“[Duke] Ellington never let you forget that music was his profession. On the other hand, the popular vision of Coltrane is that he seemed to ask you, repeatedly, to alter your life.”
Ben Ratliff

Coltrane: The Story of a Sound

Tag Archives: David Graeber

Are You An Anarchist?

Published: January 16, 2017
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“Many people seem to think that anarchists are proponents of violence, chaos, and destruction, that they are against all forms of order and organization, or that they are crazed nihilists who just want to blow everything up. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. Anarchists are simply people who believe human beings are […]

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David Graeber on Creating Each Other

Published: June 20, 2016
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imagining economies in which we primarily create each other … and along the way some “things”:

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David Graeber and David Wengrow: Ritual Seasonality and the Origins of Inequality

Published: January 10, 2016
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Another gem from David Graeber (and friend) … the core idea is that politics was a seasonal thing … during spring/summer (periods of abundance) society would fragment into small(er) groups of hunter-gatherers who went out on their expiditions and that formed one kind of social-political stage … and during winter they came together into larger […]

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