The Utopia of Rules
On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
(Sprache: Englisch)
From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so...
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so...
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From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives 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.
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ContentsIntroduction: The Iron Law of Liberalism and the Era of Total Bureaucratization
1. Dead Zones of the Imagination: An Essay on Structural Stupidity
2. Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit
3. The Utopia of Rules, or Why We Really Love Bureaucracy After All
4. Appendix: On Batman and the Problem of Constituent Power
Notes
Autoren-Porträt von David Graeber
David Graeber, geb. 1961 in den Vereinigten Staaten, unterrichtete bis zu seiner umstrittenen Entlassung 2007 als Anthropologe in Yale und lehrt seither am Goldsmith-College in London. Er ist bekennender Anarchist und Mitglied der "Industrial Workers of the World". Sein Vater hat im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg gekämpft, und er selbst hat fast zwei Jahre in einer direkte Demokratie praktizierenden Gemeinschaft auf Madagaskar gelebt. Graeber ist ein Vordenker der Occupy-Bewegung.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: David Graeber
- 2015, 272 Seiten, Maße: 14,4 x 22,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Melville House
- ISBN-10: 1612194486
- ISBN-13: 9781612194486
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.02.2015
Sprache:
Englisch
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