The Utopia of Rules : : on Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
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Some chapters previously published in various sources in 2012.
Introduction : the iron law of liberalism and the era of total bureaucratization -- Dead zones of the imagination : an essay on structural stupidity -- Of flying cars and the declining rate of profit -- The utopia of rules, or why we really love bureaucracy after all -- Appendix. On Batman and the problem of constituent power.
"Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And is it really a cipher for state violence? To answer these questions, anthropologist David Graeber ... traces the peculiar and unexpected ways we relate to bureaucracy today, and reveals how it shapes our lives in ways we may not even notice"--Jacket.
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PUBLISHED
Brooklyn : Melville House, [2015]
Year Published: 2015
Description: 261 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781612193748
1612193749
SUBJECTS
Bureaucracy.
Social structure.
Power (Social sciences).
Liberalism.
Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
Imagination -- Social aspects.
Stupidity.