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Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB's Patreon!Credits:Guest: Benjamin RosenbaumTitle: Fire Logic by Laurie J. MarksHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughReferences:Ben's novel, The Unraveling, and latest game, The Ghost & The GolemThe Mohanraj & Rosenbaum Are Humans podcastGennaRose Nethercott's ThistlefootKelly Link's The Book of LoveAnn Leckie's Ancillary Justice & sequelsEvan Dahm's The Last Delivery & Harrowing of HellFlyaway by Kathleen Jennings (who also illustrated the Elemental Logic covers)Myers-Briggs personality testOrson Scott Card's The Tales of Alvin MakerAvery Alder on queer game mechanicsUrsula K. Le Guin's “The Day Before the Revolution”George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and FireSmall Beer PressSofia Samatar's A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged HistoriesSeth Dickinson's The Traitor Baru CormorantA Meal of Thorns 07 – THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT with Amal El-MohtarNelson Mandela wearing the Sprinbok jerseyDavids Graeber & Wengrow's The Dawn of EverythingLe Guin's Five Ways to ForgivenessIsaac Asimov's FoundationJohn W. Campbell & Joseph CampbellMaimonides & SaladinCoffee & the “Europe Sobered Up” theoryIsaac Bashevis Singer's “Yentl” & adaptations

Andreas Gehrlach zu Marshall Sahlins Essay "Die ursprüngliche Wohlstandsgesellschaft" und wie dieser unser Denken über Natur, Knappheit, Ökonomie, Technologie und Fortschritt herausfordert. Shownotes Andreas Gehrlach https://ifk.ac.at/kontakt-team/dr-andreas-gehrlach.html Sahlins, M. (2024). Die ursprüngliche Wohlstandsgesellschaft. Matthes & Seitz Berlin Verlag. https://www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de/buch/die-urspruengliche-wohlstandsgesellschaft.html Englischprachige Fassung von 'The Original Affluent Society' als pdf: https://www.uvm.edu/~jdericks/EE/Sahlins-Original_Affluent_Society.pdf Wikipedia Artikel zum Text und seinem Einfluss: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_affluent_society Marshall Sahlins: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Sahlins Extraktivismus: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraktivismus Riofrancos, T. (2024) Progressive International Summer School Class 7 - Thea Riofrancos: Extraction. (Video) https://youtu.be/PZhf-XjpLH0?si=HD0oBlG286wVaqXy Graeber, D., & Wengrow, D. (2022). Anfänge: Eine neue Geschichte der Menschheit. Klett-Cotta. https://www.klett-cotta.de/produkt/anfaenge-9783608985085-t-72#zusatzinfo Colin Turnbull: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Turnbull Pierre Clastres: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Clastres Zur neoklassischen Lehre in der Wirtschaftswissenschaft: https://wirtschaftslexikon.gabler.de/definition/neoklassik-41093 George Orwells Essay "Können Sozialisten glücklich sein?" findet sich in: Orwell, G. (2021) Anmerkungen zum Nationalismus und weitere Essays. Nikol. https://nikol-verlag.de/products/anmerkungen-zum-nationalismus-und-weitere-essays-leinen-mit-goldpragung Jean-Jacques Rousseau: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau als dessen Hauptwerk gilt: Rousseau, J.-J. (2000). Vom Gesellschaftsvertrag oder Grundlagen des politischen Rechts. Suhrkamp. https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/jean-jacques-rousseau-vom-gesellschaftsvertrag-oder-grundlagen-des-politischen-rechts-t-9783458343066 Iannerhofer, I. (2016): Neomalthusianismus. In: Kolboske, B. et al. (Hrsg.): Wissen Macht Geschlecht. Ein ABC der transnationalen Zeitgeschichte. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften. (open access) https://www.mprl-series.mpg.de/media/proceedings/9/15/N%20Neomalthusianismus.pdf Haraway, D. J. (2018). Unruhig bleiben: Die Verwandtschaft der Arten im Chthuluzän. Campus Verlag. https://www.campus.de/buecher-campus-verlag/wissenschaft/soziologie/unruhig_bleiben-14845.html Der erwähnte Brief Adornos an Walter Benjamin ist vom 18. März 1936 und enthalten in: Adorno, T. W., & Benjamin, W. (2021). Briefe und Briefwechsel: Band 1: Theodor W. Adorno/Walter Benjamin. Briefwechsel 1928-1940. Suhrkamp. https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/briefe-und-briefwechsel-t-9783518242728 (Anarcho-)Primitivismus: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitivismus Theodore Kaczynski ("der Unabomber"): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Kaczynski neolithische Revolution: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithische_Revolution Khoisan: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khoisan communia & BUNDjugend (2023). Öffentlicher Luxus. Dietz Berlin. https://dietzberlin.de/produkt/oeffentlicher-luxus/ auch als open access: https://dietzberlin.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Oeffentlicher_Luxus_digital.pdf Le Guin, U. K. (1986) The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction. https://monoskop.org/images/9/96/Le_Guin_Ursula_K_1986_1989_The_Carrier_Bag_Theory_of_Fiction.pdf Tellmann, Ute. 2017. Life & Money. The Genealogy of the Liberal Economy and the Displacement of Politics. New York: Columbia University Press: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/life-and-money/9780231182263 Tellman, Ute. 2019. "Ökonomie als Kultur" In Handbuch Kultursoziologie. Band 2: Theorien -Methoden – Felder. Herausgegeben von Prof. Dr. Stephan Moebius, Mag. Frithjof Nungesser und Prof. Katharina Scherke. Wiesbaden: Springer: https://www.springerprofessional.de/oekonomie-als-kultur/16686056 Thematisch angrenzende Folgen S03E11 - Heide Lutosch zu Sorge in der befreiten Gesellschaft https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e11-heide-lutosch-zu-sorge-in-der-befreiten-gesellschaft/ S02E32 | Heide Lutosch zu feministischem Utopisieren in der Planungsdebatte https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e32-heide-lutosch-zu-feministischem-utopisieren-in-der-planungsdebatte/ S03E02 - George Monbiot on Public Luxury https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e02-george-monbiot-on-public-luxury/ S02E48 - Heide Lutosch, Christoph Sorg und Stefan Meretz zu Vergesellschaftung und demokratischer Planung https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e48-heide-lutosch-christoph-sorg-und-stefan-meretz-zu-vergesellschaftung-und-demokratischer-planung/ S01E57 - Silja Graupe zu Alternativen Politischen Ökonomien https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e57-silja-graupe-zu-alternativen-politischen-oekonomien/ S01E07 – Jakob Kapeller zu Pluraler Ökonomik (Teil 1) https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e07-jakob-kapeller-zu-pluraler-oekonomik-teil-1/ S01E08 – Jakob Kapeller zu Pluraler Ökonomik (Teil 2) https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e08-jakob-kapeller-zu-pluraler-oekonomik-teil-2/ S02E03 - Ute Tellman zu Ökonomie als Kultur https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e03-ute-tellmann-zu-oekonomie-als-kultur/   Future Histories Kontakt & Unterstützung Wenn euch Future Histories gefällt, dann erwägt doch bitte eine Unterstützung auf Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories Schreibt mir unter: office@futurehistories.today Diskutiert mit mir auf Twitter (#FutureHistories): https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast auf Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/futurehistories.bsky.social auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/futurehpodcast/ auf Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@FutureHistories Webseite mit allen Folgen: www.futurehistories.today English webpage: https://futurehistories-international.com Episode Keywords #AndreasGehrlach, #FutureHistories, #JanGroos, #Podcast, #Interview, #MarshallSahlins, #HeideLutosch, #Knappheit, #PolitischeImaginationen, #Arbeit, #Ressourcen, #Gesellschaft, #Bedürfnisorientiert, #ÖffentlicherLuxus, #DonnaHaraway, #PluraleÖkonomik, #Wirtschaft, #Wirtschaftswissenschaft, #Liberalismus, #Neoklassik, #HeterodoxeÖkonomie, #Ökonomik, #AlternativeWirtschaft, #Kapitalismus, #Anthropologie, #Extraktivismus

Wenn wir an Sklaverei denken, dann haben die meisten von uns wahrscheinlich im ersten Augenblick die gleichen Assoziationen mit dem Begriff. Wir denken an den Transatlantischen Sklavenhandel, Baumwollplantagen in den Südstaaten, und wahrscheinlich noch an den Bau der Pyramiden in biblischen Zeiten.Aber dann erschöpft sich unser Bild. Sklaverei in Europa? Wird sehr selten diskutiert. Deswegen starten wir heute einen Vierteiler zu dem Thema. Los geht es mit der Frühgeschichte bis in die Antike.#sklaverei #sklaven #antike #geschichte #europa #frühgeschichte #pyramiden---Dir gefällt der Podcast? Dann kannst du uns gerne auf Patreon unterstützen: https://www.patreon.com/allezeitderweltWir würden uns ebenfalls riesig darüber freuen, wenn du uns eine Bewertung hinterlässt und uns auf YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@allezeitderwelt) folgst! Danke für deine Unterstützung!---Quellen & Literatur:https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/who-built-the-pyramids-htmlhttps://www.britannica.com/topic/slavery-sociologyhttps://www.davidgraeber.org/wp-content/uploads/2018-Wengrow-y-Graeber-Many-seasons-ago-Slavery-and-its-rejection-among-foragers-on-the-Pacific-Coast.pdfUndine Ott, Europas Sklavinnen und Sklaven im Mittelalter: Eine Spurensuche im Osten des Kontinents, WERKSTATTGESCHICHTE / Heft 66–67 (2014) – Klartext Verlag, Essen S. 31–53. https://werkstattgeschichte.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/WG66_031-053_OTT_MITTELALTER.pdf

Fußnoten und Literaturverzeichnisse waren früher ein klares Erkennungszeichen für “ernsthafte” wissenschaftliche Werke. Das hat sich ein bisschen verwässert (looking at you, Junot Diaz

