David Graeber, anthropologist and anarchist author of bestselling books on bureaucracy and economics including Bullshit Jobs: A Theory and Debt: The First 5,000 Years, has died aged 59. We will all miss him hugely.”Tom Penn, Graeber’s editor at Penguin Random House, said the publishing house was “devastated” and called Graeber “a true radical, a pioneer in everything that he did”. David Graeber interview: ‘So many people spend their working lives doing jobs they think are unnecessary’ Read moreIn 2005, Yale decided against renewing his contract a year before he would have secured tenure. | David Graeber Read moreAn anarchist since his teens, Graeber was a supporter of the Kurdish freedom movement and the “remarkable democratic experiment” he could see in Rojava, an autonomous region in Syria. He was a pivotal figure in the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011 – though he denied that he had come up with the slogan “We are the 99%”, for which he was frequently credited.

Source: The Guardian September 03, 2020 15:19 UTC