Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations, Collective Theorization pdf

大卫·罗尔夫·格雷伯 (David Rolfe Graeber) 是一位常驻伦敦的人类学家和无政府主义活动家，他最著名的作品可能是他 2011 年的著作《债务：前 5000 年》。 他是伦敦经济学院人类学教授。 1998 年至 2007 年，他在耶鲁大学担任人类学助理教授和副教授，专攻价值理论和社会理论。 大学决定在他有资格获得终身教职时不重新雇用他，这引发了一场学术争议，以及一份有超过 4,500 个签名的请愿书。 2007-13 年，他继续成为伦敦大学金史密斯学院社会人类学的读者。 他的活动包括抗议 2001 年在魁北克市举行的第三届美洲峰会和 2002 年在纽约市举行的世界经济论坛。 格雷伯是占领华尔街运动的领军人物，有时被认为创造了“我们是 99%”的口号。

Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations, Collective Theorization pdf 大卫格雷伯

What is the relationship of radical theory to movements for social change? In a world where more and more global struggles are refusing vanguard parties and authoritarian practices, does the idea of the detached intellectual, observing events from on high, make sense anymore? In this powerful and unabashedly militant collection, over two dozen academic authors and engaged intellectuals—including Antonio Negri and Colectivo Situaciones—provide some challenging answers. In the process, they redefine the nature of intellectual practice itself. The twenty essays cover a broad range: embedded intellectuals in increasingly corporatized universities, research projects in which factory workers and academics work side by side, revolutionary ethnographies of the Global Justice Movement, meditations on technology from the branches of a Scottish tree-sit. What links them all is a collective and expansive re-imagining of engaged intellectual work in the service of social change. In a cultural climate in where right-wing watchdog groups seem to have radical academics on the run, this unapologetic anthology is a breath of fresh air.