Entgegen recht verbreiteter Ansichten - damals wie heute - waren Wissenschaftler und ihre Methoden in den Universitäten rechts und links des Eisernen Vorhangs nicht so unterschiedlich, wie man denkt. Ein Baum ist ein Baum ist ein Kernreaktor ist ein Plato und so studierten Förster, Physiker, ja sogar Philosophen, durchaus die gleichen Sachen. Sie kamen dabei auf unterschiedliche Ergebnisse, was in der Natur der Wissenschaft und der Weltansichten liegt, aber all das hatte Grenzen; man kann ein Atom nur auf ein paar Art und Weisen spalten und wenn man hinterher darüber berichten möchte, sollte man bei den Berechnungen nur in engen Grenzen auf die Ideologen um einen herum hören.Es gab natürlich eine Ausnahme: Studierte man Wirtschaftswissenschaften an der London School of Economics oder der University of Chicago stritt man sich, sicher, und sicher auch heftig, wie das im Fachgebiet wohl üblich ist, und ward dennoch als “Wirtschaftswissenschaftler” akzeptiert. Studierte man das Gleiche jedoch an der Frankfurter Uni, also, Frankfurt an der Oder, war man ein “Ökonom” und eine rote Socke und hätte sich das aus heutiger Sicht eigentlich sparen können.Das alles ist weitgehend vergessen. “Wirtschaftswissenschaftler” (also die aus dem Westen) sind immer noch angesehene Akademiker. Keine Nachrichtensendung kommt ohne Zahlen und Prognosen aus der Wirtschaft aus. Wirtschaftsweise machen darin Aussagen zum Wachstum derselben, Institute für “Weltwirtschaft”, “Wirtschaftsförderung” oder einfach nur “Wirtschaft” selbst, sehen jedes Frühjahr einen Stimmungsaufschwung von bis hinters Komma festgelegten Prozenten. Diese werden in Nachrichtensendungen verkündet, sie begründen Hoffnungen und Sorgen “in der Wirtschaft” und Dax-Vorstände, Politiker und Kommentatoren werden ganz emotional dabei. Im Herbst dann wird berichtet, in derselben Nachrichtensendung, von denselben Weisen, Instituten und Komitees, dass sich Prognosen und Stimmungen verändert haben, ach was, und aus IxKommaYpsilon Prozent, Anteil und Betrag werden derer völlig andere IxKommaYpsilons! Wie geht?! Geht!Und niemand, wirklich keiner, nie einer (es sind meist Männer), in einer solchen Nachrichtensendung hat sich je gefragt, ob sie denn wirklich Experten seien, wenn sie ihre Zahlen von vor sechs Monaten doch gerade wieder korrigieren mussten, dass diese Zahlen nie ohne Beiworte wie "entgegen den Erwartungen", und "überraschend" oder gar “schockierend” erzählt werden. Nie kommt in diesen Sendungen zur Sprache, was unzählige Brücken bauende Ingenieure, Hochhaus-Statiker, Groß- und Kleintierversorgende Veterinärmediziner oder Seen- und landschaftspflegende Berufsausübende, lauter als leise, auf der anderen Seite der Glotze flüstern und schreien: “Wenn wir einen solchen Unsinn, ungenauen Blödsinn und reinen Aberglauben produzieren würden, wäret ihr unter Euren Häusern und Brücken, samt Euren Nutztieren und -pflanzen begraben und zusammen mit dem ganzen verdammte Planeten schon lange tot!!1!”Wie kommt es, dass wochentags, direkt vor der Hauptnachrichtensendung des Ersten Deutschen Fernsehens, beste Sendezeit also, fünf Minuten einem Thema, der Börse, gewidmet werden, welches für das Einkommen von 99 % der Zuschauer genauso relevant ist, wie die Sendungen zur gleichen Zeit am Wochenende, die sich um die Lottozahlen kümmern? (und deren Zahlen unter notarieller Aufsicht so genau und richtig sind, wie es sich die Reporterin in “Börse vor Acht” nur erträumen kann)? Warum gibt es mehrseitige Wirtschaftsteile in baumvernichtenden Zeitungen, nur damit ein paar Promille der Bevölkerung in einem Lufthansaflug zwischen Frankfurt und Düsseldorf mit diesen der Sekretärin im Sichtfeld rumfuchteln können? Ein Wahnsinn.Wenn man sich um diesen Wahnsinn nicht kümmern möchte, kann man sich natürlich mit anderen Sachen beschäftigen, es gibt ja noch andere Wissenschaften, die einem den Tag vertreiben. Medizin zum Beispiel oder Biologie. Neue, epochale Medikamente werden da erfunden in Dänemark. Doch was wir lesen ist, dass das dänische Bruttosozialprodukt um 0,4 % gestiegen ist, weil eine Medizinfirma ein Abnehmmittel erfand. Das lesen wir als erstes. Wir lesen nicht, wie es funktioniert, für wen es hilfreich ist. Die Nachrichten verkünden, dass das Zeug viel zu teuer für die Krankenkassen sei. Wir lesen nicht über die Menschen, denen es hilft. Und vom Fakt, dass es millionenweise Übergewichtigen gelingt mit Hilfe der Droge von Ihrer Fresssucht loszukommen bleibt in den Webspalten übrig, dass das der Supermarktkette Walmart den Börsenkurs versaut.Ok, das war nix, schauen wir.. wohin mal schnell? Ok, Insektenforschung, Entomologie, wenn man schlau klingen will. Was wird entdeckt, was verschwindet, wie fickt die Biene?! Immer weniger, lernen wir und das bedeutet Ernteausfall, Dürre und damit der Niedergang ganzer Wirtschaftszweige. Ok, zeig mir irgendwas anderes als Wirtschaft, Frau Google! Wir blättern und wischen verzweifelt: Modeseiten berichten von Werbung auf Tiktok, Literaturbeilagen berichten von Verlagen gegen Amazon, Musikmagazine vergleichen Spotify und Apple Music. Es geht immer nur um Wirtschaft. Wohin fliehen?In die Geschichte! Das ist die Lösung! Den Kapitalismus gibt's seit drei-, vierhundert Jahren, lesen wir also über das Mittelalter - Problem gelöst. Gehen wir kein Risiko ein: Gehen wir an den Anfang der Menschheit zurück, nehmen wir uns ein dickes Buch, was die Story von Beginn an erzählt, als wir alle nackig waren und noch keine Wirtschaft war!“Anfänge: Eine neue Geschichte der Menschheit” heißt dieses Buch auf Deutsch, erschienen ist es im Januar 2022 und es ist so dick und reich und anregend, dass ich immer noch drin lese. “The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity", so haben es im Original die Autoren genannt. Diese sind der brillante, originelle, witzige und leider viel zu früh verstorbene David Graeber, ein Anthropologist und sein Kollege aus dem Fach Archäologie: David Wengrow.Die Autoren erklären zunächst, warum sie eine neue Geschichte der Menschheit schreiben und die Erklärung ist so einleuchtend, wie sie für mich überraschend war. Sie geht so: Die Geschichtsschreibung, die wir heute in der westlichen Welt lernen und lesen, ist in den größten Teilen nicht älter als 100-200 Jahre. Auch ist sie erstaunlich ähnlich, egal ob man sie in den letzten 70 Jahren links oder rechts vom eisernen Vorhang gelehrt bekommen hat. Ok, die Prognose wer am Ende gewinnen wird, war leicht unterschiedlich, aber die Stories die erzählt wurden, von der Frühzeit bis zum unweigerlichen Sieg der kommunistischen oder eben marktwirtschaftlichen “Freiheit” ähnelten sich doch sehr. Das liegt daran, dass in den letzten paar hundert Jahren die Welt im Westen (zu dem wir hier auch den Osten Europas zählen) materialistische und paternalistische Grundideologien hatte, und genauso materialistisch und paternalistisch wurde jede Quelle, jede Ausgrabung, jedes Mosaik und jedes gefundenen Höhlenbild interpretiert und in die eigene Weltsicht eingepasst. Damit zementierte man diese Weltsicht und verhinderte eine andere und das behindert nicht nur das Sehen eines vielschichtigen und am Ende wahrscheinlichen Bildes der Geschichte der Menschheit, es verhindert auch die Sicht auf eine vielfältige und offene Zukunft ebendieser.Das macht Wengrow und vor allem den selbsternannten Anarchisten Graeber äußerst wütend. Man könnte von Wissenschaftlern erwarten, dass sie in Werken, in denen sie andere solche kritisieren, für diese ein gewisses Verständnis aufbringen, für deren Umstände, in denen Theorien und Werke entstanden, man selbst kann als Wissenschafter ja unmöglich fehlerfrei sein. Nicht so die beiden Davids, sie ziehen vom Leder, es ist eine Freude. Das macht das Buch wohltuend zu lesen für den Laien, der sich auf ihrer politischen Seite wähnt (also idealistische Feministen wie mich). Die andere Seite, die alten Bewahrer der Welt (m), die ihre Reputation zerstört sehen durch die +600 Seiten an alternativen Interpretationen, alternativen Theorien, alternativen Blicken auf die gleichen Quellen, Ausgrabungen und Zeitzeugen, diese gehen sicher hart ins Gericht mit dem Buch. Ich bin auch diesmal meiner Regel treu geblieben, keine Rezensionen zu Werken zu lesen, bevor die meine nicht veröffentlicht ist. Aber das Buch ist so voll von Kritik am bestehenden materialisitisch-patriarchalen Geschichtsbild, dass die Bingokarte recht schnell voll ist mit garantiert in Rezensionen auftauchenden Worten: “woke”, “social justice” oder “feminist history” werden dabei sein. Ich hole schon mal den Bingostempel.Nun stehe ich der Geschichtswissenschaft mit einer gewissen Grundskepsis gegenüber, die man früher äußern konnte, ohne in den Verdacht des Schwurbler- und Querdenkertums zu geraten. Sie ist in vielem unberechtigt, aber so tief verwurzelt, dass ich sie schwer los werde. In der DDR in die Schule gegangen, in der die Weltläufte nicht immer allzu zusammenhängend übermittelt wurden, bekam ich ein paar Jahre später die Stasi-Akten meiner Familie auf den Tisch, also Quellen aus allererster Hand, deren Inhalt wir als direkte Zeitzeuge auf Richtigkeit überprüfen konnten. Wir haben selten so gelacht. So viel war falsch, ja lächerlich. Anderen ging es ähnlich, so zwischen drei und fünf Millionen Menschen, schätzt man, hatten ähnliche Erfahrungen und haben dennoch jeden Scheiß geglaubt, den sich der Spiegel über, sagen wir: Manfred Stolpe, aus dessen Stasiakten zusammenreimte. Aus solchen Artikeln wurden irgendwann Bücher und diese werden aktuell und in Zukunft in Schulen gelehrt. Was dabei in künftigen Generationenköpfen entsteht, werden Geschichten sein, aber nicht “die Geschichte”. Extrapoliert man diese minimale Episode an “falscher Geschichte” hoch bis in die Prähistorie, bleibt einfach nicht viel übrig, von dem, was wir über uns zu wissen meinen. Das Thema sprechen David Graeber und David Wengrow an, sie erläutern ihre Meinung dazu (eine andere als die meine, logisch, es ist ihr Job) und können aber natürlich ihre neue Geschichte nicht ohne die Worte “könnte”, “hätte” oder “wäre” schreiben. Sie weisen, wie es sich gehört, darauf hin, dass alles auch ganz anders gewesen sein könnte, aber was geschrieben ist, erhält deklaratorischen Wert, der einschränkende Halbsatz ist schnell vergessen.So berichten Graeber und Wengrow von neuen Erkenntnissen in der Archäologie: diese entstehen nicht nur durch den technischen Fortschritt in Altersbestimmung, Radiologie oder DNA-Sequenzierung sondern auch, weil das Feld nicht mehr nur von schnauzbärtigen Männern mit Hüten betrieben wird sondern von Frauen oder Wissenschaftlern, die nicht unbedingt dem Okzident entstammen. Wenn diese auf ihre Entdeckungen schauen, tun sie das nicht mehr durch die koloniale Brille von Eroberung und Ressourcenextraktion. Wir erfahren von nordamerikanischen Tribes, die in fast gleichen Lebensräumen völlig unterschiedliche Arten des Zusammenlebens praktizierten. Es gab natürlich die expansiven Apache und Comanche, parallel aber eben zu Tribes die sich am Ende der Ernte zum potlatch trafen und diese gerecht verteilten. Über erstere schreiben sich die besseren Stories, wenn man die Jugend mit der eigenen raubmordenden Kolonialisierung versöhnen möchte, für eine Welt, die noch ein paar hundert Jahre halten soll, sind die Berichte von kommunalen Praktiken der Tlingit, Haida oder der Chinook wichtiger - und dass der Leser von diesen drei wahrscheinlich nur eine kennt, sagt alles über den Zustand unserer Welt.Wir erfahren, in einer der für mich interessantesten Aspekten der modernen Anthropologie, dass auch unser zeitlicher Blick auf gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen beengt zu sein scheint. Gesellschaftliche Strukturen sehen wir aus moderner Sicht in Jahren, Jahrzehnten oder Jahrhunderten. Viel wichtiger, ja, ist auf einmal logisch, sind Jahreszeiten. Wir lernen über, Bingo, Amazonastribes, die in der Trockenzeit in streng hierarchischen Gruppen jagen, mit brutalen Führern und unterdrücktem Fussvolk. In der Regenzeit sind diese Führer dann ganz normale Mitglieder der Gemeinde und führen ohne jeden Ansehensverlust die “niederen” Tätigkeiten aus, die dann nötig sind. Und nun stellen wir uns Friedrich Merz vor, wie er bei Netto an der Kasse sitzt.Man sollte nicht erwarten, am Ende des Buches die “richtige” und “wahre” Geschichte der Menschheit zu kennen. Speziell der unermüdlich progressive und nochmal etwas politischere der beiden Davids, nämlich David Graeber, hat dieses, sein letztes Buch, wohl auch als Zukunfts- denn als Geschichtsbuch geschrieben. Denn wenn man die scheinbare Vorherbestimmtheit unserer aktuellen materialistischen Money-Money-Welt nicht hinnehmen will, reicht es nicht, den Leuten zu erzählen, dass alles, was sie über diese Welt wissen, aus dieser Weltsicht heraus vermittelt wurde. Man muss ihnen die alternativen Geschichten und deren Quellen aufzeigen. Und das passiert auf ganz wunderbare, verständliche und ausführliche Art und Weise in diesem Buch. Es liest sich wie der spannendste Geschichtsunterricht, den man nie hatte, es fliegt mit Dir durch die Zeiten und über Kontinente. Das Buch ist ein Almanach und ein Kneipenquizlexikon und am Ende hast Du das seltsam gleichzeitige Gefühl mehr zu wissen und viel weniger. Denn Dir ist die Gewissheit abhanden gekommen zu wissen, woher wir kommen und damit die, dass alles so kommen wird, wie Dir jeden Tag in “Börse vor Acht” erzählt wird. Oder wie es David Graeber 2015 in einem anderen Buch mit seinem Wohl bekanntesten Zitat zusammenfasste:“Die ultimative, geheimste Wahrheit unserer Welt ist, dass sie etwas ist, das wir erschaffen, und genauso gut anders erschaffen können.”Damit wir das nicht vergessen, sollten wir dieses Buch lesen. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lobundverriss.substack.com

