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BOOK
Title The utopia of rules : on technology, stupidity, and the secret joys of bureaucracy / David Graeber
Imprint Brooklyn : Melville House, [2015]
©2015

LIBRARY / MAP CALL NUMBER STATUS MESSAGE
 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 3 Facklitteratur 300-399  302 engelska    DUE 26-03-18  ---
Descript 261 pages illustrations, map 23 cm
Note Some chapters previously published in various sources in 2012
Includes bibliographical references
"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
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
Subject Byråkrati
Makt (samhällsvetenskap)
Bureaucracy
Social structure
Power (Social sciences)
Liberalism
Stupidity
Technological innovations -- Social aspects
Imagination -- Social aspects
Classmark 302.3/5
Oaba
ISBN/ISSN 9781612193748 hardcover
1612193749 hardcover
9781612193755 (ebook)
1612193757 (ebook)
9781612194486 (paperback; export edition)
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