- Anarchism, capitalism, social power, resistance
The twelve essays cover a lot of ground, including the origins of capitalism, the history of European table manners, love potions in rural Madagascar, and the phenomenology of giant puppets at street protests. But they’re linked by a clear purpose: to explore the nature of social power and the forms that resistance to it have taken, or might take in the future. [Source][1] [1]: http://www.amazon.com/Possibilities-Essays-Hierarchy-Rebellion-Desire/dp/1904859666
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- Author
- David Graeber
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 363
- Publisher
- Éditions Payot & Rivages, Στάσει Εκπίπτοντες, AK Press
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- gre, English, French
- ISBN
- 9782228911511
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**David Rolfe Graeber** (/ˈɡreɪbər/; February 12, 1961 – September 2, 2020) was an American anthropologist, anarchist activist and author known for his books *Debt: The First 5000 Years* (2011), *The Utopia of Rules* (2015) and *Bullshit Jobs: A Theory* (2018). He was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. As an assistant professor and associate professor of anthropology at Yale from 1998–2007 he specialised in theories of value and social theory. The university's decision not to rehire him when he would otherwise have become eligible for tenure sparked an academic controversy, and a petition with more than 4,500 signatures. He went on to become, from 2007–13, Reader
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