What Happened to David Graeber?

From Los Angeles Review of Books

I BOW TO few in my admiration for the anthropologist, economist, radical leader, and delightful prose stylist David Graeber, who died unexpectedly in 2020 at the age of 59. Since I read his little book Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology in 2004, I’ve been telling anyone who seemed inclined to listen that he was the most important anarchist thinker since Peter Kropotkin, who died in 1921. His ideas, including those beautifully captured in his book Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), helped motivate and shape the Occupy movement, which took inspiration from his commitments to radical democracy, egalitarianism, and “prefigurative politics”—the idea that people seeking to make a revolution should try to live and organize now in a way they’d want to arrange their lives together in the future.

Review: The Dawn of Everything

From A las barricadas, translated by Freedom News UK

After reading a few Marxist criticisms of Graeber and Wengrow’s book, I decided to take a look because if something displeases a Marxist, it will surely make me laugh. After a cursory glance, I understood the rejection.

Bonjour Tristesse’s "Against Leviathan!"

From DIY Conspiracy

Trespasser’s Ἀποκάλυψις, and the Leftist Rejection of Modernity in Black Metal

Punishing new albums by Bonjour Tristesse and Trespasser exemplify black metal's tradition of rejecting modernity, while envisioning a more sustainable and equitable future.

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