Discussion about bullshit jobs. However, there also might be bullshit education, and what about bullshit leisure..
Technological advance hasn’t really freed up our time.
Interview by Andrei Babitsky (1964-2022), published on academia.edu
Interviews
in media
Economist interview about bullshit jobs
29 Jun 2018
Bullshit jobs and the yoke of managerial feudalism
Populism, pointless work and panicked youth: an interview with David Graeber of LSE
Elias Isquith (Salon.com) asks about the Iron Law of Liberalism
5 Mar 2015
"I found myself turning into an idiot!": David Graeber explains the life-sapping reality of bureaucratic life.
The activist-academic and Occupy Wall Street champion tells Salon about his new book on the bureaucratic state
Finance Is Just Another Word for Other People’s Debts
1 January 2014
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World, p 55
Francesca Polletta interview about the Direct Action Network (DAN)
March 2001
“This is what democracy looks like”: A conversation with Direct Action Network Activists David Graeber , Brooke Lehman, Jose Lugo, and Jeremy Varon
Fun with David Graeber
8 Feb 2014
Play is, if anything, the basis of all physical reality, it’s the ultimate natural principle. And if you think of the world that way, it’s a very different place.
Transcribed from This is Hell! Radio‘s 8 February 2014 episode and printed with permission.
Imagination – the Solution for Society’s Problems
14 Feb 2014
About democracy, debt cancellation, links between debt and military interventionism, problems of the future
Interview by Milenko Srećković, published in the Serbian Daily
Imagining a world with no bullshit jobs
Aug 2018
In this interview about his book on bullshit jobs, David Graeber discusses the role of unions, the challenges posed by automation and “the revolt of the caring classes.”
Interview by Chris Brooks, published on roarmag.org
Interview by Adrian Chen about the Democracy Project and Occupy
2013
A Discussion With Anarchist Activist and Scholar David Graeber, Author of The Democracy Project
Originally published on gawker.com
Interview by Aro Velmet on anarchism, work and bureaucracy
9 May 2017
Anarchism, work and bureaucracy. An interview with David Graeber. Aro Velmet, Vikerkaar 4-5/2017
Interview by David Whelan (vice.com) about bullshit jobs
10 Feb 2015
Anthropologist David Graeber Explains Why Dead-End Jobs Exist.
Interview by Ellen Evans and Jon Moses on the WhiteReview
Dec 2011
INTERVIEW WITH DAVID GRAEBER