[Noisebridge-discuss] Jan 29 event: discussion of Graeber's "Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology"

[Martin MacKerel]

We're postponing this to Sun Feb 12th, because Graeber will be
speaking at the Occupy Oakland occupation space at that time:

http://occupyoaklandmoveinday.org/content/occupy-oakland-weekend-action-detailed-schedule

Sunday 6-7pm: Dinner provided by the OO kitchen committee
- featuring a conversation between David Graeber & Andrej Grubacic
- bring food to donate and share!

Martin

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Martin MacKerel
<martin.mackerel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, Noisebridge!
>
> David Graeber is given some credit for starting Occupy Wall Street and
> has written a great book, _Debt: The First 5000 Years_, which I highly
> recommend. He's also in town this week, at City Lights on Thursday and
> at CIIS on Monday
>
> A few years ago he wrote a pamphlet titled "Fragments of an Anarchist
> Anthropology". I know you are already intrigued.
>
> Here is the text: http://ramshackleglory.com/paradigm14.pdf
>
> It's about 100 pages, but they are small, and it is a fairly
> straight-forward read.
>
> I met with a group of 17 or 18 people last week to discuss this, but
> the discussion devolved into shooting the shit about general anarchist
> politics over beer.
>
> So, for this meeting:
>
> Please do do the reading if you plan to attend. As you read the text,
> please note 2 or 3 or more questions or points of interest. We can
> gather them all, and then split up into groups of 2-6 people to
> discuss related groupings, coming together again to share the results
> of our discussion.
>
> Afterwards, we can lapse into shooting the shit over beer.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> PS Many of the planned attendees will participate in Move-in Day at
> Occupy Oakland:
> http://occupyoakland.org/2012/01/occupy-oakland-plans-mass-takeover-of-vacant-building/
> So there's a slight possibility we'll be in jail. Make of that what you will.