Bullshit, like paper waste, accumulates in offices with the inevitability of February snow. Justification reports: What are these? Nobody knows. And yet they pile up around you, Xerox-warmed, to be not-read. Best-practices documents? Anybody’s guess, really, including their authors’. Some people thought that digitization would banish this nonsense.
Articles
Is Your Job Bullshit? On Capitalism’s Endless Busywork
David Graeber had a hypothesis. The anthropologist grew up working-class in New York, and while his scholarship garnered accolades, he’s never felt at home in the world of academia.
Radio: on the meaning & meaningless of our bullshit jobs
This is Hell Radio
How Useful Is the Aggressive Fare Enforcement of Link Light Rail?
The one, possibly only thing, I dislike about Vancouver BC's SkyTrain is that it's completely run by machines. I have used the system over 100 times in the downtown area, and only once have seen a human working at a station as an employee of the rail system.
Punching the Clock
Harper’s Magazine
Are You in a BS Job? In Academe, You’re Hardly Alone
I would like to write about the bullshitization of academic life: that is, the degree to which those involved in teaching and academic management spend more and more of their time involved in tasks which they secretly — or not so secretly — believe to be entirely pointless.
Videos
On Bullshit Jobs
at the RSA
David Graeber on Bullshit Jobs
Penguin Books UK
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Bullshit Jobs
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