TY - BOOK AU - Graeber,David TI - The utopia of rules: on technology, stupidity, and the secret joys of bureaucracy SN - 9781612195186 AV - HM806 .G73 2015 PY - 2015///] CY - Brooklyn PB - Melville House KW - Bureaucracy KW - Social structure KW - Power (Social sciences) KW - Liberalism KW - Technological innovations KW - Social aspects KW - Imagination KW - Stupidity KW - Bureaucratie KW - eclas KW - Réglementation KW - Aspects socio-économiques KW - Sciences sociales KW - Libéralisme KW - fast KW - Bürokratie KW - gnd KW - Soziologische Theorie KW - Technische Innovation KW - Macht KW - Liberalismus KW - ram KW - Structure sociale KW - Pouvoir (sciences sociales) KW - Innovations KW - Aspect social KW - Bêtise KW - Byråkrati KW - sao KW - Makt (samhällsvetenskap) N1 - Some chapters previously published in various sources in 2012; Includes bibliographical references; 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 N2 - "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 ER -