A critical appraisal of the major works of David Graeber, who rose to fame as the theorist of the "Occupy Wall St" movement and left behind an influential scholarly and popular legacy in the form of a grand synthetic re-evaluation of received wisdom about the history of human civilization. At the core of Graeber's wide-ranging work is an optimism of the will that always attempts to demonstrate the contingency of what might otherwise be imagined as necessary, and thus immutable: to show that, however things are, they don't have to be that way, and can indeed be better. The course will attempt to strike a balance between appreciation for Graeber's willingness to table "big questions" and a skepticism towards his polemical framing.
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June 01
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June 15
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June 29
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July 13
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10 am (America/Phoenix)
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12 pm (America/Phoenix)
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July 27
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10 am (America/Phoenix)
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August 10
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10 am (America/Phoenix)
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12 pm (America/Phoenix)
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August 24
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12 pm (America/Phoenix)
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