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The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
David GraeberTo answer these questions, anthropologist David Graeber—one of the most prominent & provocative thinkers working today—takes a journey through ancient & modern history to trace the peculiar & fascinating evolution of bureaucracy over the ages.
He starts in the ancient world, looking at how early civilizations were organized & what traces early bureaucratic systems have left in the ethnographic literature. He then jets forward to the nineteenth century, where systems we can easily recognize as modern bureaucracies come into being.
In some areas of life—like with the modern postal systems of Germany & France—these bureaucracies have brought tremendous efficiencies to modern life. But Graeber argues that there is a much darker side to modern bureaucracy that is rarely ever discussed. Indeed, in our own “utopia of rules,” freedom & technological innovation are often the casualties of systems that we only faintly understand.
Provocative & timely, the book is a powerful look & history of bureaucracy over the ages & its power in shaping the world of ideas.
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David Graeber was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. He wrote Debt: The First 5,000 Years & Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, among many others books, & co-author with David Wengrow of the New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything. An iconic thinker & renowned activist, his early efforts in Zuccotti Park made Occupy Wall Street an era-defining movement. He died on September 2, 2020.
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