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'On Capitalism’s Endless Busywork.'

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November 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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We recently published a lesser known article by David Graeber written in 2013 called - Buncombe.

Here is the piece and an extract.

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November 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Remembering Joanne Kyger BOTD in 1934, from the Smoking Poets series, lino reduction print, 5x7
November 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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November 16, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Neo-Liberalism, Trickle-down economics, Thatcherism or whatever you call it really has more in common with fundamentalist religion than anything else.
November 16, 2025 at 12:31 AM
November 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
November 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The Fall of America (after Larry Rivers and Bruegel, the Younger)
November 8, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Something for the "spirit" of the day: "Every time I catch one the other two getaway."
October 31, 2025 at 11:46 PM
October 31, 2025 at 11:43 PM
it is characteristic of American genius that the casual eye does not easily distinguish it from charlatanry. Purity of intention lies at the center of American achievement. Modern American writing is about honesty. The American tradition is to offer discovery, not virtuoso performances. H Kenner
October 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Back in 2010, David Graeber wrote, Against Kamikaze Capitalism

This is a quote from that piece.
October 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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October 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Raymond Chandler, Raymond Queneau, Raymond Roussel walk into a bar.
October 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Modern capitalism has more in common with Feudalism and the oldstyle slave-system than most people realize.

From: davidgraeber.org/articles/tur...
October 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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October 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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"The colonized is indebted to the colonizer for being colonized."

David Graeber speaks about the brutality of Debt in history.
October 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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October 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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October 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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In 2011. David Graeber wrote the book: Revolutions In Reverse.

A lesser known book than his other books, but still a good source to teach us about how the system works.
October 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Terrific poems & remembrances of Alice Notley at The Brooklyn Rail by Anne Waldman, Eleni Sikelianos, Eileen Myles, Brenda Coultas, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Evelyn Reilly, The Friend, & Lee Ann Brown.

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Amid These Words I Can Know | The Brooklyn Rail
Alice Notley (November 8, 1945–May 19, 2025) was an American poet, widely considered among the greatest (and most loved) writers of narrative, epic poetry of her time. She was the author of more than ...
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October 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Look what come my way today. Can't say I'm disappointed (didn't think I would be).
October 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM