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

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

Title remainder

on technology, stupidity, and the secret joys of bureaucracy

Statement of responsibility

David Graeber

Creator

• Graeber, David

Subject

• Imagination -- Social aspects
• Liberalism
• Power (Social sciences)
• Bureaucracy
• Stupidity
• Technological innovations -- Social aspects
• Social structure

Language

eng

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"----

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YDXCP

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography