{"id":11228,"date":"2024-08-13T06:43:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T06:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=11228"},"modified":"2024-09-07T11:31:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T11:31:34","slug":"meadway-on-graeber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/meadway-on-graeber\/","title":{"rendered":"Meadway on Graeber"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>James Meadway brought David Graeber&#8217;s work to my attention in <a href=\"https:\/\/salvage.zone\/acting-as-if-one-is-already-free-david-graebers-political-economy-and-the-strategic-impasse-of-the-left\/\">a long article<\/a> which I have annotated on diigo. The article pointed me at some further reading, most interestingly for me, he posits that the Silicon revolution changes the way power is exercised and at the end references Kate Pistor&#8217;s advocacy of Data Trusts. Here are my notes and links. &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The political strategy for the Left, faced with the monumental prospect that its brief period of coexistence with the state might be unwinding, takes us back to Graeber the activist, to prefiguration, in the sense of seeking to create immediate alternatives that themselves act as synecdoche for the future society to be created: \u2018direct action is ultimately the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.\u2019 The strategies of community wealth building, of platform co-operatives, of the occupation of disused office spaces must fit into this plan. Graeber sees the taking of state power as a final, small step towards socialism, not the first, grand step on the way.<\/p>\n<cite>James Meadway &#8211; The Salvage<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Read More<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/strikemag.org\/bullshit-jobs\/\">Bullshit Jobs<\/a> &#8230; by Graeber<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=pistor+data+trusts\">Google query, Pistor Data Trusts<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=katharina+pistor\">query kate pistor<\/a>, this for some reason points at <a href=\"https:\/\/hello.elementai.com\/rs\/024-OAQ-547\/images\/Data_Trusts_EN_201914.pdf\">Data Trusts A new tool for data governance<\/a> by Element AI | nesta<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/c\/chartalism.asp\">What is chartalism?<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Me <a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/eternal-vigilance\/\">on Sesame Credit<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>I made <a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/on-macroeconomics-in-memory-of-david-graeber\/\">a review of a review on Graeber&#8217;s macro-economics<\/a> on my blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Meadway brought David Graeber&#8217;s work to my attention in a long article which I have annotated on diigo. The article pointed me at some further reading, most interestingly for me, he posits that the Silicon revolution changes the way power is exercised and at the end references Kate Pistor&#8217;s advocacy of Data Trusts. 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