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Results for 'david graeber'
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The Dawn of Everything
A New History of HumanityA boldly ambitious work ... entertaining and thought-provoking ... an impressively large undertaking that succeeds in making us reconsider not just the remote past but also the too-close-to-see present, as well as the common thread that is our shifting and elusive nature.
€ 26,50 -
Bullshit Jobs
The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About ItSpectacular and terrifyingly true. David Graeber's theory of the broken capitalist workforce is right - work has become an end in itself. A timely book from the most provocative anthropologist and thinker of our time.
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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
Chatty, punky, anti-everything catnip... it is good fun. It's about pirates, after all.
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L' alba di tutto. Una nuova storia dell'umanità
Da dove nascono la guerra, l'avidità, lo sfruttamento, l'insensibilità alle sofferenze altrui? E qual è l'origine della disuguaglianza, ormai riconosciuta come uno dei problemi più drammatici e radicati del nostro tempo? Da secoli, le risposte a queste domande si limitano a rielaborare le visioni contrapposte dei due padri della filosofia politica: Jean-Jacques Rousseau e Thomas Hobbes. Stando al primo, per la maggior parte della loro esistenza gli esseri umani hanno vissuto in minuscoli gruppi ugualitari di cacciatori-raccoglitori. A un certo punto, però, a incrinare quel quadro idilliaco è arrivata l'agricoltura, che ha portato alla nascita della proprietà privata. Poi sono apparse le città, e con esse si è affermata l'organizzazione fortemente gerarchica di quella che chiamiamo «civiltà». Per Hobbes, al contrario, la necessità di imporre un rigido ordine sociale si è imposta per contenere la natura individualista e violenta dell'essere umano, altrimenti sarebbe stato impossibile progredire organizzandosi in grandi gruppi. Quasi tutti conoscono queste due storie alternative, almeno nelle loro linee generali: riassumono le idee più diffuse sulla storia dell'umanità e la sua evoluzione, e hanno contribuito a definire la nostra visione del mondo. Ma pongono anche un problema: entrambe dipingono la disuguaglianza come una tragica necessità; un elemento che non potremo mai cancellare del tutto, in quanto intrinsecamente legato al vivere comune. Una visione che non convince affatto gli autori di questo libro, decisi a gettare nuova luce sul passato della nostra specie. In una sintesi tanto meticolosa quanto di largo respiro, che coniuga i risultati delle ricerche storiche e archeologiche più recenti al contributo di pensatori provenienti da culture diverse da quella occidentale, il sociologo David Graeber e l'archeologo David Wengrow ci raccontano una storia diversa ¿ più articolata e ricca di chiaroscuri ¿ dell'evoluzione sociale dell'Homo sapiens. Una storia illuminante e attendibile, dalla quale ripartire per provare a immaginare un futuro diverso.
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The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . .
Essays€ 21,95 -
Value and Worthlessness
Advocating for an interdisciplinary Marxist anthropology of the present, this book uses historical and global anthropology to engage with history, theory, unevenness, and comparison, while using "global ethnography" and "hidden histories" as the keys to social discovery. Kalb's anthropology of value and worthlessness lays bare the logics that currently produce right wing, populist, and nationalist outcomes. The book also battles with the "anthropology of global systems", financialization, and the seductive myths of global middle-class formation, while assessing the theoretical legacies of Eric Wolf, David Graeber, David Harvey, Jonathan Friedman, Marcel Mauss and "moral anthropology", among others.
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The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World . . .
Essays€ 34,95 -
Cities Made Differently
Full of playful graphics, provocative questions, and curious facts, this book asks what makes a city and how we might make them differently.What makes a city a city? Who says? Drafted over decades out of a dialogue between artist and author Nika Dubrovsky, the late anthropologist David Graeber, and Nika’s then four-year-old son, this delightful and provocative book Cities Made Differently opens a space for invention and collaboration. Fusing anthropology, literature, play, and drawing, the book is essentially a visual essay that asks us to reconsider our ideas about cities and the people who inhabit them. Drawing us into a world of history and myth, science and imagination, Graeber and Dubrovsky invite us to rethink the worlds we inhabit—because we can, and nothing is too strange or too wonderful to be true.With inspired pictures and prompts, Cities Made Differently asks what a city is, or could be, or once was. Sleeping at the bottom of the ocean? Buried in lava? What were those cities of long ago, and what will the cities of the future be? They might be virtual, ruled by AI, or islands of beautiful architecture afloat in seas of greenery. They might be utopian places of refuge or refugee camps as far as the eye can see. On land, underground or aloft, excavated or imagined, cities, this book tells us in provocative and funny ways, can be anything we want them to be—and what we want them to be can tell us something about who we are, what it is to be human, and what’s possible when we make way for wonder.Cities Made Differently exists in two versions, one for reading and thinking, the other, downloadable at a4kids.org, for drawing and dreaming.
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The Naked Neanderthal
With the style of a poet and imagination of a philosopher, Ludovic Slimak probes the minds of Neanderthals, our closest cousins. All too often Neanderthals are envisioned as either prehistoric brutes or full humans, but Slimak argues that they were something unique, a species that developed their own forms of consciousness and intelligence. In an age of artificial intelligence, this fun and provocative book is a reminder that we still have a lot to learn about biological intelligence
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Making Value
Music, Capital, and the Social“Providing the first systematic account of music from the perspective of a theorization of value, Timothy D. Taylor draws on a deep knowledge of North American music industries, world musics, and independent music scenes to show how value accrues to musical commodities as they move among complex scenes of exchange. By centering a theorization of value, Making Value’s contribution lies in its offering of an alternative to critical thinking about music in contemporary capitalism, deriving from studies of the culture industries and Adornian critique.” - Martin Stokes, King Edward Professor of Music, King's College London “Examining how the capitalist processes of valorization, commodification, and accumulation interact with the social and cultural practices that produce and profit from musical performances and recordings, Making Value will prove enlightening to academics and students working across ethnomusicology and popular music studies as well as cultural, media, and communication studies. Its erudition, succinct chapters, discrete case studies, and familiar theoretical reference points make this important book highly teachable in the classroom.” - Jeremy Gilbert, Professor of Cultural and Political Theory, University of East London
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Making Value
Music, Capital, and the Social“Providing the first systematic account of music from the perspective of a theorization of value, Timothy D. Taylor draws on a deep knowledge of North American music industries, world musics, and independent music scenes to show how value accrues to musical commodities as they move among complex scenes of exchange. By centering a theorization of value, Making Value’s contribution lies in its offering of an alternative to critical thinking about music in contemporary capitalism, deriving from studies of the culture industries and Adornian critique.” - Martin Stokes, King Edward Professor of Music, King's College London “Examining how the capitalist processes of valorization, commodification, and accumulation interact with the social and cultural practices that produce and profit from musical performances and recordings, Making Value will prove enlightening to academics and students working across ethnomusicology and popular music studies as well as cultural, media, and communication studies. Its erudition, succinct chapters, discrete case studies, and familiar theoretical reference points make this important book highly teachable in the classroom.” - Jeremy Gilbert, Professor of Cultural and Political Theory, University of East London
€ 27,50 -
El Amanecer de Todo: Una Nueva Historia de la Humanidad / The Dawn of Everything
€ 31,95