The utopia of rules : on technology, stupidity, and the secret joys of bureaucracy

By:

Graeber, David

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Brooklyn Melville House 2015Description: 261pISBN:

9781612195186(pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

302.35 GRA

Summary: "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."

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Book	Plaksha University Library	Social Science	302.35 GRA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		004378

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"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."

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