These days the Spanish translation of Future City by
@nikadubrovsky is published by
Juliet ⭐️⭐️⭐️
@JuliGaz
🙌
Lovely days in Santiago 🇨🇱 speaking about imagination, play, freedom, and the key role cities can play
All inspired by #thedawnofeverything by
@davidwengrow
& the so much missed
@davidgraeber

I disagree with #Graeber and/or #Wengrow's idea that asking where inequality comes from necessarily implies the existence of a past era of equality. Like... even if the first time one cell divided into two, the second was somehow subordinate to the first, *that would be an answer to the question*
#DawnOfEverything #TheDawnOfEverything

I'm reading #TheDawnOfEverything, delighted to hear these scholars lucidly arguing for something really important to me.

The arrogance of #MythOfProgress – which skews how we regard our ancestors, and shrinks our ability to imagine alternative futures – has frustrated me for a very long time. At last: DEBUNKED!

Graeber in particular happens to be my favorite scholarly curmudgeon at this point. So very clearheaded, so very cantankerous. #RestInPeace Graeber.

#anthropology #history #modernism

Habe gerade angefangen, "Anfänge" (#thedawnofeverything) von #davidgraeber und #davidwengrow zu lesen und nach dem einleitenden Kapitel... Wow! Was für ein Augenöffner! (das zu sein scheint). Oder bin ich einfach zu schnell begeistert? #Harari fand ich vor einigen Jahren ja auch Wow!, aber in "Anfänge" wird die Vorgehensweise von Harari in seinem Bestseller "Eine kurze Geschichte der Menschheit" so nebenbei quasi im Vorwort beiseite gewischt. Ich bin jedenfalls gespannt, wie das ausgeht.

Went to the gulf coast recently and Louisiana and Alabama are definitely doing some schismogenesis. #TheDawnOfEverything #anthropology

If you want to refer to an idea or argument that originates with The Dawn of Everything, do you say "Davidian"?

#TheDawnOfEverything #GraeberWengrow #davidgraeber #Graeber

Finishing up reading Graeber and Wengrow's #TheDawnOfEverything and can't help thinking this would've worked better as a reimagined Sid Meier's Civilization.

Yo #gamedev, where are all the #egalitarian #anarchisthistory 4x games?? smh

I think next time I read On Kings and #TheDawnOfEverything I think I'll focus on a word they don't use: defictionalization. The first Kings were pretend Kings. The first prisons (from what I can tell) appear to be pretend prisons (Tartarus?). How can we tell stories or play with fantasies without accidentally unleashing our nightmares and darker dreams on the world every once in a while?

#davidgraeber #Graeber

*slow double face palm*

So while I'm generally against "read x" as a response, reading #TheDawnOfEverything saves so much time on bad and dated narratives and info. The forms of domination that we have now are contingent on specific circumstances and decisions that folks made, not deterministic results of someone doing a trade one time.

According to #wengrow and #graeber's taxonomy of #power, #Twitter wields sovereign power (banning users and topics) and knowledge power(tech IP, algorithms, down ranking).

#ElonMusk, on the other hand wields sovereign (firing staff, unplugging servers) and charismatic power (although this seems to be waning quickly).

I wonder if this disjoint is part of the reason why Musk and Twitter aren't working well together?

#theDawnOfEverything

🎄📚 Ik ben alvast aan mijn 'feestmaal' begonnen...

#TheDawnOfEverything #HetBeginVanAlles #leestip

☔️ Fijne feestdagen!💫

@UncleCid @NerdShinobi @Wolven we don't need to fix all the problems. There will always be problems. We just need systems that help us mitigate the effects of worst of those problems - checks and balances on power.

I highly recommend giving The Dawn of Everything by Wengrow and Graeber a read for inspiration on how some parts of this might be achieved.

#theDawnOfEverything

There's been significant crossover of physicists into cancer biology - e.g. Paul Davies.

Here @davidwengrow is developing his work w. Graeber, re. Bateson, in a way that should appeal to physicists ..
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RT @davidwengrow
ABT #Schismogenesis in #TheDawnOfEverything - the "genesis" part is important: mainly it's about people freely creating new social worlds and values, as opposed to just stoking division with the opposite goal (to ke…
https://twitter.com/davidwengrow/status/1598636976655065088

There's been significant crossover of physicists into cancer biology - e.g. Paul Davies.

Here @davidwengrow is developing his work w. Graeber, re. Bateson, in a way that should appeal to physicists ..
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RT @davidwengrow
ABT #Schismogenesis in #TheDawnOfEverything - the "genesis" part is important: mainly it's about people freely creating new social worlds and values, as opposed to just stoking division with the opposite goal (to ke…
https://twitter.com/davidwengrow/status/1598636976655065088

It was great meeting David Wengrow during his Stockholm visit this week. The Swedish translation of #TheDawnOfEverything is just out: #BörjanPåAllt.
Here are two photos from our panel, taken by Maria Andrea Garcia.

#Prehistory #Anthropology #Archaeology #DavidGraeber #DavidWengrow

Time for a short #bookReview 📖

I finished reading #TheDawnOfEverything by D. #Graeber and D. #Wengrow.

It's quite a long book that took me way more than a month to go through, but worth the read and the last fifth of the book, post conclusion, is notes and references that can be skipped without losing too much. Overall very interesting, I warmly recommend it, even if some chapters were going a little too deep into the archeological record for my non-specialist tastes.

It was illuminating, specially as I had previously read #GunsGermsAndSteel by J. #Diamond and #Sapiens by Y. N. #Harari, both very popular books, and both adopting a very deterministic view of past human history.
I'm not 100% convinced by the interpretations of Graeber & Wengrow, but they appear to make a real honest effort at understanding our past, they base their reflections on recent archeological records, and present a much more nuanced "story of the human civilizations" than the previously cited books.

The book doesn't really provide any actionnable advice on how we should collectively go forward, but at least it tries to set the record straight on what was previously attempted ... with various level of success.

I finished #TheDawnOfEverything what should I read now?

Maybe #TheDawnOfEverything should also read Canetti “Crowds and Power” too: kind of tells the history of power hungry paranoids in societies

读 #TheDawnOfEverything ，提到早期人类狩猎采集文明按亲缘关系组成群落的 assumption 不一定准确，有些人太讨厌血缘关系了以至于要千辛万苦跑到超级远的地方居住。
我： :awesome:

#reading

Hey, did you read #theDawnOfEverything? or are you familiar with David #Graeber? or do you see the need for fresh historical interpretations and future imaginations?

Talk by @andreastagmose this coming Friday the 15th at 19:00 in #Leipzig, Georg-Schwarz-Straße 10, Eckladen

Detailed event description follows...