Cyril och Stig har läst antropologen David Graebers och arkeologen David Wengrows storverk Mänsklighetens historia. I generationer har vi betraktat människans avlägsna förfäder som barnsliga eller primitiva. Vi ser dem antingen som fria, jämlika och oskuldsfulla primater, eller som tjuvaktiga och krigiska bestar. Vi har fått lära oss att civilisationen bara kunde uppstå genom att vi gav upp vår ursprungliga frihet och tämjde våra barbariska instinkter. Graeber och Wengrow visar oss att detta är fel. Det vi länge tagit för givna sanningar om människan har rötterna i 1700-talets konservativa motreaktion mot upplysningens kritik av det europeiska samhället. Ändå formar de fortfarande vår historiesyn, och leder till felslut om hur jordbruk, privat egendom, städer, demokrati, slaveri och vår civilisation egentligen uppstod. Utifrån deras bok diskuterar Cyril och Stig äganderätt, Nordamerikas indianer, den europeiska upplysningstiden, asiatiska språk, patriarkat och matriarkat mm. Missa inte detta intressanta och kunskapsrika samtal.Vi kan också erbjuda en rabattkod till skådespelaren Dragomir Mrsics succébok om självutveckling "21 dagar med Dragomir Mrsic" - gå till 21days.se och ange antingen Cyril eller Stig i kassan (den ni gillar bäst!)Stötta oss gärna på Swish nr 123 535 48 57 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Uno studio condotto da ricercatrici francesi e statunitensi dimostra che le nostre antenate erano abili cacciatrici, tanto quanto e forse pure più degli uomini. Uno studio approfondito che ha preso in esame la fisiologia, l'antropologia e la paleontologia nostra e dei nostri antenati. Morale: occorre rivedere l'idea che tra gli esseri umani arcaici c'era una netta divisione dei compiti dovuta alle differenze fisiche tra donne e uomini perchè la storia è davvero molto diversa. Ne ho parlato con Enrica Albera e Pegah Moshir Pour. Con la voce di Gaia Grassi. Le fonti. L'articolo con la ricerca (inglese). Stesso articolo in italiano. Donne cacciatrici nel neolitico. Una sintesi dello studio. L'Homo erectus, una carta di identità. Differenze tra muscoli e generi (inglese). I libri. Daniel Lieberman, “La storia del corpo umano”. Codice Edizioni. 2018. D. Wengrow, D. Graeber, “L'alba di tutto: una nuova storia dell'umanità” Rizzoli. 2022. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “Discorso sull'origine e i fondamenti dell'ineguaglianza tra gli uomini”. Editori Riuniti. 2018. Il video con l'intervista a Kathrine Switzer, la prima donna alla maratona di Boston. Ho chiuso la puntata, dopo i saluti e la sigla finale, con un frammento del film "Berlinguer ti voglio bene" del 1977, diretto da Giuseppe Bertolucci, interpretato da Roberto Benigni. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tue ohjelmaa Patreonissa: https://t.ly/JVRpm Jakson esittelyteksti: https://t.ly/fOlDG Vieraana anarkismista, tekoälystä ja käsityöläisyydestä kiinnostunut, kvanttitietokoneisiin kryogeniikkajärjestelmiä tuottavalla Blueforsilla projektipäällikkönä työskentelevä muusikko Kim Åke. Jakso taltioitiin 01.06.2023. Lataa mp3: https://t.ly/DXdpB Videoversio: https://youtu.be/T54okIetp4o Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3YWqDZQ Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3QXtqjm RSS: http://bit.ly/3zsSJ1X Faktantarkistus: Käsitystä sienten ja hiilen kytköksestä on haastettu. Artikkelista https://t.ly/NF2b5: “the Carboniferous-Permian peak and subsequent decline in coal production most likely reflects a unique combination of tectonics and climate with the particular details of the evolution of plant and fungal community composition bearing no direct relevance.” 00:00:00 Esittely 00:03:24 Kuka on Kim Åke? 00:08:50 Onko ihmisellä muuttumatonta ydinolemusta tai sielua? 00:13:55 Tekoäly ajattelun apuvälineenä 00:26:05 Vuorovaikutus GPT:n kanssa 00:31:28 Tekoäly taiteen, politiikan ja trollauksen tukena 00:37:57 Joskus on hyvä hakea hyväksyntää 00:46:02 Tekoälyille runoilu, ihmiset paskaduunit 00:50:08 Kuka omistaa taiteen? 00:54:12 Miten resursseja tulisi jakaa? 01:01:01 Kapitalismi ja yksilö 01:04:38 Voiko tekoälyllä monistaa sosiaalista pääomaansa? 01:11:02 Nettikirjoittelu ajattelun opettajana 01:15:00 Kimin työ kvanttitietokoneiden jäähdytysjärjestelmien parissa 01:19:48 Kvanttitietokoneiden salat 01:28:56 Kvanttitietokoneiden käyttösovellukset ja hakkeriasenne 01:35:09 Miksi kvanttitietokoneet tarvitsevat niin tehokasta jäähdytystä? 01:44:20 Fiksuuden rajat ja tiedon ahnehtiminen 01:57:20 Korona ja misinformaatio 02:01:56 Korona ja soveliaiden näkökulmien mielivaltaisuus 02:11:59 Ajattelun keskeyttävät leimakirveet 02:16:15 Vituttavin ajatus voittaa 02:22:58 Luomuviljely – huonot perusteet, hyvä lopputulos? 02:29:13 Konservatiivisuus ja varovaisuusperiaate 02:36:45 Graeber, Wengrow ja päätöksentekomenetelmien kirjo 02:45:31 Anarkismi 02:56:26 Lineaarisen kehityksen myytti 03:06:28 Kiertotalous, käsityöläisyys ja korjaamisen kiemurat 03:11:54 Fossiiliset polttoaineet ja sienikunta 03:18:37 Energia, Star Trek ja edistys 03:33:49 Pitäisikö resurssit jakaa tasan? 03:40:37 Voiko epäoikeudenmukaisuudesta seurata hyvää? 03:48:44 Ovatko kaikki yhtä hyviä hallitsemaan resursseja? 04:01:29 Oikeisto- ja vasemmistoanarkismin suhde 04:13:36 Patagonia ja systeeminen muutos 04:28:08 Moolok, 90-luvun lopun toiveikkuus ja kriisit mahdollisuuksina 04:41:48 Eilisen tekoälytaide ei säväytä 04:46:46 Patentit, avoin lähdekoodi ja tekoälyt tutkimusmatkana 05:06:41 Kimin tekoälyprojekti kuvataiteilija Teemu Raudaskosken kanssa 05:19:41 Hallitsemattomuus ja kuvatekoälyjen kehityksen rajat 05:24:29 Käsityöläisyys musiikissa 05:39:06 Kim vihaa duureja 05:45:37 Kim ei ole koskaan käyttänyt päihteitä 06:01:17 Ukrainalaisia myrkkysieniä 06:09:26 Loppulyhyet Eleuther AI https://t.ly/U2oY7 Vice ja tekoälyt työtehon maksimoijina https://t.ly/sXdor Virtuaalityttöystävä https://t.ly/sJ7pF Penrosen The Road to Reality https://t.ly/YI_8o Graeberin ja Wengrow'n The Dawn of Everything https://t.ly/6_6x4 Hagan Healing Resistance https://t.ly/qfxzz Polanyin The Great Transformation https://t.ly/7xgU6 Graeberin Debt https://t.ly/IkxbJ Hickelin Less is More https://t.ly/E8ieO Sheldraken Entangled Life https://t.ly/34Qto Roslingin Faktojen maailma https://t.ly/7AImw Timo Honkela podcastissa https://t.ly/iou_h Kokismainos https://t.ly/6N2Wo Googlen vuodettu muistio https://t.ly/-NV5C Kimin Instagram https://t.ly/W6wYv Kimin Facebook https://t.ly/nyyfp Kimin LinkedIn https://t.ly/bqyvX Aavepyörä-nettisivu https://t.ly/dZbTf Kimin käsityöt https://t.ly/XKWj3 – Ihmisiä, siis eläimiä -podcast: • FB: https://t.ly/Ue4eT • X: https://t.ly/qRvHG • IG: https://t.ly/cXR82 • Youtube: https://t.ly/Bd6id

In July 2023, the world experienced three consecutive days which were the hottest day on record. In fact, an interview with the Washington Post cited that it was the hottest day for 125,000 years. What does that mean? Well, today's episode will put that number into prehistorical and historical context, as well as compare our current global warming to an example of change from the Cretaceous. 1) Blum, M. G. B., and Jakobsson, M. (2010), Deep Divergence of Human Gene Trees and Models of Human Origins. Molecular Biology and Evolution 28(2): 889- 898. 2) Cavalheiro, L., Wagner, T., Steinig, S., Bottini, C., Dummann, W., Esegbue, O., Gambacorta, G., Giraldo-Gómez, V., Farnsworth, A., Flögel, S., Hofmann, P., Lunt, D. J., Rethemeyer, J., Torricelli, S. and Erba, E. (2021), Impact of global cooling on Early Cretaceous high pCO2 world during the Weissert event. Nature Communications 12: 5411. 3) Dee, M., Wengrow, D., Shortland, A., Stevenson, A., Brock, F., Flink, L. G. and Ramsey, C. B. (2013), An absolute chronology for early Egypt using radiocarbon dating and Bayesian statistical modelling. Proceedings of the Royal Society A 469: 20130395. 4) Gómez-Robles, A. (2019), Dental evolutionary rates and its implications for the Neanderthal–modern human divergence. Science Advances 5(5): eaaw1268. 5) Haber, M., Jones, A. L., Connell, B. A., Asan, E. A., Yang, H., Thomas, M. G., Xue Y. and Tyler-Smith, C. (2019), A Rare Deep-Rooting D0 African Y-Chromosomal Haplogroup and Its Implications for the Expansion of Modern Humans Out of Africa. Genetics 212(4): 1421-1428. 6) Hublin, J.-J. (2017), The last Neanderthal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114(40): 10520- 10522. 7) Jones, D. (2007), The Neanderthal within. New Scientist 193(2593): 28-32. 8) Osborne, M., Smithsonian Magazine (2023), Earth Faces Hottest Day Ever Recorded- Three Days In A Row (online) [Accessed 07/07/2023]. 9) Pettitt, P. B. (1999) Disappearing from the World: An Archaeological Perspective on Neanderthal Extinction. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 18: 217-240. 10) Plant, V., Exeposé (2019), Things are Heating Up (online) [Accessed 07/07/2023]. 11) Sands, L., Washington Post (2023), This July 4 was hot. Earth's hottest day on record, in fact (online) [Accessed 07/07/2023]. 12) Stringer, C. (2012), The Status of Homo heidelbergensis (Shoetenstack 1908). Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News and Reviews 21(3): 87- 125. 13) Su, D., The Conversation (2022), How many ice ages has the Earth had, and could humans live through one? (online) [Accessed 07/07/2023]. 14) Zhang, S., truthout (2023), July 3 Was the Hottest Day on Record. Then July 4 Came Along. (online) [Accessed 07/07/2023]. 15) Author unknown, CNN (2023), Global temperatures break heat record (online) [Accessed 07/07/2023]. 16) Author unknown, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History (date unknown), Homo neanderthalensis (online) [Accessed 07/07/2023]. 17) Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Mesozoic (online) [Accessed 09/07/2023]. 18) Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Palaeogene (online) [Accessed 09/07/2023].

.player4482 .plyr__controls, .player4482 .StampAudioPlayerSkin{ border-radius: px; overflow: hidden; } .player4482{ margin: 0 auto; } .player4482 .plyr__controls .plyr__controls { border-radius: none; overflow: visible; } .skin_default .player4482 .plyr__controls { overflow: visible; } Your browser does not support the audio element.  In this episode, Dr. Sandy Smith-Nonini interviews Dr. Tom Love, professor emeritus at Linfield College. Dr. Love discusses why energy is so important in studies of the climate transition, and why the field of anthropology is well-suited to the study of energy in terms of the field's history and premise. Economic anthropologists, in particular, are well positioned to explore the inter-disciplinarity of energy and the economy. Sandy also drew on Tom's past explorations of peak oil and more recently his involvement with colleagues in ongoing work in net energy (Energy Returned on Energy Invested) to interrogate why these debates remain highly relevant to the climate transition. Finally, Sandy talked with her guest about his most recent work as a co-founder and developer with other colleagues of the Planetary Limits Academic Network (PLAN) website – which is providing a forum for these discussions and for public scholarship. Guest Bio: Tom is emeritus professor of anthropology at Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon. He co-edited the Cultures of Energy reader with Sarah Strauss and Stephanie Rupp (Left Coast Press, 2013, 2016) and authored The Independent Republic of Arequipa (University of Texas Press, 2017). He co-edited with Cindy Isenhour a 2016 issue of Economic Anthropology on “Energy and Economy.” Tom has done field research on solar energy in rural Peru. He is a founding organizer with other scholars of PLAN –the Planetary Limits Academic Network website: https://planetarylimits.net/user/tomlove/. Music: Borough by Molerider at Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue). References: Campbell, C. and J. Laherrere. (1998). “The End of Cheap Oil,” Scientific American, Vol. 278, No. 3, 78- 83. Graeber, D. and D. Wengrow. (2021). The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Hornborg, Alf. (2016). Global Magic: Technologies of Appropriation from Ancient Rome to Wal Street. Palgrave. _____ & C. Isenhour. (2016). Energy and Economy: Re-cognizing High Energy Modernity as an Historical Period. In Love & Isenhour, eds., Economic Anthropology, 3:1 “Energy and Economy.” _____ & D. Murphy (2016). Implications of Net Energy for the Food-Energy-Water Nexus; An NSF-funded workshop, Linfield College, 14-16 January. Mitchell, T. (2011). Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil. Verso. Strauss, S., S. Rupp and T. Love, eds. (2013/2016) Cultures of Energy: Power, Practices, Technologies. London: Routledge. Murphy, D.J.; et. al. (2022). Energy Return on Investment of Major Energy Carriers. Sustainability, 14, 7098. Wilhite, H. (2013/2016). Energy Consumption as Cultural Practice. In Strauss, S., S. Rupp and T. Love, eds. Cultures of Energy: Power, Practices, Technologies. London: Routledge. Wilk, R. and Cliggitt, L. (2007/2008). Economy and Cultures, 2nd Ed. Taylor and Francis.

Quando è nata la civiltà? Quali sono state le tappe che hanno portato l'Homo Sapiens dallo stato animale a quello semi-divino? Come si è sviluppato il progresso? Queste domande ci ossessionano da sempre, e nonostante da almeno un paio di secoli abbiano abbandonato le riflessioni accademiche di antropologi, storici e archeologi, continuano a essere al centro di dibattiti e successi editoriali. "Sapens. Da animali a dèi" di Harari è uno di questi: con un'invidiabile abilità narrativa e uno sguardo che tenta di abbracciare millenni di trasformazioni culturali in poche pagine, ha scalato le classifiche di vendita e si è ritagliato un posto in molte librerie - compresa la mia. Eppure, forse, la sua narrazione non è così perfetta come si presenta. Anzi, a distanza di oltre un decennio è un esercizio critico molto utile ripensare in profondità il suo approccio, comprendendone i non-detti e svelandone i presupposti metodologici e ideologici. In questo ci dà una mano un altro libro, più recente, di Graeber e Wengrow, dal titolo più che mai suggestivo: "L'alba di tutto"...

Season 2, Episode 1 is finally here! And y'nz are not gonna believe it, but we have…A PLAN! This season we will use the amazing book by the late David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: a New History of Humanity to frame many of our discussions about  the Bible. We love this book — enough to shamelessly crib from the title for the name of Episode 1. We spend a good bit of time discussing the book and why it's important, and we give particular attention to what Graeber and Wengrow describe as three freedoms that are a common pursuit across human history and prehistory. They are: freedom to move away or relocate from one's surroundingsfreedom to ignore or disobey commands issued by othersfreedom to shape entirely new social realities, or shift back and forth between different ones.But the big question is: what does this possibly have to do with the Bible or religion or Christianity? After some general examples of where we see these freedoms expressed in the Bible, we dig into a truly wacky and wonderful passage from Genesis 30 in some detail. We think it turns out to be a fairly fruitful approach and we hope you'll agree. What we're drinkingNeil: XinguPhil: Dragon's Milk White

This month we are thrilled to be joined by University of Helsinki doctoral researcher Mariam Khawar. Mariam is in the Doctoral Programme in Political, Soci­etal and Regional Change, which is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences and is affiliated with Helsinki Centre for Global Political Economy. Mariam's work focuses on Islamic economic philosophy, specifically through a Marxist lens. Her work is highly interdisciplinary drawing on feminist political economy, economics, and feminism in Islamic theology and philosophy. She is working toward filling in gaps in the theoretical materials in that discipline. This work started during her master's studies at King's College London, where she made an analysis of Islamic banks during the 2007 financial crisis. We discuss the role of research within global capitalist banking and how her research is not about banking and finance. Rather Mariam focuses on the philosophical aspects of Islamic economics. She interrogates questions like what constitutes economic agents within Islamic economic philosophy. Within the conversation Mariam reminds us to think outside the box and to always be boldly interdisciplinary in academic work. If you would like to follow Mariam's work, check out her profile at University of Helsinki. Resources Ayubi, Z. (2019) Gendered morality: Classical Islamic ethics of the self, family, and society. New York: Columbia University Press. Cooper, C. & Jack, V. (2023) ‘Mind-boggling' profits for big oil puts tax hikes back on the agenda. POLITICO [online]. Available from: https://www.politico.eu/article/record-profits-big-oil-tax-hikes-war-ukraine-russia/ Graeber, D. & Wengrow, D. (2021) The Dawn of Everything: A new history of humanity. First American edition. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Hefner, R. W. (2006). Islamic economics and global capitalism. Society, 44(1), 16-22. Milanović, B. (2016) Global Inequality: A new approach for the age of globalization. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Wadud, A. (2015) ‘The Ethics of Tawhid over the Ethics of Qiwamah', in Men in charge? rethinking authority in Muslim legal tradition. p. 28. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/exalt-initiative/message

