I succumbed to Twitter only a year or so ago and, with frequent blocking of advertisements and right-wing rubbish, continue to find it a useful resource. It has just reminded me that it was four years ago yesterday we lost David Graeber to whom I paid tribute in a post which included a list of some of his books (with hyperlinks) and articles about them.
Graeber Resource For those who prefer visuals here’s a Youtube session hosted by Baffler
with David and PeterThiel (!) debating the pace of innovation. For an academic, Graeber has a very accessible writing style – although I have to say I found his massive "Debt - the first 5,000 years" too detailed for me to absorb. It has been sitting, glowering at me from the bookshelves, for the past six years
...Much more accessible are these books (all downloadable)
Possibilities – essays on hierarchy, rebellion and desire (2007)
Direct Action – an ethnography (2009)
Revolutions in Reverse – essays on politics, violence, art and imagination (2011?)
The Utopia of Rules – on technology, stupidity and the secret joys of bureaucracy (2015);
Bullshit Jobs – a theory (2018) the full book – with this being my overview after reading the book. The book attracted a lot of comments viz -
One of the few academic reviews has a tinge of jealousy about it.
This one has a more positive academic take
And this is a serious review which does a good summary
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/25/bullshit-jobs-a-theory-by-david-graeber-review – a fair review
a more critical reviewer who ends up agreeing with Graeber
It was a nice gesture of New York Review of Books to give us another look at the last piece he wrote for them - Against Economics , his very positive review of Robert Skidelsky’s “What’s Wrong with Economics”. And also these tributes from DG's friends - including this one from writer Rebecca Solnit
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