Francis Ford Coppola (director of Apocalypse Now and the Godfather trilogy) is shooting a new film called Megalopolis heavily influenced by the books of David Graeber (specifically Bullshit Jobs, Debt and The Dawn of Everything). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalopolis_(film) #davidgraeber #dawnofeverything via @NikaShilobod

#bondia #buenosdías
Aquí andamos leyendo El amanecer de todo.

He de decir que no es una historia del mundo al uso, pero toca muchas cuestiones pertinentes y su enfoque es liberador.

Si lo queréis oir en formato audiolibro está en invidious, en el canal Mi audioteca, del cuál me he hecho patrono.

#DawnOfEverything #elamanecerdetodo

@gimulnautti Most of the criticisms of #DawnofEverything (and #Debt) are strikingly similar to critiques of 1619 and, much earlier Zinn's History. They are often of the form "everyone in the field knew all this anyways, but it's also all wrong."

Brad @delong criticisms of #Graeber's work range from the simply wrong to the petty but ignore the bigger points. Delong is so upset at Graeber that he botches basic fact checks. But he is not alone in attempts to discredit both #Debt and #DawnOfEverything so much that people are discouraged from reading these accessible and revelatory books. It's really annoying to see ideological conformity pushed via supposedly scholarly book reviews.

A critique of Graeber and Wengrows #DawnOfEverything that has some content to it.
https://zenodo.org/record/5907061

The pipeline went something like

Ooh, there's a toot about an #anarchist #author I haven't heard of!

I should read Graeber.

But I should check reviews before I commit to buying the #DawnofEverything.

#MRonline seems to have a good point ("Graeber is compelling and cool, but there's newer science")

Ooh! There's a newer book cited on the same topic, which leans on So Much Recent Data to discuss how class happened in early societies.

I should read that book.

@adamgreenfield

Yes, and the entire text was worthy reading with much to consider.

To your specific point, I consider that the Europeans weren't able to fully grasp the beauties of North American relationships, in part because they were unable to sufficiently shed their own ideological entrenchments.

In support of this determination, I offer our current reality as evidence.

#DawnOfEverything

Friend is suffering of climate anxiety (no wonder, I myself have only bad days and worse days)

so I ended up chatting about potential of #reforestation #rewilding

Tree planting isn't as pop as it was, but it still has "mind blowing potential"

Bc, remember "Little Ice Age"? I'm not suggesting murdering and killing with diseases millions of people,but radically reducing *animal ag* and fishing (kelp,seagrass and whales etc are huuuuuge carbon sinks!)🌱🐳

https://theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/04/planting-billions-trees-best-tackle-climate-crisis-scientists-canopy-emissions #Dawnofeverything

Did you know that we in the west are actually living in *China*? 😉😁🤔

...and I like the tone of writing 😁

Re-reading Dawn of everything, just for fun, to settle down the running nose and headache, ie having I'm having a flu and staying in.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jun/12/david-wengrow-graeber-dawn-of-history-interview

#archaelogy #anthropology #politics #history #monday #covid19 #dawnofeverything

@Eceni I love the bit where they characterise the standard histories of humanity as “mostly wrong”; “extremely dangerous” and “unnecessarily” dull and then the whole book is a riotous performance of these assertions #DawnOfEverything

The Roots of Inequality: An Exchange between David Wengrow and Kwame Anthony Appiah
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/01/13/the-roots-of-inequality-an-exchange/

#davidgraeber #dawnofeverything