David Graeber: Podcast Interviews

David Graeber, PhD

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Anthropologist, Interview host, Author, Economist

2 Interviews

David Graeber's Interviews

David Graeber & Astra Taylor • 18 Dec 2019 • EN

Astra Taylor and David Graeber: Democracy May Not Exist, But ...

In her latest book, Astra Taylor – ‘a rare public intellectual, utterly committed to asking humanity’s most profound questions yet entirely devoid of pretensions’ (Naomi Klein) – argues that democracy is not just in crisis, but that real democracy, inclusive and egalitarian, has never existed. Democracy May Not Exist b

Shankar Vedantam & David Graeber • 04 Sep 2018 • EN

Bullshit Jobs

Have you ever had a job where you had to stop and ask yourself: what am I doing here? If I quit tomorrow, would anyone even notice? This week on Hidden Brain, we talk with anthropologist David Graeber about the rise of what he calls "bullshit jobs," and how these positions affect the people who hold them.