Anthropologist David Graeber explores the rise of useless work under late capitalism / early managerial feudalism - as a phenomenon everyone but CEOs and economists understand perfectly well, and as a grim reminder that we could all probably be doing something (or nothing!) better than with our time

David Graeber, Laura Bear and Nayanika Mathur were recently in conversation at the London School of Economics on the anthropology of bureaucracy. They reflected on the connections between their recent publications that propose a new anthropology of bureaucracy.