dgi – benjamin palof – 11 14 25
Benjamin Paloff on Bakhtin’s Adventure – 56 min video – nov 14 2025
via bsky post [https://bsky.app/profile/davidgraeberinst.bsky.social/post/3m5mnpizmh22a]:
As part of our work on David Graeber’s favorite author, we held a talk with the academic Benjamin Paloff about the work of the author – Mikhail Bakhtin. Here is the full video. www.youtube.com/live/xOLDVq_..
from dgi site:
After celebrating the 5th Carnival for David, we will revive and expand the Museum of Care’s reading group on Mikhail Bakhtin. This group has always been about exploring Bakhtin’s ideas on dialogue, carnival, and collective imagination — themes that continue to inspire us.
We’ll start with a lecture by Benjamin Paloff on the 14th of November 2025 4PM London time (3PM UTC). Benjamin is a writer and academic whose latest book, Bakhtin’s Adventure: An Essay on Life without Meaning, examines Bakhtin’s thought, linking narrative, ethics, and freedom through the lens of “adventure. Benjamin’s talk will help us dive back into Bakhtin together and explore how his thought resonates with our current moment. We hope this mix of lecture and collective reading will make the group more alive and open — a space to think, read, and imagine together.”
missed the livestream.. and for now.. just skimmed a listen/comment-read.. and adding this from benjamin at 56 min:
56 min – b: (talking about what he said is his closest experience to carnivelesque ness 4/20 hash bashes) .. you might consider this as a possibly frivolous test case.. it is possible to transform societal behavior simply by designating a time when it’s ok .. and then you show people it’s not so scary.. and then you show people it’s also not special.. and it’s simply becomes a different way of life..
ie: a sabbatical ish transition ness
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mikhail bakhtin.. scott on bakhtin.. et al
started with museum of care meetings on bakhtin and rabelais and his world
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be you. 