Chris Smaje is a social scientist by training and a small-scale farmer by occupation. For the past 19 years, he has co-worked a small farm in Somerset, in southwest England.  Previously, he was a university-based social scientist, working in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surry and the Dept of Anthropology at Goldsmith's College. HIs focus was aspects of social policy, social identities and the environment. Since switching focus to the practice and politics of agro-ecology, he's written for various publications, such as The Land, Dark Mountain and Permaculture Magazine, as well as academic journals such as Agroecology and Sustainable Food systems. He blogs at Small Farm Futures and has previously been a director of the Ecological Land Co-op.  His latest book, A Small Farm Future, forms the basis of this conversation - in it, he lays out Ten Crises of our times, which, put together, create the Wicked Problem of this moment in history. From there, the remaining three parts of the book explore the ways in which rural localism can offer a way for humanity to see itself through the numerous crises we currently face both in the richer and poorer countries. In the podcast, we take the book as our starting point (really, you should read it) and look less at the why, of rural localism and more at the ways it might happen and how it might work.   We delve into the ways humanity has organised in the past (with deep passing references to Graeber and Wengrow's brilliant book, The Dawn of Everything') and how we might self-organise in the future.  We look at the future of energy, at our conceptions of prosperity, the ways small farms can feed the world - and the absolute insanity of the 'precision fermentation' model of feeding eight billion people while enabling them to flourish free of corporate capture. Chris's blog https://smallfarmfuture.org.uk/Chris's book https://uk.bookshop.org/books/a-small-farm-future-making-the-case-for-a-society-built-around-local-economies-self-provisioning-agricultural-diversity-and-a/9781603589024Chris's response to Monbiot's Regenesis https://smallfarmfuture.org.uk/?p=1978Article on The Land updating the book https://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/articles/commons-and-households-small-farm-futureChris on Twitter https://twitter.com/csmajeGraeber and Wengrow - The Dawn of Everything https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-dawn-of-everything-a-new-history-of-humanity/9780141991061Simon Michaux https://www.simonmichaux.com/Rebecca Solnit - A Paradise Built in Hell http://www.rebeccasolnit.net/book/a-paradise-built-in-hell/What your food Qte https://uk.bookshop.org/books/what-your-food-ate-how-to-heal-our-land-and-reclaim-our-health/9781324004530The Agricultural Dilemma https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-agricultural-dilemma-how-not-to-feed-the-world/9781032260457

Jane and Chris (copyrightliteracy.org) speak to science fiction author, journalist, digital rights activist and copyright legend Cory Doctorow. We hear about his introduction to the copyright debates, his conversion to openness, the problems with the modern copyright regime and his latest book 'Chokepoint Capitalism' written with Rebecca Giblin. We also get his response to a song commemorating our conversation which appears to be by Kraftwerk. Here are links to the things Cory mentions in the podcast: Cory on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow Cory's blog https://pluralistic.net/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/ Cult of the Dead Cow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Dead_Cow Walled Culture podcast with Cory Doctorow (Part 1) - https://walledculture.org/interview-cory-doctorow-part-1-newspapers-big-tech-link-tax-drm-and-right-to-repair/ Part 2 https://walledculture.org/interview-cory-doctorow-part-2-new-publishing-models-for-creators-amazon-as-a-frenemy-and-the-internet-archive-court-case/ The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_of_Everything Chokepoint Capitalism - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710957/chokepoint-capitalism-by-cory-doctorow-and-rebecca-giblin/ Pixsy and copyright trolling https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252488167/Automated-image-recognition-How-using-free-photos-on-the-internet-can-lead-to-lawsuits-and-fines Cory's open letter to Pixsy CEO https://doctorow.medium.com/an-open-letter-to-pixsy-ceo-kain-jones-who-keeps-sending-me-legal-threats-5dfc54558f2c Cory's favourite cake https://www.wholesomeyum.com/recipes/low-carb-keto-sugar-free-carrot-cake-recipe/ Glossary: Orthogonal https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/orthogonal Barratry https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barratry

Mikä meitä vaivaa? vieraili Aikuisissa ja nyt seuraa paljastuksia! Veikka kertoo, miten käteen jäi kokemus henkilökohtaisesta epäonnistumisesta ja nykytyön pirstaleisuudesta. Pontuksen kuulumiset liittyvät “vasemmistohallituksen” aktiivimalliin, jonka kourissa tekee mieli seivästää kaikki vasemmistopuolueet. Onneksi löytyy myös asioita, joita voimme tehdä tilanteen helpottamiseksi. Asiat muuttuvat Pontuksen kokemuksen mukaan oudoiksi, kun ne päästää maailmaan: työstäkieltäytymisestä tulee “pötköttelyä”, luksuskommunismista tulee teknoutopismia ja luokkateoriasta “keskiluokkaisen maun” somekritiikkiä. Taustalla hyrrää suuri kaappauskoneisto, joka muovaa kollektiiviset kamppailut yksilötason natinaksi tai konsensuslätinäksi. Veikka vaivoittelee nykyaktivistien suhdetta valtion instituutioihin. Onko tärkeää, että ministeriössä pidetään Elokapinaa “hyvänä jätkänä”, jota ei sekoiteta “huligaaneihin”? Onko ilmastoliikkeen tavoitteena säilyttää valtio “vihreänä” versiona? Suosituksissa mm. miesvihaa ja valtakirjoja. Jaksossa mainittuja asioita: Mikä meitä vaivaa? synttäriliven podcast-jakso: https://www.patreon.com/posts/kuuntele-podcast-72527480 Adile Sevimli: Kansalainen, virkamies https://ylioppilaslehti.fi/2022/09/kansalainen-virkamies/ Miesvihaaja-kuunnelma https://areena.yle.fi/podcastit/1-63134979 Brunila et al.: Terapeuttinen valta https://vastapaino.fi/sivu/tuote/terapeuttinen-valta/3856983 Ylönen et al.:Viestintätoimistojen valta https://vastapaino.fi/sivu/tuote/viestintatoimistojen-valta/4191886 Wengrow & Graeber: Alussa oli… https://www.teos.fi/Alussa+oli

Title by Craig Bothwell With special guest Martine Wengrow. See her at Melbourne Fringe in "The Very Model Of A Modern Major Musical" HERE 06-20 October at Trades Hall An age old opera about the follies of stealing handbags and stealing hearts. Will all be forgiven when crimes are confessed? Find out in song! Song List: "We're the Finest Fashion Store", "The Rich Get Richer," "Close the Door," "Surely You Can Find Before Dawn," "That's Sounds Like Love," "When You See the Sunrise," "Could This Be Love?/It's Definitely Love" Cast: Morgan Phillips, Alexia Brinsley, Teresa Ewan and special guest Martine Wendrow on keys Teched by Emmet Nichols Edited by Morgan Phillips

Hello Interactors,I was interviewed!Big thanks to my friend and former Wavefront colleague, Mark Sylvester, who is now the Curator, Host, and Executive Producer at TEDx Santa Barbara.Check it out!https://tedxsantabarbara.com/.../brad-weed-we-need.../The unedited version that was streamed live is here on FB:https://fb.watch/fz9nyudo5r/Last week I left off Part I introducing a new science proposed by two scientists affiliated with my favorite multidisciplinary institution, and leader in studying complexity adaptive systems, The Santa Fe Institute. Today I draw from their paper published in August that includes links to a recent book that has shook the scientific academy. Science is adapting to a new world, a new climate, and new future. This proposed new scientific field aims to accelerate that adaptation. As interactors, you're special individuals self-selected to be a part of an evolutionary journey. You're also members of an attentive community so I welcome your participation.Please leave your comments below or email me directly.Now let's go…EVOLVING FAST AND SLOW“What until now has passed for ‘civilization' might in fact be nothing more than a gendered appropriation – by men, etching their claims in stone – of some earlier system of knowledge that had women at its centre.”These are the words of David Graeber and David Wengrow from their recent epic myth-busting book, The Dawn of Everything: a New History of Humanity. They paint a picture of human history that debunks many assumptions underlying the contributions of theoretical ‘great men' that dominate recollections of history, scientific discovery, and human evolution. But two great women stepped forward in August to offer a new center for systems of knowledge that complements Graeber and Wengrow's theories.Recent technological and collaborative advances in anthropology, archeology, ecology, geography, and related disciplines are sketching new patterns of interactions of people and place. Complex webs of far-flung and slow growing networks of social interactions, spanning large swaths of the globe over millennia, are coming into focus.Graeber and Wengrow claim “the world of hunter-gatherers as it existed before the coming of agriculture was one of bold social experiments, resembling a carnival parade of political forms.” This interpretation offers a radical counter to existing “drab abstractions of evolutionary theory.” Contrary to popular belief, they offer that“Agriculture, in turn, did not mean the inception of private property, nor did it mark an irreversible step towards inequality. In fact, many of the first farming communities were relatively free of ranks and hierarchies. And far from setting class differences in stone, a surprising number of the world's earliest cities were organized on robustly egalitarian lines, with no need for authoritarian rulers, ambitious warrior-politicians, or even bossy administrators.”Graeber and Wengrow's analysis offer an alternative understanding of the nearly 300,000 years of homo sapiens' existence. And Stefani Crabtree and Jennifer Dunne, both affiliated with the Santa Fe Institute, wrote a recent opinion piece that builds on their position. “Towards a science of archeaoecology”, published in the journal, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, calls for integrating elements of archeology and ecology under the term archeaoecology to further understand these pasts.By sharing approaches and data of related fields they hope to form a more complete picture of the unfolding of humanity and ecosystems so that both may continue to unfold into the future. They hope to intertwine two interrelated trends that emerged over the last 60,000 years of humanity. Some findings of which, were also highlighted by Graeber and Wengrow. These two trends are:The slow evident far-flung dispersal of homo sapiens across regions and around the globe.The increasingly rapid development of tools and technologies that enabled it.Together these contributed to the gradual and pervasive spread of complex social networks fueled by the interaction of people and place – and other animal species. However, as Crabtree and Dunne remind us, “As humans spread to new places and their populations grew…their impacts on ecosystems grew commensurately.”ARTIFACTS, ECOFACTS, AND SCALING MATHThe subfield of archeology that studies these impacts is environmental archeology. While much of this research focuses on a reconstruction of past climates, it doesn't always consider the larger ecological context. But the combined fields of paleontology (the study of fossilized plants and animals) and ecology does, under the name of paleoecology. However, it misses human elements of archeology just as environmental archeology sometimes ignores aspects of ecology.But new sensing technologies, increased computing power, advances in ecological modelling, and a growing corpus of digitized archeological records is providing bridges between these disciplines.  Now scientists can construct integrated understandings of how people interacted with place through deep time. Instead of fragments of artifacts, ecofacts, and trash deposits uncovered through disparate stages of time amidst localized climatic conditions, a more thorough and dynamic representation emerges.How do the interactions of people and place impact ecosystems and cultures and in turn influence their respective evolutions? It's questions like this that led Crabtree and Dunne to call on earth and human researchers to “confront pressing questions about the sustainability of current and future coupled natural-human systems” under the banner of archeoecology.It was archaeologists and paleoecologists who first coined this term. It described scientists or studies that relied on varieties of data, like geological morphology or climatology, to form interpretations of the archeological past. But they weren't intent on necessarily forming a systematic understanding of historic dynamic interactions of natural-human systems. Moreover, they weren't, as Crabtree and Dunne propose, providing an “intellectual home” for a new integrative science bridging these three disciplines:Archaeology: the study of past societies by reconstructing physical non-biological environments.Palaeoecology: the reconstruction of past ecosystems based on fossil remains but often excluding humans.Ecology: considerations of the living and nonliving interactions among organisms, mostly non-human, in existing ecosystems.The new home they suggest is filled with a growing assortment of tools and technologies which can be shared among them. They range in scale from the microscopic analysis of plants, animals, and tree rings to vast ecological and social networks through the distribution of species amidst cascading patterns of extinction. Computer models can represent everything from cellular structures that mimic behavior of biology to modelling individual and group behaviors based on quantitative data found across a range of space and time. In May I wrote about how this kind of modeling, led by another Santa Fe affiliate, Scott Ortman, uncovered new findings regarding the Scaling of Hunter-Gatherer Camp Size and Human Sociality in my Interplace essay called City Maps and Scaling Math.This array of interdependent tools conspires to generate the Crabtree and Dunne definition of archeocecology:“The branch of science that employs archaeological, ecological, and environmental records to reconstruct past complex ecosystems including human roles and impacts, leveraging advances in ecological analysis, modeling, and theory for studying the earth's human past.”NATURE OR NURTUREThe aim of this new science is to reconstruct interdependent networks of human mediated systems that mutually depend on each other for survival. This offers clues, for example, into just how many plants and animals may have migrated and propagated on their own through earth's natural systems versus being transported and nurtured by highly mobile, creative humans amidst networks of seemingly egalitarian bands. Crabtree and Dunne offer one such example from Cyprus where scientists used archeoecological approaches to discover how that area's current ecosystem came to be.Using species distribution models and food webs the research showed how settlers in the later part of the Stone Age (Neolithic period) “brought with them several nondomesticated animals and plants, including fox (Vulpes vulpes indutus), deer (Dama dama), pistachios (Pistacia vera), flax (Linum sp.), and figs (Ficus carica), to alter the Cyprian ecosystem to meet their needs. These were supplemented with domestic einkorn [early forms of wheat] (Triticum monococcum) and barley (Hordeum vulgare), as well as domesticated pigs (Sus scrofa), sheep (Ovis sp.), goat (Capra sp.), and cattle (Bos sp.).”The coincidental dating of these human settlers, plants, and animals suggests not only the introduction of new species to the area, but the intention to create a niche ecosystem on which they could survive. Elements of that Neolithic ecosystem are alive in Cyprus to this day. Crabtree's own research into the ecological impacts of the removal of Aboriginal populations in Australia corroborates these theories.Her work highlights the need to marry the high-tech scientific approaches of archeoecology with Traditional Ecological Knowledge…otherwise known as Indigenous Knowledge or Indigenous Science. As I wrote last week in Part I, stitching together past and present Western science requires collaborations with Indigenous people, their knowledge, culture, and traditions. To strategize the survival of the natural world, of which we humans are linked – amidst a changing and increasingly volatile climate – requires honoring, respecting, and collaborating with people and cultures as varied and complex as the ecosystems on which we coexist.Crabtree and Dunne show how archeoecology can reveal “how humans altered, and were shaped by, ecosystems across deep time.” By collaborating, sharing, and synthesizing diverse bodies of knowledge across artificial academic and cultural boundaries and beliefs we can “explore implications for the future sustainability of anthropogenically modified landscapes.” This is particularly imperative “given scenarios such as changing climate, land-use intensification, and species extinctions.”This treatise on archeoecology by Crabtree and Dunne offers a set of tools necessary to present “a new history of humankind.” Much like Graeber and Wengrow set out to do, it also encourages “a new science of history, one that restores our ancestors to their full humanity.”Collaborative science, like collaborative music and sports, spawns unexpected, serendipitous discovery through systems of human tension, tolerance, intimacy, and cumulative joy and sorrow, setbacks, and steps forward. This is the nature of unbridled egalitarian play observed among young people unaltered by prejudice, politics, fright, and might. It's felt in us all through lifetime acts of negotiation and negation, rejoice and reproach, exaltation and anguish, or creation and destruction. It is the nature of humankind. And it is, like our ecosystems, in constant mutualistic flux.As is the work of Crabtree, Dunne, Graeber (RIP), Wengrow, and others like them. But as they have already shown, “The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful possibilities, than we tend to assume.” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit interplace.io

Israelilaisen Yuval Noah Hararin Homo Sapiensin maailman syntyjä selittävä hittitietokirja Sapiens sai haastajan! Amerikkalaisen antropologi David Graeberin (1961-2020) ja brittiarkeologi David Wengrow'n tietokirja Alussa oli… : ihmiskunnan uusi historia (The Dawn of Everything, suom. Anna Tuomikoski) haastaa meille tutun kertomuksen ihmisen kehityksestä savanneilta tähän päivään. Omistamista ja orjuutta olikin jo ennen maanviljelyä, eikä senkään yksinoikeutettu lähtökoti ole Lähi-Idässä, väittää uusi teos. Wengrow ja Graeber kirjoittavat myös, että Pohjois-Amerikan alkuperäiskansojen filosofia antoi tärkeän kimmokkeen Euroopan valistusaatteelle. Lähetyksessä kuullaan Alussa oli -tietokirjan toisen kirjoittajan David Wengrow'n haastattelu. Studiossa ovat keskustelemassa Muinaisen Lähi-idän tutkimuksen dosentti Joanna Töyräänvuori Helsingin Yliopistosta ja taidehistorian professori Anita Seppä. Lähetyksessä kuullaan myös Etelä-Amerikan alkuperäiskansoihin perehtynyttä Turun yliopiston uskontotieteen määräaikaista professoria, dosentti Minna Opasta. Lähetyksen juontaa Pauliina Grym.

