The utopia of rules : on technology, stupidity, and the secret joys of bureaucracy
Graeber, David
The utopia of rules : on technology, stupidity, and the secret joys of bureaucracy - Brooklyn Melville House 2015 - 261p.
https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/the-utopia-of-rules/
"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, the anthropologist David Graeber—one of our most important and provocative thinkers—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…though he also suggests that there may be something perversely appealing—even romantic—about bureaucracy."
9781612195186(pbk.)
Bureaucracy
Social structure
Technological innovations--Social aspects
302.35 / GRA
The utopia of rules : on technology, stupidity, and the secret joys of bureaucracy - Brooklyn Melville House 2015 - 261p.
https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/the-utopia-of-rules/
"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, the anthropologist David Graeber—one of our most important and provocative thinkers—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…though he also suggests that there may be something perversely appealing—even romantic—about bureaucracy."
9781612195186(pbk.)
Bureaucracy
Social structure
Technological innovations--Social aspects
302.35 / GRA