BULLSHIT JOBS: Why They Exist And Why You Might Have One
Interviews
in media
Interview on alternet.org by Lynn Stuart Parramore about democracy in America
24 Apr 2013
'A Kaleidoscopic Sense of Possibility': Interview with David Graeber on Democracy in America
Interview on discoveries, knowledge and the restaurant kitchen phenomenon
2016
An Interview with David Graeber (2016)
In 2016, Rachael Kiddey interviewed David Graeber about the concept of ‘discovery’ and about his research.
Is Universal Basic Income a remedy for bullshit jobs?
11 Oct 2018
David Graeber : le revenu universel, remède aux jobs à la con ?
On bullshit jobs and bullshitisation, capitalism or feudalism, Foucault, anarchism, the Occupy movement
Interview by Philippe Vion-Dury, published on socioalter.fr
It’s not called capitalism, but feudalism
27 Jan 2016
On
- the radical Left and the institutional Left
- arguments for capitalism are no longer there
- there is no such thing as “financial deregulation”
- We are living in the era of predatory bureaucratization
Interviewed by Arthur De Grave, published on ouishare.net
Jo Lateu interview about anarchism
1 Jan 2014
David Graeber on acting like an anarchist
Joshua Frank revisiting the wrongful termination from Yale
4 Sept 2020
David Graeber is Gone: Revisiting His Wrongful Termination from Yale
Mark Thwaite (ReadySteadyBook) interview about direct action, anthropology and the departure from Yale
16 January 2007
David Graeber Interview with ReadySteadyBook
Movements, strategies, visions, solutions
16 Dec 2011
About movements: Occupy, the Global Justice Movement, revolutions of 1848, anti-war, feminism, etc. The Gandhian strategy. The distinction between “visions,” “demands,” and “solutions”
Interview by Ross Wolfe, published on platypus1917.org
Myths about the debt and money
26 Aug 2011
- Barter is a myth.
- Debt is a moral concept long before it becomes an economic concept.
- The urge to return a gift.
Interview by Philip Pilkington, published on nakedcapitalism.com
Ni dieu ni dette/The era of bureaucracy (In Russian)
2016
Эра хищнической бюрократизации
Translation into Russian
Published in Socialter No 14, 5 Dec 2015
https://www.socialter.fr/article/numero-14-au-sommaire
No. This is a Genuine Revolution
26 Dec 2014
An interview around Graeber's trip to Rojava, the "democratic experiment" of the Syrian Kurds and the hope it instilled about the possibilities of the future.
Interview by Pinar Öğünç, published on znetwork.org