Title by Emily Shepherd With special guest, Martine Wengrow. Get tickets to her show "The Very Model Of A Modern Major Musical" HERE 06-20 October at Trades Hall Ten years after graduating, new father Troy is insecure about peaking in high school. Now, at the reunion, Gabriella's old flame and maths nerd, Garmont, threatens to steal Troy's wife away from him. Meanwhile, Sharpe is finding the start of something new. Song List: "Just Cool Enough for School", "The Arts are No Way to Raise the Funds", "Sexy, French and Mathematical", "The Start of Another Something New", "Ryan's Time to Shine (Cut From Show)", "We're Slapping Up Against Each Other", "We're Not In This Together Anymore", Cast: Emmet Nichols, Alexia Brinsley, Teresa Ewan and special guest Martine Wengrow on keys. Teched and Edited by Morgan Phillips

At long last, we dive into the last chapter of The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow. We reflect on this odyssey of a book, pulling out its major themes, discussing the baseline freedoms that are essential for society, considering the nihilistic contradictions inherent to the Enlightenment view of humanity, looking back on how we got stuck in static social relations and dead end political developments, plus more! Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills Grab fresh new TMK gear: bonfire.com/store/this-machine-kills-podcast/ Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl)

Lindsay Politi is Head of Inflation Strategies at  One River Asset Management. Lindsay began her career at Wellington Management in Boston where she was head of Global Inflation-linked Investments. In that role she was one of the top TIPS managers by assets, managing over $10 billion in dedicated assets, with a top quintile track record for excess in her peer group. She then joined Tudor Investment Corporation in Greenwich as a discretionary macro investor, translating her inflation strategy onto a macro hedge fund platform. She then joined One River Asset Management in 2018. In this podcast we discuss: 1) The short-, medium- and long-term drivers of inflation. 2) Why near-term inflation could still rise even with growing recession fears. 3) Why changes in interest rates could matter more than the levels of interest rates. 4) How housing affects inflation. 5) Are there parallels to the 1970s? 6) Why inflation volatility matters. 7) Will the Fed cut rates in 2023? 8) Why the TIPs market may not give an accurate measure of long-term inflation. 9) The income potential of TIPs bonds. 10) The case of low inflation in Japan. 11) Books mentioned: Slouching Toward Utopia (DeLong), The Dawn of Everything (Graeber, Wengrow), Amusing Ourselves to Death (Postman).

This is part 2 of a two-part conversation about encountering aspects of ourselves we don't like or understand, gossip, ruining dinner parties, and parental interventions.Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net or @midlifingpod on Instagram. Related links (and necessary corrections):Quote about gossip:Graeber and Wengrow describe "extremely human activities" like "gossiping, arguing, playing games, dancing or travelling for pleasure." (from Dawn of Everything, Chapter 4).---The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I.T: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29311691@N05/8571921679 (CC BY 2.0)Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net. ---The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I.T: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29311691@N05/8571921679 (CC BY 2.0)

We dive back into chapter 11 – Full Circle – of The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow. We revisit the Indigenous critique of how human civilization develops and where the political values underlying modern human societies originate. First outlined in the beginning of the book, we now further flesh out the Indigenous critique and drive home its key conclusions. Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills Grab fresh new TMK gear: bonfire.com/store/this-machine-kills-podcast/ Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl)

Welcome back to my continuing coverage of the Graeber and Wengrow book https://bookshop.org/a/82618/9780374157357 (The Dawn of Everything). This week, is the conclusion of my conversation with four members of the Black Trowel Collective, a network of anarchist archeologists: James Birmingham, https://lewisborck.wordpress.com/ (Lewis Borck), https://sydney.academia.edu/JamesFlexner (James Flexner), and https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/aris-politopoulos (Aris Politopoulos). This conversation covers next steps: in the wake of The Dawn of Everything and work done by the Black Trowel Collective, what comes next in this ongoing re-evaluation of humanity's origins? To hear the first part of the conversation, click here: www.everydayanarchism.com/anarchistarchaeologists To support underrepresented archaeologists financially, check out Black Trowel's revolutionary grant program: https://blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/ (Black Trowel Microgrants).

I was delighted to meet David Wengrow at the Idler Festival. His coauthor, David Graeber, was a great friend of the Idler.David Wengrow and I spoke about their revolutionary, fascinating and inspiring book, The Dawn of Everything. It challenges the concensus history and prehistory of humanity, as found in writers such as Steven Pinker and Noah Yuval Harari.As one questioner from the audience stressed, this is so important for freeing ourselves from their deterministic anticipations of the future.But I have critiques of the new story as well. David Wengrow's responses to them were illuminating, I felt, and I hope my thoughts were interesting to him.My fuller discussion of the book itself can also be found on this podcast.

Welcome back to my continuing coverage of the Graeber and Wengrow book https://bookshop.org/a/82618/9780374157357 (The Dawn of Everything). This week, I'm joined by four members of the Black Trowel Collective, a network of anarchist archeologists: James Birmingham, https://lewisborck.wordpress.com/ (Lewis Borck), https://sydney.academia.edu/JamesFlexner (James Flexner), and https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/aris-politopoulos (Aris Politopoulos). This is part one of our roundtable discussion, covering first impressions of the book and its place in recent work on archaeology. To support underrepresented archaeologists financially, check out Black Trowel's revolutionary grant program: https://blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/ (Black Trowel Microgrants). And for more from Aris Politopoulos, check out our https://www.everydayanarchism.com/episode-35/ (episode on videogames).

We dive back into chapter 10 – Why the State Has No Origin – of The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow. And finish up our discussion of how different forms of social power based on violence/sovereignty, information/administration, charisma/heroic politcs all come together in different combinations at different places and points, with some features exaggerated over others, to produce radically different forms of states throughout human history. Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills Grab fresh new TMK gear: bonfire.com/store/this-machine-kills-podcast/ Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl)

We dive into chapter 10 – Why the State Has No Origin – of The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow. This is a massive chapter that gets deep into analyzing the features of social power and development of state institutions. We see how control of violence, control of information, and control of charisma all come together in different combinations at different places and points, with some features exaggerated over others, to produce radically different forms of states throughout human history. To really do this chapter justice, we had to break it into two parts. The second part will drop next week. Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills Grab fresh new TMK gear: bonfire.com/store/this-machine-kills-podcast/ Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl)

We dive into chapter 9 – Hiding in Plain Sight – of The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow. We discuss the utopian experiment of Teotihuacan in Mesoamerica 2000 years ago: a city that revolted against authoritarian rule and instituted a socialist system, complete with universal housing and democratic governance, which lasted for hundreds of years. Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills Grab fresh new TMK gear: bonfire.com/store/this-machine-kills-podcast/ Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl)

We dive into chapter 8 – Imaginary Cities – of The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow. We talk about the origins of cities and contradict the commonly held belief that proto-state governance—e.g. centralized, hierarchical administration—developed in tandem with urban society. Instead, early cities existed for hundreds of years, organized by bottom-up self-governance, before the palaces and temples became the centers of urban power. Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills Grab fresh new TMK gear: bonfire.com/store/this-machine-kills-podcast/ Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl)

In unserer heutigen Folge sprechen wir über das Thema Nomadismus. Zu Gast ist Sina Steglich, die sich in ihrem neuen Projekt mit dem Thema Nomadismus als Reflexionsfigur der Moderne oder der Postmoderne beschäftigt. Wir sprechen über die Frage was Nomadismus überhaupt ist, wie er sich von der Migration abgrenzt, wie er wahrgenommen wird von außenstehenden und wie man durch Nomadismus die Moderne verstehen kann. Außerdem reden wir darüber, warum interdisziplinäre Forschung so wichtig ist und was der mobility turn ist. Zum Schluss verrät Sina uns noch welches Buch zu welchem Bier für sie am besten zusammenpasst. Quellen & Literatur Bösch, Frank: Zeitenwende 1979. Als die Welt von heute begann. C.H. Beck, 2019. Di Cesare, Donatella: Philosophie der Migration. Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2021. Graeber, David & Wengrow, David: Anfänge: Eine neue Geschichte der Menschheit. Klett-Cotta Verlag, 2022. Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich: 1926. Ein Jahr am Rand der Zeit. Suhrkamp, 2003. Hansen, Valerie: Das Jahr 1000. Als die Globalisierung begann. C.H. Beck, 2021. Illies, Florian: 1913: Der Sommer des Jahrhunderts. S. Fischer, 2012. Liebisch-Gümüş, Carolin: Mobilität/en und Mobilitätsgeschichte. Version: 1.0, in: Docupedia-Zeitgeschichte, 22.03.2022 http://docupedia.de/zg/Liebisch_Guemues_mobilitaet_v1_de_2022 Nomaden. Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 2015: https://www.bpb.de/shop/zeitschriften/apuz/208259/nomaden/ Sarrasin, Philipp: 1977. Eine Geschichte der Gegenwart. Suhrkamp, 2021. Siegelberg, Mira: Statelessness. Harvard University Press, 2020. Steglich, Sina: Zeitort Archiv: Etablierung und Vermittlung geschichtlicher Zeitlichkeit im 19. Jahrhundert. Campus Verlag, 2020. Toynbee, Arnold J.: A Study of History. 1934–1961. Trawny, Peter (Hrsg.): Martin Heidegger: Überlegungen II–VI (Schwarze Hefte 1931–1938). Gesamtausgabe Band 94. Frankfurt am Main, 2014. von Suffrin, Dana: Otto. Kiwi-Verlag, 2019.

Myten om urtillståndet utgör grunden för politiska ideologier och uppfattningar om hur samhället bör organiseras. Men så enkelspåriga var aldrig de äldre samhällena, berättar Tormod Otter Johansen. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna.Vi känner alla till den här historien: En tidig människa reser sig från sin hukade ställning och för varje uträtning av ryggen liknar hon oss allt mer. Hon lär sig hantera vapen, börjar bära kläder och använda jordbruksredskap. Under 200 000 år var vi jägare och samlare, kringströvande i små grupper över de stora kontinenterna av orörd vildmark. Först när vi blev bofasta samlades vi i större grupper och blev jordbrukare. Vi byggde städer, skapade stater och lät oss styras av en elit.Men stämmer den historien verkligen? I sitt mastodontverk "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" ifrågasätter antropologen David Graeber och arkeologen David Wengrow denna välbekanta bild. Både idén om människans ursprungliga tillstånd och den etablerade berättelsen om vad som hände sedan förkastas. De börjar i en frontalattack mot de två alltigenom dominerande grundberättelserna om människans ursprung. De som läst Jean Jacques Rousseau och övertygats om att människan var en ädel vilde som levde i ett oskyldigt tillstånd av primitiv kommunism får svar på tal. Det arkeologiska materialet stödjer inte längre antagandet att små isolerade grupper varit normen sen homo sapiens begynnelse. Men lika hård kritik får de som tolkat Thomas Hobbes tankeexperiment om människans naturtillstånd som "ensamt, fattigt, smutsigt, djuriskt och kort" som en faktiskt historisk beskrivning. Vår förhistoria var knappast ett sorgligt brutalt allas-krig-mot-alla.Oavsett om den presenteras som fredlig eller krigisk så är den naiva idén om urtillståndet, satt som kontrast mot vår samtid, grunden för en berättelse om utveckling. Vi har lämnat det primitiva och är i ständig rörelse mot en alltmer komplex civilisation.Den berättelse Graeber och Wengrow ger oss är mycket rikare, mer fascinerande och i slutändan mer hoppfull än den stela utvecklingsstege vi alla vant oss vid. Vi kan inte sortera in alla mänskliga samhällen efter varandra i något tydligt schema. Olika samhällens egenskaper som storlek, komplexitet, ekonomi och politiska system hänger inte ihop på det sättet. Utvecklingen har inte ibland stannat av eller varit hackig, den har snarare ständigt böljat fram och tillbaka bland massvis av olika kombinationer.Förvisso har vi många gånger gått från att vara jägare och samlare till jordbrukare. Men vi har också återkommande gett upp jordbruket och istället blivit nomadiserande jägare eller herdar. Dessa val har inte bara berott på tvingande omständigheter som klimat och geografi, eftersom vi valt att vara just jägare och samlare, eller herdar, trots att vi mycket väl visste hur man odlade och dessutom bosatte oss på de bördigaste jordarna.Men skillnaderna mellan folkgrupper har inte bara handlat om hur vi tillfredställt vårt behov av att skaffa mat. Det handlar också om hur vi organiserat oss och rent fysiskt levt tillsammans. Monumentala arkeologiska lämningar som Stonehenge, stenarkitekturen i Göbekli Tepe, eller de minoiska palatsen på Kreta är ibland som vi föreställer oss byggda av klassamhällen där vi var kungar, undersåtar och slavar. Men minst lika ofta var dessa imponerande städer jämlika samhällen utan en infrastruktur av hov, befästningar och spannmålslager. Vissa städer, med enorma jordverk eller hundratals byggnader av sten som krävt oräkneliga timmar av arbete, har byggts av människor som inte ens var bofasta. Folkgrupper från stora områden samlades på dessa imponerande platser några veckor om året för ceremonier och handel.Inte ens när man granskar människors sista viloplats verkar den gamla berättelsen hålla. Under hela den moderna eran har vi trott oss finna belägg för starka klasskillnader i gravar, men rika gravfynd återfinns i många olika samhällen. Ibland har de välfyllda gravarna varit reserverade för adel och präster, men i andra fall har vi gett ett överflöd av gravgåvor till personer där inget tyder på att de tillhörde någon elit.Historien visar till och med hur samhällen inte ens behöver vara begränsade till en social ordning. Det sydamerikanska Nambikwarafolket i nuvarande Brasilien levde på 1940-talet på två fundamentalt olika sätt under olika delar av året. Under den torra årstiden levde man i små grupper som styrdes av hövdingar med rätt att befalla andra. Under regnsäsongen, när man samlades i större grupper och odlade, försvann deras makt och ingen accepterade order från någon. Andra samhällen, som på Bali, har haft strikta hierarkier i den politiska och religiösa sfären. Men samtidigt har man demokratiskt organiserat det komplexa samordnade jordbruket.Den nya berättelsens utgångspunkt blir alltså, för det första, att det inte finns något ursprungligt mänskligt samhälle. För det andra att det inte heller har funnits någon utvecklingsstege från det primitiva till det komplexa. Tvärtom handlar vår gemensamma berättelse om otrolig variation. Våra förfäder har med samma intelligens och uppfinningsrikedom som vår prövat, valt och avfärdat samhälleliga möjligheter i ett ständigt växelspel.Idag verkar vi tvärtom ha fastnat, både i praktiken och i vår föreställningsförmåga. Den enda legitima, ja, kanske den enda tänkbara formen för mänsklig organisering på stor skala är någon kombination av stat och marknad. Stater med våldsmonopol i kombination med global marknadsekonomi är vår förment eviga sociala ordning. Alla politiska konflikter handlar om hur vi skall använda samhällets olika delar så som de redan ser ut.Den avgörande sensmoralen i den nya berättelsen om mänsklighetens historia är att våra sociala strukturer inte alls är ofrånkomliga. Den enorma rikedomen i historien och förhistorien visar möjligheter, inte bundenhet. Vi må ha fastnat på en väg, men inget säger att vi måste fortsätta på den. Vi kan alltid skapa något nytt, en värld och nya livsformer som är annorlunda, till och med bortom vad vi nu kan föreställa oss.Framtiden är djupare än historien, och möjligheterna större än vi anar.Tormod Otter Johansen, jurist

