Talking Shop 5: Debt

dublin | education | event notice Tuesday July 05, 2011 12:13 by Mick - Campaign for the Old Dublin City Arts Building campaigncityarts at gmail dot com

Seomra Spraoi, July 11 7pm

This next Talking Shop will focus on the idea and the politics of debt.

The two suggested texts, which should provide a starting point for discusion, are David Graebers 'Debt: The First Five Thousand Years' and the recent Documentary by Katerina Kitidi and Aris Hatzistefanou called 'Debtocracy'.

The Graeber text gives a breif history of debt from an anthropological point of view, conecting its inception to a history of slavery and state sanctioned violence. The documentary focuses on Greeces particular crisis in the context of the recent history of IMF and World Bank intervention. Particular highlights are an explanation of the concept of 'odious debt' and Equador's unorthodox handling of their sovereign debt in 2006.

David Graeber, 'Debt: The First Five Thousand Years': http://www.metamute.org/en/content/debt_the_first_five_...years

Debtocracy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKpxPo-lInk