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* Book: The Utopia of Rules. David Graeber. 2015. As usual, a landmark book, this time the authors tackles the history of bureaucracy and the state-corporate nexus. Excerpted from David Graeber: “At least since the 19th century, the idea that a market economy is opposed to and independent of government was used to justify laissez-faire … 
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This is an extended summary and discussion of David Graeber's book 'The Utopia of Rules'. It also contains some comments on what the book might offer our analysis of the current failures of radical left politics in contemporary Britain.
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Bureaucracy has become the water in which we swim: its practices, habits and sensibilities engulf us.
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David Graeber's dense book on capitalism and bureaucracy is full of surprising facts
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Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And just how much are our lives being ruined by all this nonstop documentation?
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It’s hard to imagine today, but in the 19th century the most admired and emulated entity in the world was a postal service: the German postal service.
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Bureaucracy has become the water in which we swim: its practices, habits and sensibilities engulf us.
Scoop.it!
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And just how much are our lives being ruined by all this nonstop documentation?
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"I am fascinated by the figure of the anthropologist," author Tom McCarthy wrote this weekend at the Guardian. "What he or she embodies for me is a version of the writer minus all the bullshit, all...
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Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And just how much are our lives being ruined by all this nonstop documentation?
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