* Book: The Utopia of Rules. David Graeber. 2015. As usual, a landmark book, this time the authors tackles the history of bureaucracy and the state-corporate nexus. Excerpted from David Graeber: “At least since the 19th century, the idea that a market economy is opposed to and independent of government was used to justify laissez-faire …
Title: The Rise and Fall of an Online Project: Is Bureaucracy Killing Efficiency in Open Knowledge Production? Authors: Nicolas Jullien (LUSSI-iSchool, ICI-M@rsouin, Télécom Bretagne), Kevin Crowst...
Our duty is to face the future with the eagerness to be part of it and give it a different shape: that's why we need a new ethic of work, one which is in line with the post-industrial age, an age o...
It’s hard to imagine today, but in the 19th century the most admired and emulated entity in the world was a postal service: the German postal service.
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 just how much are our lives being ruined by all this nonstop documentation?
David Graeber's The Utopia of Rules is the latest book review. It's really an examination of bureaucracy: its history, its impacts on our lives, and its links to the ...
The twentieth century produced a very clear sense of what the future was to be, but we now seem unable to imagine any sort of redemptive future. How did this...
This is an extended summary and discussion of David Graeber's book 'The Utopia of Rules'. It also contains some comments on what the book might offer our analysis of the current failures of radical left politics in contemporary Britain.
Giles Fraser: Loose canon: Because bureaucracy is ubiquitous these days, we mostly don’t even notice it. The rich can buy their way out of it, so the left must lead the fightback
“To transform bureaucratic hierarchies into technology driven networks” (Fred Wilson). That is what the actors from the GETDecentralized community want to achieve. Their next meetings are in San Francisco and Paris.
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