We dive into chapter 7 – Ecology of Freedom – of The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow. In which we discuss the tragedy of the commons, ecological imperialism, flirtations with farming, domestication of plants and animals, dangers of teleological reasoning, and much more. Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills Grab fresh new TMK gear: bonfire.com/store/this-machine-kills-podcast/ Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl)

Bari was an op-ed editor at the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times before leaving to create her own op-ed page on Substack, “Common Sense.” She’s also the author of How to Fight Anti-Semitism, and for some reason one of the most reviled figures on Left Twitter, despite being one of the most gifted editors of her generation. We talk groomers and culture war desperation and the amnesia of recent triumphs.This was a joint podcast, and you’ll be able to hear a somewhat longer version of the discussion next week on Bari’s pod, “Honestly.” You can listen to our version right away in the audio player embedded above, or right below it you can click “Listen in podcast app,” which will connect you to the Dishcast feed. For two clips — on wokeness enabling the far right, and on the agonizing choice when it comes to gender theory in schools — head over to our YouTube page. New transcript just dropped: my conversation with John McWhorter, which is still our most downloaded episode on the Dishcast. We get into his latest book, Woke Racism, and how the successor ideology hurts black kids:First up in Dishcast feedback this week, a “brief note of appreciation from a longtime reader and subscriber”:I’ve been following the Dish since the inception of the blogosphere, and your Substack is a welcome addition to my intellectual life, especially the podcasts, which seem to get better and better. The last two — with Nicholas Christakis and Jonathan Haidt — have been especially wonderful. (I’ve also benefited considerably from Johann Hari’s excellent new book, which has largely taken me off social media). There are episodes that have annoyed me (e.g. the one with Anne Applebaum), but I listen because I don’t want to be part of an echo chamber.Speaking of the Haidt pod, a listener dug up a gem from my favorite philosopher:I appreciated the episode and Haidt’s recent piece in the Atlantic that invokes the Tower of Babel. The essay you mentioned by Oakeshott on Babel was not, as you worried, easily found, but it’s nonetheless attached:The Haidt episode “sparked many new thoughts” from this listener:The word “proportion” was mentioned in passing, but I think that word is crucial to understanding the real dysfunction wrought by social media. We have lost all sense of proportion in this post-Babel world. Whether it’s the trans debate — a conversation that really only affects one percent of the population — or CRT in schools, it’s difficult to talk about these heated culture-war topics while holding them in proportion to the real problems facing our society. The power (or fear) of going viral on Twitter makes proportion impossible, which is one of the reasons why journalism is in such a bad place. Because nuance and context are hard, journalists and media figures — particularly cable news anchors — appear to be simply unequipped to deliver information in a way that holds these things in balance. Consider the Hunter laptop story. Why was this story “buried” by the media? Was it a conspiracy in which corporate elite journalists just didn’t want Hunter Biden to look bad? Or, more likely, do they intuitively understand that in the post-Babel world, they don’t have the skills and tools to talk about this story, which may not have been the biggest of deals but also didn’t look great in the lead up to a pivotal election? They didn’t want “But her emails” 2.0 — another viral story that had no sense of proportion. Most people couldn’t even tell you what, exactly, was corrupt about Clinton’s emails; they just knew they existed because that’s all anyone talked about, and since it was all anyone was talking about, it must be bad, bad, bad! The media simply doesn’t know how to function from a place of nuance; it can’t communicate information in a way that holds that information in proportion to its relevance, context, and importance. Is this the fault of social media and viral dynamics? Is it just really bad journalism? Or do journalists have such a low opinion of the polity that they believe most people won’t be bothered to try to understand complicated stories? Thank god for podcasts!This next listener also tackles Twitter:I think it is worth pointing out, as you have, that Twitter is at best 80 million US users (per Newsweek / Statista in 2021) whereas Twitter reported 38 million monetize-able daily active usage in the US in 2021. This number is probably closer to actual usage to account for dormant / duplicate accounts. Normal Americans, outside of radicals (which aren’t normal), don’t engage in the elite masturbatory thing that is Twitter. I am in a demo that should use it but have never had an account, because I view it as a complete and utter waste of time. The US Census has the 2021 population at 330 million with 22% under 18 (call it 73 million). I assume some portion of those are on Twitter, but they can’t vote. At the low end, that leaves 180 million voting Americans not on Twitter. So I think it’s worth reiterating that Twitter is not real life (or a majority of voters). If you were to break it down by ideological lines, I am sure it is further skewed in one direction, you needn't guess which. Today’s “journalists” investigative efforts often seem to largely rely on copy pasting tweets as the “public reaction” — it is no wonder why they are out of touch. Furthermore, as Jesse reminded us during this week’s freakout over Elon Musk buying Twitter, “Twitter Is Not America”:In the United States, Twitter users are statistically younger, wealthier, and more politically liberal than the general population. They are also substantially better educated, according to Pew: 42 percent of sampled users had a college degree, versus 31 percent for U.S. adults broadly. Forty-one percent reported an income of more than $75,000, too, another large difference from the country as a whole. They were far more likely (60 percent) to be Democrats or lean Democratic than to be Republicans or lean Republican (35 percent).This next listener dissents over the Haidt convo:I try not to be a scold, but sometimes the temptation is too great. Early in your talk you talked about how you didn’t understand young kids these days — why they are killing themselves at a high rate, since everything for them is so much better than it was in the old days. It sounds just like all of us old guys not getting youngsters. Haidt did talk about how he learned to approach unfamiliar cultures like an anthropologist — a good place to start for us old folks. While I agree with you about the proliferation of gender types, it was not so long ago that homosexuality raised the same kinds of questions that you ask, and it was looked at the same way. Some people questioned the reality of such a thing, or saw it as a simple choice that perverse people made, or as a psychiatric illness that required treatment, and of course as a crime. I don’t think you intend to imply any of those things, but you do seem to veer in that direction. How people’s identity is created is still an open question — and someday we may know more. That said, I agree with you that medical interventions for children is very very premature and should not be happening. Let people grow up first. You seem to imply that biology supports a simple dichotomy, but sexual expression is more complex than that. As for cultural/religious acceptance, Joseph Campbell, in The Hero Of A Thousand Faces, discusses some civilizations that saw gender as fluid and containing both male and female elements.One more thought: although Plato then, and others now, did raise questions about democracy, I fear that the Republican answer is to emulate the worst counter-examples, such as their current infatuation with Orbán’s near dictatorship. Prof. Haidt mentioned Karen Stenner’s work, The Authoritarian Dynamic, in which she reports that 20% of the population has an authoritarian personality type. She also talks about the conditions that stimulate it to express itself — fear and anxiety, the kind that is stirred up by demagogues and unscrupulous politicians, namely Trump. Stenner’s book also has suggestions on how to tamp down the fear. Maybe a conversation with her is in order.Thanks for the tip. My best response to my reader’s first point is probably at the beginning of my chat with Bari, where I try to make distinctions between the gay and trans movements, and why the conflicts are inevitable and intrinsic. As for fluid gender, I agree! I don’t believe in a gender binary, just a sex binary. In fact, one reason gender expression exists at all — and is comprehensible at all — is precisely its tension with a fixed, binary biological reality. But I also think this over-states the relevance of “gender identity” for the vast majority of humans. Most of us don’t get up every day thinking of how we are a man or a woman and where we fit on a spectrum — because we don’t really have many conflicts. This looms much larger for trans people for whom it is a daily challenge, and to a lesser extent for gay people whose affect contrasts with the stereotypes of their sex. But for most of us, our gender expression is simply our personality packaged in a binary form of biology. And this isn’t just on a scale of Barbie to G.I. Joe. And seeing it that way — as gender ideology does — strikes me as a regression, not a way forward.This next listener “loved the Haidt interview, except for one jarring bit”:You pronounced the Chinese as stupid for suddenly pursuing Zero Covid. Here’s a scary possibility: They know something you don’t know. Suppose the Chinese detected a Covid variant with a 20% death rate, rather than 1.5%. Gotta save face, gotta stamp it out. What we’re seeing is a reasonable consequence. Or it could be a variant immune to SinoVac. I’m not laughing at them, and, with difficulty, not yet condemning them. I’m worrying.Chill, baby, chill. The chances of a virus crossing from animals to animals to humans in the next decades of rapid climate change is very high. The chances of it wiping out humanity is not negligible. F**k with the planet the way we have, and the planet is at some point going to f**k you. I know this sounds fatalistic — but in my adult lifetime, I’ve contracted two new viruses, both of which have killed millions. This next listener worries about the political center in America regaining control:There was much to agree with in your Dishcast with Haidt about the effects of social media, particularly with regards to how it amplifies polarization. But this analysis feels a bit like blaming kerosene for a fire instead of the arsonist. The biggest share of responsibility for where we are today lies at the feet of the center-right, center-left, and the institutions that supported them. Free trade, the war on terrorism, the Iraq war, the financial crisis, and the extremely tepid recovery thereafter were all the brainchildren of the center and various elite institutions. They have been complete and utter disasters for most Americans. What is more, the outright refusal of many to take accountability for these disasters — indeed the doubling down and moralizing tone in Haidt’s defense of the center — only leads to greater resentment and polarization. If these are the people who are expected to lead us into brighter days, we are doomed.Point taken. Lastly, a listener looks ahead to our next episode:First I wish you a speedy recovery from Covid and your hip surgery. Please do rest sufficiently; I know a lot of people who neglected to do that and are now paying the price.I am a recent subscriber. After listening to a gazillion of your podcasts on Spotify, I realized it was the decent thing to do! Although I do not always agree with you (especially on the EU, which you seem to misunderstand), I want to thank you for your work and for broadening my horizons, i.e. about gay culture, which I ignorantly thought was synonymous with gay pride parades. And please continue to invite people you disagree with — it’s such an important message, even though, frankly, those episodes are not always the most interesting ones.Since you are talking to one of my intellectual heroes in your next episode, Francis Fukuyama, I was wondering if I could suggest one or two questions. His End of History and the Last Man is still widely misrepresented by people who either never read it or willingly distort it. Fukuyama is actually one of the very few people who foresaw the possibility of what we are going through now — in that very book. Yet his responses to these deeply ignorant and unfair criticisms are, in every interview of him I have ever read or heard, unfailingly courteous, measured and constructive. I am just wondering how he does it. I would have blown my top. Where does he get the energy?Although of course he’ll talk about his latest book, if I can make an additional suggestion, please get him to talk about Political Order, his magnum opus in two volumes, and how he responds to the very different views developed in Graeber and Wengrow’s Dawn of Everything. I look forward to hearing you again, when you feel better!Yes, he’s a model of reason and restraint. And thanks for the tips. We won’t have time to debate his many works, but I’ll do my best. Get full access to The Weekly Dish at andrewsullivan.substack.com/subscribe

We dive into chapter 6 – Gardens of Adonis – of The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow. Here we bust the myth of the “Agricultural Revolution” in two main senses. First, we bust the idea of agricultural development as a linear, deterministic, teleological transitional stage in human society. Second, we bust the idea of agriculture as a revolution that happened immediately, spread quickly, and never turned back. Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills Grab fresh new TMK gear: bonfire.com/store/this-machine-kills-podcast/ Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl)

We dive into chapter 5 – Many Seasons Ago – of The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow. Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills Grab fresh new TMK gear: bonfire.com/store/this-machine-kills-podcast/ Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl)

