

    “Culture is social moments that won”

  • @remirobichaud5989
    @remirobichaud5989 6 лет назад +2

    Uhm yeah!

  • @Riquelmean
    @Riquelmean 3 года назад +1

    RIP

  • @locolatino11
    @locolatino11 7 лет назад +2

    where can i find source of the fees and penalties as main income from JP morgan

    • @PetersonSilva
      @PetersonSilva 6 лет назад +5

      Since his wording is vague and there is also some vagueness in this data, I think this link might help you: www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/08/03/158047349/how-americas-biggest-bank-makes-money

  • @kyivstuff
    @kyivstuff 5 лет назад +4

    I couldn’t find Zatulu in Malagasy mythology. Am I spelling it right?

  • @jlmur54
    @jlmur54 2 года назад

    The is or was a video recording of Terence McKenna with the same title.

  • @teosprock3508
    @teosprock3508 2 года назад

    I wonder if Graeber read "Asphyxiating Culture" by Jean Dubuffet.

  • @MilesBellas
    @MilesBellas 5 лет назад +3

    should have started at 1:15

  • @RSEFX
    @RSEFX Год назад

    The more I see of him the more I feel that it IS a all bluff being cooked up on the spot, that isn't quite ready to be served. But i m willing to keep sampling a while longer to find out if this is to my taste, or could become an acquired one. RIP

  • @francismadden8561
    @francismadden8561 3 года назад +1

    when it's run by a Psycho Mafia then everybody gets a shake-down. Or disappeared.

  • @Uncleanus
    @Uncleanus 4 года назад +1

    Does anyone know the name of the essay he is referring to at 4:05? Heeeeeeelp

    • @NotN2YU
      @NotN2YU 4 года назад +3

      www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/cja/31/2/ca310201.xml
      I think this is it my man!

  • @felicityc
    @felicityc 2 года назад

    I love columbo

  • @himanshubarsinge9106
    @himanshubarsinge9106 3 года назад +2

    where can I find more stuff from this guy?

    • @letmelooktv
      @letmelooktv  3 года назад +2

      twitter @davidgraeber
      web davidgraeber.industries/

    • @wngbjngwwgk
      @wngbjngwwgk 3 года назад +3

      Check out his book Debt, the first 5000 years

    • @Johnconno
      @Johnconno 3 года назад +1

      J P Getty Museum Archives.
      X

  • @jamesmorgan9258
    @jamesmorgan9258 6 лет назад

    I really wish he'd point the microphone directly at his mouth.

  • @paulkossak7761
    @paulkossak7761 2 года назад

    I don't know what kind of substance he was on but I want some. RIP dude..

  • @marianhunt8899
    @marianhunt8899 2 года назад

    Naked extraction and naked force, absolutely. Oligarchs are creating no value whatsoever

  • @TheAlksejf
    @TheAlksejf 2 года назад

    can we get this without the cuts by chance?

    • @letmelooktv
      @letmelooktv  2 года назад +1

      No. What's been cut was by David's request. Its really only a couple if moments...

  • @kayjami1996
    @kayjami1996 3 года назад

    Hi guys, does anyone have any further recommendations - readings/videos/ personal wisdoms further to what David was saying at 13:00. So basically working-class to bourgeoisie behaviour dynamics, expectation gaps, at higher education / professional world

    • @ammarzia3061
      @ammarzia3061 3 года назад +1

      Have you read book 'Bullshit Jobs'? Might be an interesting place to start...it focuses more on bureaucratic work dynamics, which is a bit different from the Marxist view on Working Class and Bourgeoise

  • @rippedtorn2310
    @rippedtorn2310 4 года назад +2

    What was that opening ?? Im pretty high but did someone in the audience do a shit after David made up on the spot his response to a French bank robber philosopher's unintelligible latest theory? Don't even know how to word this question . 1:21 gen query btw .

  • @Lanooski
    @Lanooski Год назад

    it is pretty interesting that the anti-consumerist "mall as existential hellscape" angle comes at the individual from both extremes of political theory. reactionaries appropriate the narrative as a means of recruiting bodies for the defense of the status quo (and of course selling "classical" regressions), while those who are afforded the context and space to ponder Marx and the mechanics of capital insist that cultural product and aesthetics aren't an expression of some ground level culture. obviously from where i stand, corporations and market domination can suck it, but as i listen to this talk I'm playing Lo-Fi Girl beats, drinking coffee and eating a blueberry bagel with cream cheese. all of these things are making my day qualitatively better, even if i can hyperanalyze their systemic origins and how they made their way to me in the first place.
    my takeaway, as an autodidact dweeb who only recently found David because he's an anarchist, is that it's possible to savor and enjoy life even as you're aware of the manipulations of power, and don't need to succumb to doomerist guilt beset by an inability to practice a more socially aware life. modernity and the imagination of the people have nonetheless yielded beauty and intrigue, in spite of the dystopian will being enacted on people by a select few.

  • @Vampyrdanceclub
    @Vampyrdanceclub 3 месяца назад

    found it

  • @mehdimehdikhani5899
    @mehdimehdikhani5899 3 года назад

    1:17 professor is correct.

  • @brokenfingers98
    @brokenfingers98 2 года назад

    anybody know the name of the essay on the French coining of Civilization and Germany's coining of culture that Graeber refs between the 4 and 6 minute Mark?

