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Someone recommended David Graeber's book The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy to me, & I did not expect from the title exactly how incisive a leftist critique it is.
I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to understand the structural violence hidden within bureaucracy.
The book's title and sleeve quote is a quote from one of Graeber's previous, the #UtopiaOfRules
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-the-utopia-of-rules
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RIP David Graeber
#graeber #DavidGraeber #UtopiaOfRules #BullshitJobs #Academia #Research
Indeed, one of the great ironies of the post-Cold War world is that the USA has become a "#UtopiaOfRules" (as #DavidGraeber put it), subjecting everyday people to the state-run bureacracies that the USAUSAUSA set endlessly ridiculed the USSR for:
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看完bullshit jobs之后 就一直想读Greaber的其他书 正好这本出了简中版
一打开我就疯狂划线
感觉仿佛把每一句都划了
一本书没有空白一样
对官僚主义的吐槽真的太深得我心了
还分析了为什么越来越没有人研究官僚主义
因为大家都深陷其中 不能自拔
不论政府机构 还是私人企业
都是天下乌鸦一般黑 五十步笑百步的感觉
每一段我都狂拍大腿 说的太对了！
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