- Mar 2022
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adjacentpossible.substack.com adjacentpossible.substack.com
- Jan 2022
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adjacentpossible.substack.com adjacentpossible.substack.com
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www.focaalblog.com www.focaalblog.com
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http://www.focaalblog.com/2021/12/22/chris-knight-wrong-about-almost-everything/
Chris Knight is a senior research fellow in anthropology at University College London, where he forms part of a team researching the origins of our species in Africa. His books include Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture (1991) and Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics (2016).
Another apparent refutation of Graeber and Wengrow.
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www.persuasion.community www.persuasion.community
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https://www.persuasion.community/p/a-flawed-history-of-humanity
David A. Bell teaches history at Princeton and is the author, most recently, of Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020).
Critique of Graeber and Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything
Where is he right? Wrong? How does this dovetail with the evidence within the book?
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www.dawnofeverything.industries www.dawnofeverything.industries
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www.noemamag.com www.noemamag.com
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Unfortunately, the ideas most economists use have been too influenced by “methodological individualism,” rather than the more scientifically supported view of us as a super-social, super-cooperative, intensely interdependent species. Often, this economics-style individualism is of the Thomas Hobbes variety, which paints humans in “a state of nature,” waging a “war of all against all.”
This statement in the framing of biology is quite similar to the framing in anthropology and archaeology that David Graeber and David Wengrow provide in The Dawn of Everything.
Perhaps we should be saying (especially from a political perspective): Cooperation is King!
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nymag.com nymag.com
- Dec 2021
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www.journaldumauss.net www.journaldumauss.net