    • @rainbowmonkMC
      @rainbowmonkMC 2 года назад +1

      unfortunately not but i'd also love to know

    • @szembeszel-
      @szembeszel- 2 года назад

      +

    • @arnosonderegger6633
      @arnosonderegger6633 Год назад +1

      He didn't mention one particular essay on this, but the picture he gives was painted (among others) in essays by both Thomas and Heinrich Mann in Germany in the early 20st century. ... A very good piece on French "civilization" is by Lucien Febvre, on American understandings of "culture" read into the early classics of cultural anthropology, Franz Boas, Edward Sapir and Melville Herskovits in particular, or into later versions by Clifford Geertz and/or Marshall Sahlins (who was Graeber's teacher and one-time co-author). There's a lot to learn from these writers, and loads of materials to think with. ...

  • @andersestes
    @andersestes 2 года назад

    Uuuuuuuhhhm

  • @dothedeed
    @dothedeed 6 лет назад +12

    The background music is really annoying

  • @varframppytwobtokwanguz2286
    @varframppytwobtokwanguz2286 6 лет назад +3

    Interesting hypothesis about Eastern Woodland natives, I'd be interested to see more evidence. It sounds highly plausible but I'm not totally convinced that they "just walked." The Madagascar myth example is far more compelling to me.

    • @wildyakify
      @wildyakify 4 года назад +2

      theres a lot more about this topic here: ruclips.net/video/EvUzdJSK4x8/видео.html

  • @goofycker
    @goofycker 3 года назад

    10:15 WHO made a gas car?

  • @gozogator1
    @gozogator1 2 года назад +1

    Anarchists unite!!! Question everything including this sentence.

  • @faimhurensohn7608
    @faimhurensohn7608 4 года назад

    Who's the russian guy he's referring to at 3:00? The student of Giorgio Agamben?
    Aleksandr something

  • @markcorrigan3930
    @markcorrigan3930 Год назад

    13:15

  • @patlacy338
    @patlacy338 2 года назад +1

    Columbo was cool

  • @Aermydach
    @Aermydach 2 года назад

    I'm really enjoying what old mate is saying but, WTF is up with that background music?!

  • @stockholmsyndromeself-trea7517
    @stockholmsyndromeself-trea7517 3 года назад

    Oh, Urdu! It's almost Hindi.

  • @larrysmith2636
    @larrysmith2636 3 года назад +2

    Regardless of the size of government, there will always be government and it will always be of the Marshall Stockburn and his deputies variety. NOTE: There is no bible thumping gun slinger coming to save the day.

  • @2Esaias2
    @2Esaias2 2 года назад

    Is no one going to comment about the weird background noise?

  • @Porjil09
    @Porjil09 3 года назад +2

    The music in the background is so distracting

  • @mycomment3509
    @mycomment3509 2 года назад +1

    If only somebody could put away this awful music in the background. /s

  • @The_Reality_Filter
    @The_Reality_Filter 7 лет назад +1

    Ahh look, it's Chunky Mark everyone's favourite Masonic Truther...
    He's a fellow of the craft and no mistake.

    • @roddy2body
      @roddy2body 6 лет назад

      The Conscientious Objector
      I'm suspect of the character too

    • @heyassmanx
      @heyassmanx 6 лет назад

      are you saying he's a shill or what..?

  • @AlxParrish
    @AlxParrish 2 года назад

    I can't figure out what he's saying. It seems to be another Eric weinsteinian word salad. Can anyone place a thesis in this talk? Of course we live in a neofeudal system.

  • @larrysmith2636
    @larrysmith2636 3 года назад

    Sounds like garble to me and that would be fine if I wasn't interested.

  • @prunonz479
    @prunonz479 4 года назад

    why do social anthropologists always refer to philosophers? it's not like they go out and do ethnography, they're reclusive academic armchair thinkers..pff.

  • @ebmr1479
    @ebmr1479 Год назад +1

    Colombo is his favorite show. Now I know who he modeled his appearance. He definitely looks like Colombo but what is he smoking?

  • @ebmr1479
    @ebmr1479 Год назад +1

    I didn’t know he was thrown out of the US. His presentation- sour grapes.

  • @ebmr1479
    @ebmr1479 Год назад +1

    He has a girlfriend!?! What does she look like? Picture the two of them together - what a stench!

  • @yehudahamer1655
    @yehudahamer1655 5 лет назад

    Why does this guy hate Liberalism and Socialism so much?

    • @lunaridge4510
      @lunaridge4510 4 года назад +11

      He doesn't , he is against fake "neoliberalism" which is neither new nor liberal and is against the Bolsheviks who ruined the idea of socialism for many

    • @rainbowmonkMC
      @rainbowmonkMC 2 года назад

      he is an anarchist, who rightly understands that the nation-state is bullshit and that mutual aid social way forward

  • @JN003
    @JN003 5 лет назад +1

    mostly fluff

  • @HamJamming
    @HamJamming 3 года назад

    Is there some reason why he doesn't comb his hair? Is that some kind of a virtue signal between radical SJWs?

    • @rainbowmonkMC
      @rainbowmonkMC 2 года назад

      yes, its as he would say a 'culture' - a rejection of that which our 'neighbors' do. you can always tell a fascist (normie) based on combed hair ;)

  • @canchem9825
    @canchem9825 3 года назад

    RIP