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6 days ago
6 days ago
In the last full chapter of the book, the Davids return to Turtle Island to argue against the inevitability of domination and to give historical context for the indigenous critique of European society.
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Friday Mar 08, 2024
Why the State Has No Origin, Part 2 :: The Dawn of Everything, Chapter 10
Friday Mar 08, 2024
Friday Mar 08, 2024
Hungry ancestors, play kings, and copious cosmetics. The conclusion of our discussion of Chapter 10.
Mentioned:
One River book by Wade Davis
The King Must Die book by Mary Renault
Cover image from a fresco at Knossos, on the island of Crete.
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Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
Why the State Has No Origin, Part 1 :: The Dawn of Everything, Chapter 10
Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
Regarding history, teleology and the state, and the three elementary forms of power. Our discussion of the first half of Chapter 10.
Cover image from a detail of the Raimondi Stele from Chavín de Huántar, Peru.
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Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
Hiding in Plain Sight :: The Dawn of Everything, Chapter 9
Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
We finish discussing Chapter 8 and move on to Chapter 9. More early cities, and a type of democracy uncovered in Spanish chronicles of Mesoamerica.
Mentioned:
Henry Corbin, French scholar of Islamic philosophy, and his book Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi
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Sunday Jan 14, 2024
Imaginary Cities :: The Dawn of Everything, Chapter 8
Sunday Jan 14, 2024
Sunday Jan 14, 2024
Cities emerge around the world. What are they like? We return to discuss Chapter 8 of our book.
Mentioned:
Mountain Gardens website, instagram
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Saturday Oct 21, 2023
The Ecology of Freedom :: The Dawn of Everything, Chapter 7
Saturday Oct 21, 2023
Saturday Oct 21, 2023
We return from halftime to talk more about early farmers and the vast middle ground that spans foraging and agriculture.
Mentioned:
"Low Level Food Production" by Bruce Smith, 2001.
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Tuesday Sep 19, 2023
Against the Grain by James C. Scott :: Book Report
Tuesday Sep 19, 2023
Tuesday Sep 19, 2023
We continue our halftime break in our reading of The Dawn of Everything to review and summarize a book that is cited in Dawn, and written by a friend and colleague of the Davids. This book is Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by James C. Scott. Among other virtues, it provides some possible answers to questions that Graeber and Wengrow persistently dodge.
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Friday Sep 01, 2023
BONUS: Sympathy for the Serpent :: Liberatory Readings of the Garden of Eden
Friday Sep 01, 2023
Friday Sep 01, 2023
We go slightly off-book for this episode to explore whether we can find something to affirm in the Garden of Eden myth.
Mentioned:
Elaine Pagels, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent
Per Faxneld, Satanic Feminism
Peter Grey, Lucifer: Princeps
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Wednesday Jul 26, 2023
Gardens of Adonis :: The Dawn of Everything, Chapter 6
Wednesday Jul 26, 2023
Wednesday Jul 26, 2023
A close look at the early days of cultivation and domestication.
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Mentioned on the show:
"Engels was Right: Early Human Kinship was Matrilineal" by Chris Knight
"Anatomy of a Backlash: Concerning the Work of Marija Gimbutas" by Charlene Spretnak
"The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari" by Darshana Narayanan
A random mainstream anthropology site delineating "horticulture" as a subsistence strategy
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Saturday Jun 24, 2023
Many Seasons Ago, Part 2 :: The Dawn of Everything, Chapter 5
Saturday Jun 24, 2023
Saturday Jun 24, 2023
The rest of our discussion of Chapter 5. Towards the end of this episode we share thoughts about where the book has taken us so far.
- Mentioned on the show:
"Why foragers choose acorns before salmon: Storage, mobility, and risk
in aboriginal California" by Shannon Tushingham and Robert Bettinger
Jasper Bernes' essay on Revolutionary Motives
- For more on wild tending in California and in general:
Tending the Wild by M. Kat Anderson
Wild Tending series at the Ground Shots podcast
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