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Events
28 May, 2021 – David Graeber The Utopia of Rules, chapter 3, 5:00pm to 6:30pm
We are hosting a reading group to discuss the work of David Graeber. On 28 May, we will discuss The Utopia of Rules. We will read chapter 3.
Reviews
Politics
David Graeber is an anthropologist and anarchist who teaches at the London School of Economics. He was a leader of the Occupy Wall Street movement and, unlike many left-wing academics,...
The Utopia of Rules – David Graeber
Editor’s Note: The following review was the result of an extended email exchange between Sarah Neilson and editor Jesse Miller. For more on David Graeber, the politics of play, and assumption-making in critical thought, you can read their conversation below the review.
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy review – paperwork as a tool of repression
Occupy Wall Street activist David Graeber argues that the right is responsible for red tape in this bleak yet persuasive collection of essays
THE UTOPIA OF RULES
ON TECHNOLOGY, STUPIDITY, AND THE SECRET JOYS OF BUREAUCRACY
A sharp, oddly sympathetic and highly readable account of how big government works—or doesn’t work, depending on your point...
The Utopia of Rules
On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy.
This book is a collection of essays. Each attempt to start a conversation about what directions a left-wing critique of bureaucracy might take. The first essay focuses on violence; the second, on technology; the third, on rationality and value.
This book is translated to: Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
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