David Graeber: The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy,Melville House
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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.
Leaping from the ascendance of right-wing economics to the hidden meanings behind Sherlock Holmes and Batman, The Utopia of Rules
is at once a powerful work of social theory in the tradition of
Foucault and Marx, and an entertaining reckoning with popular culture
that calls to mind Slavoj Zizek at his most accessible.
An essential book for our times, The Utopia of Rules is
sure to start a million conversations about the institutions that rule
over us—and the better, freer world we should, perhaps, begin to imagine
for ourselves.
Life without bureaucracy sounds wonderful. But are states always and only repressive?
John Gray Guardian Wednesday 6 May 2015
Elena Molinari Avvenire 18 novembre 2015
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