David Graeber follows the rules, to the boring / fascinating heart of bureaucracy itself.
David Graeber
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Jul 19, 202622 March 2015
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Anthropologist David Graeber explores the bureaucratic dimension that rules our lives, takes our money, and stretches between the public and private, the right and the left, between capitalism and whatever comes next. David's new book is The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret
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David Graeber argues that modern life is dominated by a hidden public-private bureaucracy that shapes everything from banking and debt to education and global governance. He links this system to financialization, inequality, and weakened democracy, while pointing to Occupy, global justice movements, and Rojava as examples of anti-bureaucratic resistance and collective self-organization.
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