- Bureaucracy, Social aspects, Imagination, Stupidity
"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 is it really a cipher for state violence? To answer these questions, anthropologist David Graeber ... traces the peculiar and unexpected ways we relate to bureaucracy today, and reveals how it shapes our lives in ways we may not even notice"--Jacket.
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Contemporary, spare, cool and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- David Graeber
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- 商周出版, Melville House, Melville House Publishing
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9789864770052
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**David Rolfe Graeber** (/ˈɡreɪbər/; February 12, 1961 – September 2, 2020) was an American anthropologist, anarchist activist and author known for his books *Debt: The First 5000 Years* (2011), *The Utopia of Rules* (2015) and *Bullshit Jobs: A Theory* (2018). He was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. As an assistant professor and associate professor of anthropology at Yale from 1998–2007 he specialised in theories of value and social theory. The university's decision not to rehire him when he would otherwise have become eligible for tenure sparked an academic controversy, and a petition with more than 4,500 signatures. He went on to become, from 2007–13, Reader
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