Klett-Cotta interview about anarchism and bureaucracy
8 Apr 2016
David Graeber, Bureaucracy
Nachgefragt: David Graeber, recorded by Heiner Wittmann for the blog of Klett-Cotta, in Stuttgart
What is anarchism? Is there an anarchist anthropology? There could possibly be a marxist anthropology, because marxism is a theoretical discourse about revolutionary strategy. However anarchism is more an ethical discourse about revolutionary practice.
The interview touches upon different aspects of the book “The Utopia of Rules”: the structure of violence, the irony that in post-USSR they had more functionaries than they had before, how video games and social media have a statistical bureaucracy for their functionality, and the idea that university is now a bureaucratic function — students don’t go to the faculty; they go to university administration.