Elizabeth and John talk about fantasy's power of world-making with Edinburgh professor Anna Vaninskaya, author of William Morris and the Idea of Community: Romance, History and Propaganda, 1880-1914 ( 2010) and Fantasies of Time and Death: Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien ( 2020). Anna uncovers the melancholy sense of displacement and loss running through Tolkien, and links his notion of "subcreation" to an often concealed theological vision. Not allegory but "application" is praised as a way of reading fantasy. John asks about hopeful visions of the radical politics of fantasy (Le Guin, but also Graeber and Wengrow's recent work); Elizabeth stresses that fantasy's appeal is at once childish and childlike. E. Nesbit surfaces, as she tends to in RtB conversations. The question of film TV and other visual modes comes up: is textual fantasy on the way out? Mentioned in the Episode: David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything. In "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie" Ursula Le Guin perhaps surprisingly praises the otherworldly prose style of Anna's beloved E. R. Eddison, best known for The Worm Ouroboros (1922) J. R. R. Tolkien, "On Fairy Stories" E. Nesbit The Phoenix and the Carpet Lord Dunsany, King of Elfland's Daughter Ursula Le Guin The Books of Earthsea Recallable Books: Sylvia Townsend Warner, Kingdoms of Elfin (and read this lovely Ivan Kreilkamp article on her earlier strange great Lolly Willowes) Lloyd Alexander Chronicles of Prydain N. K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season Read transcript here Elizabeth Ferry is Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. Email: ferry@brandeis.edu. John Plotz is Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanities at Brandeis University and co-founder of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative. Email: plotz@brandeis.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elizabeth and John talk about fantasy's power of world-making with Edinburgh professor Anna Vaninskaya, author of William Morris and the Idea of Community: Romance, History and Propaganda, 1880-1914 ( 2010) and Fantasies of Time and Death: Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien ( 2020). Anna uncovers the melancholy sense of displacement and loss running through Tolkien, and links his notion of "subcreation" to an often concealed theological vision. Not allegory but "application" is praised as a way of reading fantasy. John asks about hopeful visions of the radical politics of fantasy (Le Guin, but also Graeber and Wengrow's recent work); Elizabeth stresses that fantasy's appeal is at once childish and childlike. E. Nesbit surfaces, as she tends to in RtB conversations. The question of film TV and other visual modes comes up: is textual fantasy on the way out? Mentioned in the Episode: David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything. In "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie" Ursula Le Guin perhaps surprisingly praises the otherworldly prose style of Anna's beloved E. R. Eddison, best known for The Worm Ouroboros (1922) J. R. R. Tolkien, "On Fairy Stories" E. Nesbit The Phoenix and the Carpet Lord Dunsany, King of Elfland's Daughter Ursula Le Guin The Books of Earthsea Recallable Books: Sylvia Townsend Warner, Kingdoms of Elfin (and read this lovely Ivan Kreilkamp article on her earlier strange great Lolly Willowes) Lloyd Alexander Chronicles of Prydain N. K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season Read transcript here Elizabeth Ferry is Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. Email: ferry@brandeis.edu. John Plotz is Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanities at Brandeis University and co-founder of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative. Email: plotz@brandeis.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

Elizabeth and John talk about fantasy's power of world-making with Edinburgh professor Anna Vaninskaya, author of William Morris and the Idea of Community: Romance, History and Propaganda, 1880-1914 ( 2010) and Fantasies of Time and Death: Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien ( 2020). Anna uncovers the melancholy sense of displacement and loss running through Tolkien, and links his notion of "subcreation" to an often concealed theological vision. Not allegory but "application" is praised as a way of reading fantasy. John asks about hopeful visions of the radical politics of fantasy (Le Guin, but also Graeber and Wengrow's recent work); Elizabeth stresses that fantasy's appeal is at once childish and childlike. E. Nesbit surfaces, as she tends to in RtB conversations. The question of film TV and other visual modes comes up: is textual fantasy on the way out? Mentioned in the Episode: David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything. In "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie" Ursula Le Guin perhaps surprisingly praises the otherworldly prose style of Anna's beloved E. R. Eddison, best known for The Worm Ouroboros (1922) J. R. R. Tolkien, "On Fairy Stories" E. Nesbit The Phoenix and the Carpet Lord Dunsany, King of Elfland's Daughter Ursula Le Guin The Books of Earthsea Recallable Books: Sylvia Townsend Warner, Kingdoms of Elfin (and read this lovely Ivan Kreilkamp article on her earlier strange great Lolly Willowes) Lloyd Alexander Chronicles of Prydain N. K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season Read transcript here Elizabeth Ferry is Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. Email: ferry@brandeis.edu. John Plotz is Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanities at Brandeis University and co-founder of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative. Email: plotz@brandeis.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Elizabeth and John talk about fantasy's power of world-making with Edinburgh professor Anna Vaninskaya, author of William Morris and the Idea of Community: Romance, History and Propaganda, 1880-1914 ( 2010) and Fantasies of Time and Death: Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien ( 2020). Anna uncovers the melancholy sense of displacement and loss running through Tolkien, and links his notion of "subcreation" to an often concealed theological vision. Not allegory but "application" is praised as a way of reading fantasy. John asks about hopeful visions of the radical politics of fantasy (Le Guin, but also Graeber and Wengrow's recent work); Elizabeth stresses that fantasy's appeal is at once childish and childlike. E. Nesbit surfaces, as she tends to in RtB conversations. The question of film TV and other visual modes comes up: is textual fantasy on the way out? Mentioned in the Episode: David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything. In "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie" Ursula Le Guin perhaps surprisingly praises the otherworldly prose style of Anna's beloved E. R. Eddison, best known for The Worm Ouroboros (1922) J. R. R. Tolkien, "On Fairy Stories" E. Nesbit The Phoenix and the Carpet Lord Dunsany, King of Elfland's Daughter Ursula Le Guin The Books of Earthsea Recallable Books: Sylvia Townsend Warner, Kingdoms of Elfin (and read this lovely Ivan Kreilkamp article on her earlier strange great Lolly Willowes) Lloyd Alexander Chronicles of Prydain N. K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season Read transcript here Elizabeth Ferry is Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. Email: ferry@brandeis.edu. John Plotz is Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanities at Brandeis University and co-founder of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative. Email: plotz@brandeis.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/folkore

Elizabeth and John talk about fantasy's power of world-making with Edinburgh professor Anna Vaninskaya, author of William Morris and the Idea of Community: Romance, History and Propaganda, 1880-1914 ( 2010) and Fantasies of Time and Death: Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien ( 2020). Anna uncovers the melancholy sense of displacement and loss running through Tolkien, and links his notion of "subcreation" to an often concealed theological vision. Not allegory but "application" is praised as a way of reading fantasy. John asks about hopeful visions of the radical politics of fantasy (Le Guin, but also Graeber and Wengrow's recent work); Elizabeth stresses that fantasy's appeal is at once childish and childlike. E. Nesbit surfaces, as she tends to in RtB conversations. The question of film TV and other visual modes comes up: is textual fantasy on the way out? Mentioned in the Episode: David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything. In "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie" Ursula Le Guin perhaps surprisingly praises the otherworldly prose style of Anna's beloved E. R. Eddison, best known for The Worm Ouroboros (1922) J. R. R. Tolkien, "On Fairy Stories" E. Nesbit The Phoenix and the Carpet Lord Dunsany, King of Elfland's Daughter Ursula Le Guin The Books of Earthsea Recallable Books: Sylvia Townsend Warner, Kingdoms of Elfin (and read this lovely Ivan Kreilkamp article on her earlier strange great Lolly Willowes) Lloyd Alexander Chronicles of Prydain N. K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season Read transcript here Elizabeth Ferry is Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. Email: ferry@brandeis.edu. John Plotz is Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanities at Brandeis University and co-founder of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative. Email: plotz@brandeis.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

Elizabeth and John talk about fantasy's power of world-making with Edinburgh professor Anna Vaninskaya, author of William Morris and the Idea of Community: Romance, History and Propaganda, 1880-1914 ( 2010) and Fantasies of Time and Death: Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien ( 2020). Anna uncovers the melancholy sense of displacement and loss running through Tolkien, and links his notion of "subcreation" to an often concealed theological vision. Not allegory but "application" is praised as a way of reading fantasy. John asks about hopeful visions of the radical politics of fantasy (Le Guin, but also Graeber and Wengrow's recent work); Elizabeth stresses that fantasy's appeal is at once childish and childlike. E. Nesbit surfaces, as she tends to in RtB conversations. The question of film TV and other visual modes comes up: is textual fantasy on the way out? Mentioned in the Episode: David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything. In "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie" Ursula Le Guin perhaps surprisingly praises the otherworldly prose style of Anna's beloved E. R. Eddison, best known for The Worm Ouroboros (1922) J. R. R. Tolkien, "On Fairy Stories" E. Nesbit The Phoenix and the Carpet Lord Dunsany, King of Elfland's Daughter Ursula Le Guin The Books of Earthsea Recallable Books: Sylvia Townsend Warner, Kingdoms of Elfin (and read this lovely Ivan Kreilkamp article on her earlier strange great Lolly Willowes) Lloyd Alexander Chronicles of Prydain N. K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season Read transcript here Elizabeth Ferry is Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. Email: ferry@brandeis.edu. John Plotz is Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanities at Brandeis University and co-founder of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative. Email: plotz@brandeis.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/fantasy

Elizabeth and John talk about fantasy's power of world-making with Edinburgh professor Anna Vaninskaya, author of William Morris and the Idea of Community: Romance, History and Propaganda, 1880-1914 ( 2010) and Fantasies of Time and Death: Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien ( 2020). Anna uncovers the melancholy sense of displacement and loss running through Tolkien, and links his notion of "subcreation" to an often concealed theological vision. Not allegory but "application" is praised as a way of reading fantasy. John asks about hopeful visions of the radical politics of fantasy (Le Guin, but also Graeber and Wengrow's recent work); Elizabeth stresses that fantasy's appeal is at once childish and childlike. E. Nesbit surfaces, as she tends to in RtB conversations. The question of film TV and other visual modes comes up: is textual fantasy on the way out? Mentioned in the Episode: David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything. In "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie" Ursula Le Guin perhaps surprisingly praises the otherworldly prose style of Anna's beloved E. R. Eddison, best known for The Worm Ouroboros (1922) J. R. R. Tolkien, "On Fairy Stories" E. Nesbit The Phoenix and the Carpet Lord Dunsany, King of Elfland's Daughter Ursula Le Guin The Books of Earthsea Recallable Books: Sylvia Townsend Warner, Kingdoms of Elfin (and read this lovely Ivan Kreilkamp article on her earlier strange great Lolly Willowes) Lloyd Alexander Chronicles of Prydain N. K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season Read transcript here Elizabeth Ferry is Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. Email: ferry@brandeis.edu. John Plotz is Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanities at Brandeis University and co-founder of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative. Email: plotz@brandeis.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/popular-culture

Elizabeth and John talk about fantasy's power of world-making with Edinburgh professor Anna Vaninskaya, author of William Morris and the Idea of Community: Romance, History and Propaganda, 1880-1914 ( 2010) and Fantasies of Time and Death: Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien ( 2020). Anna uncovers the melancholy sense of displacement and loss running through Tolkien, and links his notion of "subcreation" to an often concealed theological vision. Not allegory but "application" is praised as a way of reading fantasy. John asks about hopeful visions of the radical politics of fantasy (Le Guin, but also Graeber and Wengrow's recent work); Elizabeth stresses that fantasy's appeal is at once childish and childlike. E. Nesbit surfaces, as she tends to in RtB conversations. The question of film TV and other visual modes comes up: is textual fantasy on the way out? Mentioned in the Episode: David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything. In "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie" Ursula Le Guin perhaps surprisingly praises the otherworldly prose style of Anna's beloved E. R. Eddison, best known for The Worm Ouroboros (1922) J. R. R. Tolkien, "On Fairy Stories" E. Nesbit The Phoenix and the Carpet Lord Dunsany, King of Elfland's Daughter Ursula Le Guin The Books of Earthsea Recallable Books: Sylvia Townsend Warner, Kingdoms of Elfin (and read this lovely Ivan Kreilkamp article on her earlier strange great Lolly Willowes) Lloyd Alexander Chronicles of Prydain N. K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season Read transcript here Elizabeth Ferry is Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. Email: ferry@brandeis.edu. John Plotz is Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanities at Brandeis University and co-founder of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative. Email: plotz@brandeis.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies

Elizabeth and John talk about fantasy's power of world-making with Edinburgh professor Anna Vaninskaya, author of William Morris and the Idea of Community: Romance, History and Propaganda, 1880-1914 ( 2010) and Fantasies of Time and Death: Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien ( 2020). Anna uncovers the melancholy sense of displacement and loss running through Tolkien, and links his notion of "subcreation" to an often concealed theological vision. Not allegory but "application" is praised as a way of reading fantasy. John asks about hopeful visions of the radical politics of fantasy (Le Guin, but also Graeber and Wengrow's recent work); Elizabeth stresses that fantasy's appeal is at once childish and childlike. E. Nesbit surfaces, as she tends to in RtB conversations. The question of film TV and other visual modes comes up: is textual fantasy on the way out? Mentioned in the Episode: David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything. In "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie" Ursula Le Guin perhaps surprisingly praises the otherworldly prose style of Anna's beloved E. R. Eddison, best known for The Worm Ouroboros (1922) J. R. R. Tolkien, "On Fairy Stories" E. Nesbit The Phoenix and the Carpet Lord Dunsany, King of Elfland's Daughter Ursula Le Guin The Books of Earthsea Recallable Books: Sylvia Townsend Warner, Kingdoms of Elfin (and read this lovely Ivan Kreilkamp article on her earlier strange great Lolly Willowes) Lloyd Alexander Chronicles of Prydain N. K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season Read transcript here Elizabeth Ferry is Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. Email: ferry@brandeis.edu. John Plotz is Barbara Mandel Professor of the Humanities at Brandeis University and co-founder of the Brandeis Educational Justice Initiative. Email: plotz@brandeis.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/book-of-the-day

We dive into chapter 4 – Free People, the Origin of Cultures, and the Advent of Private Property – of The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow. This chapter is bookended by discussions of two key political distinctions that organize societies in fundamentally different ways. We start with formal freedom vs substantive freedom. Or, freedom as an ideology (e.g. the land of the free; the pursuit of liberty; spreading democracy) and freedom as a practice (e.g. the ability to actually do things and live life in certain ways). We then conclude on the question of the origins of property. Here we indigenous conceptions of property in the form of sacred objects/knowledge based on relations of caring and sharing. Which evolve into contemporary conceptions (based on Roman law) of property as private possessions based on relations of domination and exclusion. Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills Grab fresh new TMK gear: bonfire.com/store/this-machine-kills-podcast/ Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl)

