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The utopia of rules : on technology, stupidity, and the secret joys of bureaucracy / David Graeber.

By: Publisher: Brooklyn : Melville House, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 261 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781612195186
  • 1612195180
  • 9781612193748
  • 1612193749
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HM806 .G73 2015
Contents:
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.
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, 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Non-fiction Main Collection HM 806 .G73 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 5162290

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.

"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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