Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution

David Harvey in conversation with David Graeber
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 at 6.30 pm
Proshansky Auditorium, CUNY Graduate Center
Long before the Occupy movement, modern cities had already become the central sites of revolutionary politics, where the deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface. Consequently, cities have been the subject of much utopian thinking. But at the same time they are also the centers of capital accumulation and the frontline for struggles over who controls access to urban resources and who dictates the quality and organization of daily life. Is it the financiers and developers, or the people?
Rebel Cities places the city at the heart of both capital and class struggles, looking at locations ranging from Johannesburg to Mumbai, and from New York City to São Paulo. Drawing on the Paris Commune as well as Occupy Wall Street and the London Riots, Harvey asks how cities might be reorganized in more socially just and ecologically sane ways-and how they can become the focus for anti-capitalist resistance.
DAVID HARVEY is the director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center.
DAVID GRAEBER is Reader in the Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London. He has also worked extensively on value theory, and has recently completed a major research project on social movements dedicated to principles of direct democracy, direct action, and has written widely on the relation (real and potential) of anthropology and anarchism. He is currently working on a project on the history of debt.

[@elultimosonador3958]

rest in peace david graeber. i really will miss your thoughts and intellectualism.

[@lizmedina2527]

THIS IS true thought. We cannot create change without serious reflection and study, without including a wide-angle vision of human and historico-social processes. Without teachers and thinkers such as this man, left vs right has degenerated into an incoherent free-for-all of people just beating up on each other. Which is what the control system truly knows how to do.

[@misguidance10]

my god, finally! great sound quality. thanks!!!!!

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[@barbarajohnson1442]

Very interesting to learn of Urban Planning , highway design, to protect the properties! Since the 60's

[@arhansen85]

WHAT A GIFT❤there’s such wisdom right out of the gate.

[@brendonlagemaat3361]

David Harvey is right on the Button , very well explained.

[@joaweyang]

RIP David...

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David got DRIP in this vid fr

[@instituteforexperimentalar7493]

Influential anthropologist David Graeber, known for his 2011 volume Debt: The First 5000 Years speaks about the correlation between the cultural sphere and society. The intellectuals and the artists create an imaginary way to criticize the economic system in any era. Art can overcome hegemonic frameworks and acknowledge other possible worlds, offer us the opportunity to understand better the marginalized social entities. Social exclusion is the process in which individuals or people are systematically blocked from (or denied full access to) various rights, opportunities and resources that are normally available to members of a different group, and which are fundamental to social integration and observance of human rights within that particular group (e.g., housing, employment, healthcare, civic engagement, democratic participation, and due process). As the economic crises go deeper in time more people face the effects of exclusion. Art and social sciences can give voice to the voiceless. Especially young social aware poets can give us a clear view of the real social effect of the financial consequences. - David Graeber

[@alanchriston6806]

Fabulous Discussion from Giants 😊

[@carsongeorge8014]

This introduction gal is so nervous to intro these brilliant guests. I don’t blame her. I’d be the same way.

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there's 8 bit (bzzzzpitpitpipitpit) interference signal as David Graeber explains common problems faced by common people, inside a collapsing system.

[@demonaxdemonax7942]

Rebel Cities (and the book) is a great and insightful book. It help us focus politically. So Harvey, of today, less Marxology. and more on urban radicalism. Graeber is an anarchist ?

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[@kavvayistories]

Adieu David Graeber

[@ElizabethRudderow13]

This is so exciting but what tf is graeber wearing lol

[@MrMjwoodford]

Stop the flow of the city? Man the barricades!!!