What if everything we thought we knew about the origins of human civilisation is a myth? In their book The Dawn of Everything, the late David Graeber and his collaborator David Wengrow tell an ambitious and revelatory new history of the world – one that overturns the notion of Rosseau's innocent Noble Savage and the ‘nasty, brutish and short' lives of Thomas Hobbes alike. In this episode of the podcast, Wengrow joins former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis to transform your understanding of our past and offer a powerful, playful, and extraordinarily original vision of our future.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I join with Geoff Shullenberger of "Outsider Theory" to discuss the sweeping and challenging new book, "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" by David Graeber and David Wengrow. We consider the book's marshalling of new archaeological evidence to debunk mechanistic and deterministic assumptions about the rise of civilization, its deep rejection of Marxism, and its insistence on the human ability to imagine and create an infinite range of social and political futures. We examine the weaknesses and limitations of the book, including its over-emphasis on personal freedom, its gross inaccuracy with regard to the eighteenth century, and its blindspot regarding the profound powers of myth, ritual, and the natural environment, all of which deeply guide and shape societies in ways that Graeber & Wengrow ignore or casually discount. Please support this podcast to help keep it coming and hear patron-only lectures! -- www.patreon.com/user?u=5530632 Other books & authors mentioned: Marshall Sahlins, "The Original Affluent Society" Yuval Noah Harari, "Sapiens" James C. Scott, "Against the Grain" Claude Levi-Strauss, "The Savage Mind" Victor Turner, "The Ritual Process" Karl Wittfogel, "Oriental Despotism" John Rawls, "A Theory of Justice" Francoise de Graffigny, "Letters of a Peruvian Woman" Niccolo Machiavelli, "Discourses on Livy" Jared Diamond, "Guns, Germs, and Steel" JN Heard, "The Assimilation of Captives on the American Frontier in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries," LSU thesis David Graeber, "On Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit," "Debt: The First 5000 Years" Karl Polanyi, "The Great Transformation" Mark Fisher, "Capitalist Realism" Orlando Patterson, "Slavery and Social Death" Bruno Latour, "We Have Never Been Modern" Roberto Calasso, "The Ruin of Kasch" Ivan Illich Rene Girard Richard Wolff Thomas Sowell Divya Cherian

Just before his death, David Graeber completed a manuscript of a book called https://bookshop.org/a/82618/9780374157357 (The Dawn of Everything) - both a serious attempt to provide an entirely new story of the origin of "civilization" and playful takedown of other recent books that purport to explain civilization. Written with David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything raises many fabulous and provocative questions: what if it was indigenous Americans, not Europeans, who started the Enlightement? What if the modern state isn't "progress" but actually a form of society that's been tried and discarded hundreds of times? And, most of all, what if most humans lived much more free lives than almost anyone alive today? Join me as a I try to explain the answers Graeber and Wengrow give to these questions. And don't worry: I'll have some archeologists and anthropologists on the show soon to provide expert opinions on the book. As always, you can find me at https://my.captivate.fm/www.everydayanarchism.com (www.everydayanarchism.com).

We dive into chapter 3 – Unfreezing the Ice Age – of The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow. We travel back to prehistoric times to learn how the actual archaeological evidence flies in the face of persistent, ubiquitous interpretations of human nature as unchangeable and human society as one-dimensional. Instead, we see how social fluidity and political experimentation has long been the norm – and the rigidity of our institutions and thinking today is the real anomaly. Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills Grab fresh new TMK gear: bonfire.com/store/this-machine-kills-podcast/ Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl)

We have been told wrong: inequality is not the price of civilisation, says archaeologist David Wengrow. Many long held assumptions about how humans developed as a species are blown apart by Wengrow and the late anthropologist David Graeber in their international bestseller The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity.

It's time for chapter 2 – Wicked Liberty – of The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow. We dig deep into the colonial origins of the Enlightenment, the hegemonic historical narrative of European superiority, the striking indigenous critique that Native Americans levied against European society, and the myths of progress that continue today and prevent us from imagining radically alternative ways of living. Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills Grab fresh new TMK gear: bonfire.com/store/this-machine-kills-podcast/ Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl)

Welcome to episode of 108 of Activist #MMT. Today I talk with Wesley Wiles about the false historical modes of production and how they relate to MMT. The primary source of this information is the 700 page 2021 book, : A New History of Humanity by the late anthropologist David Graeber and archaeologist David Wengrow. Essentially, Graber and Wengrow reject the myth that, as civilization becomes larger and more complex, it must necessarily also become more unequal. This myth, and its false modes of production, asserts that ever-increasing inequality is "unfortunate but necessary". In the same vein, mainstream economics' assertion that a federal deficit is always bad, a balanced budget always better, and a surplus always best; means that the government's budget position is more important than the real-world condition of millions of human beings. This in turn implies that austerity, too, is "unfortunate but necessary". The truth is that the only reason inequality or austerity is "unfortunate but necessary", is if we choose for it to be that way. We can choose differently. The real challenge is to stand up to those who benefit greatly from these things not changing. Because in both of these cases, it's a matter of life and death, for us as individuals and as a human species. Wesley's provided some other valuable video lectures and panels, links to which you can find in the show notes. They include a on the book The Dawn of Everything, with Wengrow, Stephanie Kelton, and others. There's also an excellent on rentier capitalism with Graeber, Guy Standing, and Michael Hudson, filmed only days before Graeber's untimely death. And now, onto my conversation with Wesley Wiles. Enjoy. Resources Davis Greaber Randy Wray: : Panel with David Graeber, Michael Hudson & Guy Standing

Welcome to episode of 108 of Activist #MMT. Today I talk with Wesley Wiles about the false historical modes of production and how they relate to MMT. The primary source of this information is the 700 page 2021 book, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by the late anthropologist David Graeber and archaeologist David Wengrow. Essentially, Graber and Wengrow reject the myth that, as civilization becomes larger and more complex, it must necessarily also become more unequal. This myth, and its false modes of production, asserts that ever-increasing inequality is "unfortunate but necessary". In the same vein, mainstream economics' assertion that a federal deficit is always bad, a balanced budget always better, and a surplus always best; means that the government's budget position is more important than the real-world condition of millions of human beings. This in turn implies that austerity, too, is "unfortunate but necessary". The truth is that the only reason inequality or austerity is "unfortunate but necessary", is if we choose for it to be that way. We can choose differently. The real challenge is to stand up to those who benefit greatly from these things not changing. Because in both of these cases, it's a matter of life and death, for us as individuals and as a human species. Wesley's provided some other valuable video lectures and panels, links to which you can find in the show notes. They include a panel discussion on the book The Dawn of Everything, with Wengrow, Stephanie Kelton, and others. There's also an excellent panel discussion on rentier capitalism with Graeber, Guy Standing, and Michael Hudson, filmed only days before Graeber's untimely death. And now, onto my conversation with Wesley Wiles. Enjoy. Resources Davis Greaber Where Did Money REALLY Come From? Randy Wray: Money Did Not Come From Barter - It Came From Blood Feuds Against Rentier Capitalism: Panel with David Graeber, Michael Hudson & Guy Standing Dawn of Everything discussion

Released in late 2021, David Graeber and David Wengrow's enormous book, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, claims to try to set the record straight about the where we all came from. In this episode, we talk about what motivated Graeber and Wengrow to write the book and how the common narrative about the structures of human societies is both right and wrong for different reasons. We also give some context on Graeber's reputation as an Anarchist and Jules then schools us on the differences between Anarchism, Socialism, and Communism. We start this one with a lengthy passage from the book. For everyone who doesn't dose off, things get more lively later in the episode. Main source: The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow Music: Airglow, Blueshift (CC BY 4.0) Monreoville Music Center, The Race Forever (CC BY 3.0) Nihilore, B1-66ER (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ ⛬ For $3 a month, get an extra few subscriber only episodes every month. We have a limited number of True Believer memberships available. https://www.patreon.com/wetwired Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/wetwiredpod

This time around, Langdon and Eden dive deep into the early stages of human development, the Enlightenment and our political predicament with Wengrow and Graeber's "The Dawn of Everything"! But first, they take a trip to a more recent time, looking at the rise and fall (and rise) of "dark" progressive music through the lens of Pain of Salvation's current...situation. Then the conversation turns to the folly of the Enlightenment's rigid perception of history and the meaning of a broader, more playful political imaginary for Marxists/leftists! Music played: Lasiodora - Royal Jelly (https://lasiodora.bandcamp.com/track/royal-jelly) Galaxy - Bright Stars (https://galaxyaus.bandcamp.com/track/bright-stars)

Voor de beschaving was alles beter: de mens leefde als 'nobele wilde' samen met elkaar en de natuur. Het is een diepgeworteld maar onjuist verhaal. Een mythe, de moderne versie van het Bijbelse Adam en Eva. Althans dat vinden de auteurs Graeber en Wengrow in 'The Dawn of Everything'. We bespreken het boek met Madeleijn van den Nieuwenhuizen. Verder in Het Spoor Terug: Bloody Sunday in Roermond: aflevering 2 Dood Spoor, OVT 09-01-22.

My reactions to the fourth chapter of Graeber and Wengrow's recent book, prior to discussing them in the Obsidian Book Club this week.

In this episode, we conclude our broad sweep of human history, venturing fearlessly into the truly tangled wilderness of variables mediating the relationship between technology and hierarchy. We critique Graeber and Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything as a frame for our journey, examining the relationship between civilization, domestication, and human evolution; the cross-species relationship between social form and costly infrastructure; the trend toward technological mass society in early human evolution; the post-materialist shift in the upper Paleolithic; and the conditions necessary for escape cultures. We search for inferences about contemporary revolutionary efforts, examining how strategies of evasion involve social disaggregation and strategies of confrontation involve social cohesion, and emerge from the complexity with an overarching thesis: the strategic advantage of egalitarianism is in its greater capacity for social comprehension. 

The discussion of the Enlightenment in the early chapters of Graeber and Wengrow's book reminded me of a book I read in grad school about the wide reading habits of early US citizens, called Reading Becomes a Necessity of Life. Here's my summary of the book.

Okay, so I'm going to do it! A book club to read and discuss the new Graeber and Wengrow book, *The Dawn of Everything*, and a shared Obsidian vault in which we can do this and also share ideas and techniques for note-taking and knowledge management. This will include not only the shared vault but weekly Zoom meetings, so at the end of the video there's a list of things I'd like to know about you to get started and send you the appropriate invitations. I'll begin building the vault this weekend and we'll commence next week. EVERYONE who wants to share their thoughts is welcome! Basic rules of civility apply, and I'd like this to be visible to the rest of the world, so our work can be useful to others. Share this with your friends and relatives! THANKS!!

Nora Bateson joins us for a panel discussion on "The Great Stage Theory Debate." Panelists include Maimunah Mosli, a Muslim family psychotherapist from Singapore who brings a much needed non-Western voice to this discussion, and Jon Freeman, an author and Spiral Dynamics expert who is advocating for the usage of stage theory, and myself, attempting to hold the facilitator role as much as I realistically can. A follow-up Mutations monologue will be published soon with some more thoughts on how a Gebserian approach offers another kind of non-linear framing for consciousness efflorescence more aligned with Nora's approach on the one hand and creatively engaging new works (like The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow) on the other. Stay tuned for that, plus more recorded panels. Original post by Nora: https://www.facebook.com/norabateson/posts/10159038460440860 Hanzi's reply: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1199720657209567&id=100015149321507 Article recommended by Nora: "The Place of eugenics in Arnold Gesell's maturation theory of child development": https://indexarticles.com/health-fitness/canadian-psychology/place-of-eugenics-in-arnold-gesells-maturation-theory-of-child-development-the/ Jon's article, https://medium.com/@jon_25033/timelines-in-stage-theory-from-flatland-and-stasis-to-living-dynamics-d6e5a6773e81 PANELIST INFO: Nora Bateson's homepage: https://batesoninstitute.org/nora-bateson/ Maimunah Mosli: https://www.taosinstitute.net/about-us/people/institute-associates/asia/singapore/maimunah-mosli Jon Freeman: http://spiralfutures.com/ & https://twitter.com/freejonsop --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mutations/message

We're told that human nature is hardwired to need authority and hierarchy, and that we're driven by selfishness and greed. But is that really true? In a new book by David Wengrow and the late great David Graeber - THE DAWN OF EVERYTHING - the standard narrative about human history is challenged. Wengrow explains why it's not true that as human society gets more complicated there's a need for more top down control - and what our history tells us about our future.Please subscribe - and help us take on the right-wing media here: https://patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow does a great job at debunking the big histories of figures like Noah Yuval Harari and Stephen Pinker, but at a cost that ultimately undermines their argument.In this discussion and critique of a wonderfully disruptive book, I outline their case and some of the evidence, argue that they are implicitly advocating a state of nature myth, based on reason not Eden or violence, and suggest that this, unwittingly, recolonises the past with modern secular reason.But it's a book very much worth engaging with!0:44 Why they are right about retelling our back story.4:50 Why they are right about emerging evidence for its endless complexity.10:44 Tasters of the alternative Homo sapiens prehistory they tell.18:20 And yet, what is crucially missing in their retelling.28:22 How it recolonises the past with notions of secular reason, freedom and will.33:19 The first cities as ritual sites and what that says about consciousness.37:33 Why a demythologised past isn't enough for our future.

A critical reading of “The Wisdom of Kandiaronk, The Indigenous Critique, the Myth of Progress and the Birth of the Left” from David Graeber & David Wengrow’s upcoming book The Dawn of Everything. In this chapter Graeber & Wengrow argue... Continue Reading →

Episode #6 - Jay Wengrow - Professional Technical Interviewee with Taylor Dorsett My guest today is Jay Wengrow, Founder of Actualize Coding Bootcamp and Author of A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms. - Video: https://youtu.be/po5tRjzxDNU - Part Two - Technical: https://youtu.be/66eYkpvXOSk - Audio only: https://ProfessionalTechnicalIntervieweewithTaylorDorsett.podbean.com/e/episode-6-jay-wengrow Guest: Jay Wengrow - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaywengrow/ - Website: https://anyonecanlearntocode.com/ - Book: https://pragprog.com/titles/jwdsal2/ If you enjoyed the show please subscribe, thumbs up, and share the show. Episodes released on the first and third Thursday of each month. Host: Taylor Dorsett - Email: dorsetttaylordev@gmail.com - Twitter: @yodorsett - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylordorsett/ - Github: https://github.com/TaylorOD - Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TaylorDorsett Editor: Dustin Bays - Email: dustin.bays@baysbrass.com - Twitter/Instagram: @Bays4Bays