The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
Brooklyn: Melville House, 2016. Later printing. Paperback. 261pp. [20.75 cm] Pink and white wraps with black text. New. Item #59429
ISBN: 9781612195186
From the publisher:
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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