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The Utopia of Rules "On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy"

The Utopia of Rules "On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy"

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  • ISBN:9781612194486
  • Editorial: Melville House Publishing
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  • Nº Pág.:261
  • Idiomas:Ingles,Inglés

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Four years ago David Graeber soared into the intellectual firmament as author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years. It was an amazing debut - conversational, pugnacious, propulsive - and if it was a bit blurred, that was perhaps only to be expected of a tale told from such a height above history.

This new book, coming so soon after Graebers dramatic first success and its 2013 follow-up, The Democracy Project: A History, A Crisis, A Movement, doesnt have the same thematic simplicity, however much at first sight it looks like another timely polemic addressing something that is arguably as significant a conundrum of our times as money. (It seems strange, incidentally, that the sociologists of knowledge have never written a sociology of stupidity. Would that they had, and thereby turned their trade into an instrument of self-knowledge, giving it the moral force the discipline so signally has lacked, except at the hands of its earliest begetters.)

Graeber, an anthropologist, cut his teeth on fieldwork in Madagascar. The personal experience that suffuses this book, as with The Democracy Project, is the time he spent as a prominent voice in the Occupy movement and World Trade Organization protests in Wall Street and Seattle, urging, in the accents of the hapless, immortal old American Left, new forms of organisation as expression of old ethical preferences.

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