Graeber's Pirate Enlightment -- Cory Doctorow

<p>Although we lost David Graeber several years ago, we are still getting the bittersweet joy of reading new books by him. This week, <a href="https://pluralistic.net/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cory Doctorow</a> joins me to discuss <a href="https://www.flyleafbooks.com/book/9780374610197" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia</em></a>, a short book in which Graeber convincingly melds the oral histories he learned while doing doctoral research in Madagascar with 17th century European tales of a pirate kingdom on Madagascar into a swashbuckling tale of an anarchist pirate confederation.</p><p>For more on pirates, check out my episode with Gabriel Kuhn on the anarchic nature of the golden age of piracy: <a href="https://player.captivate.fm/episode/cea23b51-6d3b-4f42-bf42-2f07fca51868" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://player.captivate.fm/episode/cea23b51-6d3b-4f42-bf42-2f07fca51868</a></p>