STAFF PICKS: David Graeber / Bureaucracy and Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber
Jonathan
Jul 19, 202626 April 2022
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Dan replays two interviews Chuck did with the late, great David Graeber, the first about his book on bureaucracy "The Utopia of Rules," the second on the book "Bullshit Jobs." https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/the-utopia-of-rules/ https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Bullshit-Jobs/David-Graeber/978
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This transcript is a radio interview and retrospective centered on David Graeber’s critiques of bureaucracy, financialization, and meaningless work. It connects his ideas to Occupy, global justice, neoliberal privatization, and Rojava, arguing that much of modern life is shaped by public-private systems of control rather than true markets or democracy.
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