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The utopia of rules : on technology, stupidity, and the secret joys of bureaucracy
- Title
- The utopia of rules : on technology, stupidity, and the secret joys of bureaucracy / David Graeber.
- Author
- Graeber, David
- Publication
- Brooklyn : Melville House, [2015]
- ©2015
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- 261 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm
- 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.
- Subjects
- Liberalism
- Imagination > Aspect social
- Technische Innovation
- Imagination > Social aspects
- Stupidity
- Soziologische Theorie
- Makt (samhällsvetenskap)
- Pouvoir (sciences sociales)
- Byråkrati
- Bureaucratie
- Aspects socio-économiques
- Social structure
- Bêtise
- Bürokratie
- Technological innovations > Social aspects
- Réglementation
- Liberalismus
- Power (Social sciences)
- Bureaucracy
- Innovations > Aspect social
- Libéralisme
- Structure sociale
- Sciences sociales
- Macht
- Note
- Some chapters previously published in various sources in 2012.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781612193748
- 1612193749
- 9781612195186
- 1612195180
- 1612194486
- 9781612194486
- 9781612193755 (canceled/invalid)
- 1612193757 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781612194486 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015452411
- OCLC
- ocn879582444
- 879582444
- SCSB-9398587
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries