The following announcement comes from our sisters and brothers at Occupy Harvard:
Currencies, a dis/Conference
with David Graeber
Harvard University, Northwest Labs basement (under the whales)
March 23, 2012, 12 pm -5 pmCurrencies are telling of our current time. Debt, labor, commodification, ownership, and consumerism structure and characterize contemporary life and knowledge production. From the monetization and protection of intellectual property to the debts that students accrue, from the exploitation of adjunct labor to the re-productions of class lines, this dis/Conference seeks critical engagement with what has currency and what serves as currency in education and life today.
In contrast to traditional conference formats, this dis/Conference seeks to facilitate open, horizontal education through substantive knowledge sharing, inquiry, critique, and discussion. Together with David Graeber—anarchist, occupier, and anthropologist—we will engage the economies of academia by subverting its dominant forms of knowledge production. In the process, we will participate in the purposeful creation of an alternative model for scholarly engagement, beyond mere discussion. Under this model, our primary resources will be ourselves. Everyone—inside or outside of academia—is welcome.
For more information, please visit www.currenciesdisconference.info.
5 Responses to “Currencies, a dis/Conference with David Graeber at Harvard University”
We already know the end result of this conference. More demands the American people pay off your student loans and more money to subsidize the industries that employ you. To develop a leftist ideology to explain again to us why freedom doesn’t work and how we need government coercion. To justify your refusal to allow the poor a choice in their lives with school vouchers.
And notice how the anthropologist left never goes to the city people of China to learn. http://youtu.be/Lby9P3ms11w
Intriguing that you suggest Graeber is for government coercion while he is a fairly vocal opponent of states.
I did not mean to suggest Graeber does not dislike states. I just think that the results of having this conference will be more of the same socialist pro state boilerplate progressive leftism coming out of official Occupy Boston. We need to get outdoors more. I see Occupy as a social movement. I think it is time for people to rethink their political assumptions.
If you folks want to continue having meetings at Harvard you need to understand that Harvard yard may be perceived as a dangerous environment for some people coming from Boston neighborhoods. You need to work on outreach and a plan to assure people they will not get jumped by the police. And remember the same Harvard institution that favors you enforces a quota against Asian students the same as they did the in past against Jews.
on March 22nd, 2012 at 2:18 am #
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