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

By: David GraeberContributor(s): David GraeberMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) LTD | 7/22, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi-110002Publication details: Brooklyn : Melville House 2015Description: 261 pages 23 cmISBN: 9781612195537Subject(s): BureaucracyGenre/Form: Social structure. | Power (Social sciences)DDC classification: 302.35 DAV

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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	SNU LIBRARY	302.35 GRA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		25197
Books	SNU LIBRARY	302.35 GRA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out to Deepti Mulgund (20501517)	11/11/2023 00:00	25198

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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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