Steven Bachelor

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a housekeeper and creative refuser who occupies liminal space between poetic expression and outright fraud
Museum of Care
David Graeber Institute
democracy
The Museum of Care (museum.care) is partnering with esteemed anthropologist Keith Hart (credited with coining the terms "informal economy" and the "human economy") to create a new series titled Conversation of Care. We are casting a wide net in search of folks who are interested in being on the steering committee. Please reach out to me at the following email address, [email protected], if you are interested in helping.
"We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest…. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist.”
---Buckminster Fuller, 1970
Here's a link to an article on David Graeber's influence on Francis Ford Coppolla's latest film https://nofilmschool.com/books-that-inspired-francis-ford-coppolas-megalopolis
These 4 Books Inspired Francis Ford Coppola's 'Megalopolis'

Check out Francis Ford Coppola's recommend reads that inspired him.

No Film School
Here's a link to an article on Graeber's Debt, ten years later:
https://www.redpepper.org.uk/david-graeber-debt-first-5000-years/
Learning from David Graeber

We ask a number of activists and academics to tell us what David Graeber's work meant to them and the salient message it still carries today

I fondly remember that time David tried out for Led Zeppelin and, fortunately, was passed over and had to resign himself merely to becoming the most creative social scientist of his generation