R.I.P. David Graeber, Academic/Activist

Professor of Anthropology David Graeber passed away unexpectedly this past Wednesday. If you don’t know the name, you should. He was active in the Occupy movement (which sometimes seems a lifetime ago) and wrote about “debt” and what he called “bullshit jobs.”

Here’s his obituary from the NYT and a series of testimonials from The New York Review of Books.

The art in the NYRB column is by Molly Crabapple, another important artist/activist/writer, whom you should also know