About the Author

Stevphen Shukaitis is a research fellow at the University of Leicester Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy. He is a member of Ever Reviled Records, the Autonomedia Editorial Collective, and the Planetary Autonomist Network. He seeks to develop non-vanguardist forms of social research as part of the global conspiracy against neoliberalism. David Graeber is an anthropologist and activist who currently teaches at the University of London and has been active in direct-action groups, including the Direct Action Network, People's Global Action, and Anti-Capitalist Convergence. He is the author of Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, Towards an Anthropological Theory of Value, and Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar.