A memorial games jam for David Graeber: itch.io/jam/intergalac… "The theme: 'live as if you were already free.' Make a game jam inspired by David Graeber's work, by anarchism, by revolutionary hope."
I'm going to thread a few relevant resources! David Graeber talks about Douglas Adams's Restaurant at the End of the Universe: economicsciencefiction.blogspot.com/2016/06/adams-…
Here @BluejoWalton writes about Graeber's Debt and writing SFF. "One of the problems with writing science fiction and fantasy is creating truly different societies. We tend to change things but keep other things at societal defaults." tor.com/2012/04/16/the…
Here @BlckCatBlckSky explores articulating complex gift and honor dynamics within a Powered-by-the-Apocalypse framework: blackskyredvisitor.com/2020/06/14/pbt… #ttrpg #pbta
... which is partly inspired by DnD-ifying The Art of Not Being Governed: falsemachine.blogspot.com/2015/01/strang…
'Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You.' libcom.org/library/are-yo…
Debt: The First 5,000 Years libcom.org/files/__Debt__… One of the many great things about this book is that it showcases the amazing variety of historical economic arrangements, a variety left out of (say) most fantasy games
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology: abahlali.org/files/Graeber.… A beautifully suggestive pamphlet partly about levelling mechanisms (how does an egalitarian society protect its egalitarianism?), and also about projecting or sublimating violence into a realm of fantasy ...
Utopia of Rules: libcom.org/files/David_Gr… I haven't actually read this one, but it's about bureaucracy and structural violence and other things and looks very interesting.
On Kings (Graeber and Marshall Sahlins): haubooks.org/wp-content/upl… "... there is at the same time a mutually constitutive relation between the king’s containment and his power: the very taboos that constrain him are also what render him a transcendent metabeing."
J.K. Gibson-Graham: A Postcapitalist Politics becomingpoor.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/gibson… 
Here's an article focusing on the barter myth specifically (some overlap with material in Debt). nakedcapitalism.com/2011/09/david-… Gunwinggu's dzamalag:
The decolonising utopia reading / resource list is also just excellent to throw in there at the intersection of anarchism, speculative culture, activism, and play: utopia.ac/resources/deco…
On modes of production: "The division between slavery, feudalism & capitalism was clearly designed to describe class relations in ancient, medieval & modern Europe, respectively. It was never clear how to apply the approach to other parts of the world." libcom.org/files/graeber_…
An extract from Graeber's The Democracy Project thebaffler.com/salvos/a-pract…
And an article by @KateMeakin1 about lived utopianism, play, and other things, touching on Graeber and Occupy: utopia.ac/reclaiming-uto…
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