VIDEO: David Harvey and David Graeber at CUNY April 25th
At last, video of Verso's April 25th, 2012 talk between David Harvey and David Graeber at CUNY Graduate Center's Center for Place, Culture and Politics. Harvey's Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution was published just this spring and Graeber's exhaustive Debt: The First 5,000 Years continues to garner much-deserved praise. Respectively two of the foremost theorists of Marxist geography and the Occupy movement, Harvey and Graeber's conversation touched on Murray Bookchin, El Alto's 2003 and 2005 uprisings, the explosion of Chile's student movement just last year, the commons, inclusive versus exclusive hierarchies, the hidden history of US "democracy," alternatives to capitalism and, of course, Occupy Wall Street.
Every minute of their conversation is stimulating, rigorous—and inspiring. Many thanks to CUNY Graduate Center, Melville House and all those who turned out to the discussion.
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I'm starting to translate Harvey's provocative book into Turkish, which I consider as a `relief work` from the extraterrestrial heat surrounding us in a so-called touristic city utterly exhausted and exhaustive of all aspirations to everyday radical practices, such as walking on the sidewalks--which are taken over by motorcyclists and uncontainable expansion of trade, added to the utter absence of trees--let alone transport by human muscles, aka bikes, or even more unthinkably radical practices such as recycling plastic bottles, paper plates, whole lotta tourist waste...
So exhausted and with a fresh energy I'm hoping to make some headway in the translation beginning today, and have this tiny request from you: my Turkish publisher, Metis, seems to have received only one curtesy copy for initially reviewing the book. Perhaps you'd be so kind as to provide the translator an extra one, therewith to help elevate and counter the above mentioned demoralizing work conditions, tourism, unrestraint native-participant sell-off of nature and human values, etc.
best regards,
Ayse Temiz
Kusadasi, Turkey